Policies addressing family planning in Pakistan: An overview

Abstract

In Pakistan, Sindh remained second most thickly populated province, there are forty-six million populations of this province, and of that almost half is urban population. The coasted implementation plan is based on population censes of province and prioritized family planning needs accordingly. The objectives of policies in Province are aligned with family planning activities that are visualized as an accord for the government. It is for the first time; Pakistan has developed a method of coasted implementation planning to control births in Sindh Province. The method was closely-held and light-emitting diode by its population welfare department and there is facilitation in the technical area by the funding agencies, and it is also supported by Bill & Malinda Gates Foundation. Almost twenty-eight stakeholders were consulted. There was consultancy sessions conducted with the stakeholders. Using the results framework all the information gathered from the stakeholders was truly analyzed for focus areas assessment, its causes and what better outcome can be expected.