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YEAR: 1983

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Operational responses to the World Population Plan of Action in programmes

of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities in the areas of

fertility, family and family planning.

AUTHORS

United Nations Fund for Population Activities [UNFPA]

SOURCE

[Unpublished] 1983. Presented at the International Conference on Population,

1984, Expert Group on Fertility and Family, New Delhi, January 5-11, 1983. 15 p.

IESA/P/ICP. 1984/EG.I/30

ABSTRACT

The experience of UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) supported programs related to family, fertility and family

planning in developing countries are reviewed on the basis of an analysis of the World Population Plan of Action

(WPPA) recommendations and corresponding UNFPA programs. Among the many recommendations and guidelines

of the WPPA, those dealing with protection of the family, with the improvement of the status of women, with

modernization and fertility, and with the right of individuals and couples to plan their families are of particular

importance to family and fertility. The WPPA recognizes the family as the basic unit of society and recommends that

governments enact legislation and policy to protect the family and conduct periodic reviews of national legislation

with direct bearing on the family and its members. The Plan urges governments to ensure the full participation of

women in the educational, social, economic and political life of their countries on an equal basis with men. The

role of family planning in realizing desired fertility goals is clearly noted in the WPPA, which recommends that

countries encourage appropriate education concerning responsible parenthood and make available advice and the

means of family planning. The Plan also calls for a broad approach to family planning, including the elimination of

involuntary sterility, and invites governments which have family planning programs to consider integrating and

coordinating those services with health and other services. During the 1969-81 period, the Fund has supported a

total of 1240 projects on family, fertility and family planning in 92 countries, of which 31 are in sub-Saharan Africa, 24

in Asia and the Pacific, 25 in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 12 in the Middle East and Mediterranean. This

totals about $394 million, 50.2% of total program resources, or 64% of total assistance to country activities. UNFPA

has supported both research and action programs related to the family, several activities designed to improve

women's position in the family and to bring about a better understanding of fertility. Many UNFPA activities touch on

the reduction of infant, child, and maternal mortality and the improvement of role and status of women. Recognizing

the different needs of countries for the provision of family planning services, the Fund supports all effective means of

delivery of family planning services and the provision of all ethods of fertility regulation technically approved by the

World Health Organization. Changes in ways of thinking about population and experiences that have implications for

the future are reviewed and areas in need of further action are identified. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT5T

2056-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Operational responses to the World Population Plan of

Action in programmes of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities in the areas of fertility, family and family

planning.", is(are) United Nations Fund for Population Activities [UNFPA]. The source of this article is

"[Unpublished] 1983. Presented at the International Conference on Population, 1984, Expert Group on Fertility and

Family, New Delhi, January 5-11, 1983. 15 p. IESA/P/ICP. 1984/EG.I/30". This article was published in 1983 in

English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT5T 2056-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN:

22056

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