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  • Title: Centre shares its success in family planning work with the NGOs in the SAARC region.
    Journal: Glimpse; 1995; 17(2):3. PubMed ID: 12289845.
    Abstract:
    In March 1995, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) and the government of Japan sponsored a 2-week international workshop on Family Planning Programmes of NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) in the SAARC Region (South Asia). The purpose of the workshop was to share experiences with family planning and reproductive health of the Matlab and the MCH-FP (maternal and child health-family planning) Extension Projects in urban and rural areas with family planning program managers from NGOs and policy and operations researchers. It also intended to examine those family planning and reproductive health projects of the NGOs in Bangladesh that fostered significant improvement of the national family planning and MCH program in Bangladesh. Participants were presented with effective family planning and MCH program design and strategies to strengthen improved management. The workshop emphasized the emerging norms of quality of care in family planning and reproductive health. NGOs initiated the concept of family planning in Bangladesh in 1953, so they are considered innovators. Accordingly, they are expected to develop designs and models for effective service delivery systems, training, management information system, IEC (information, education, and communication), community participation as well as to set social norms and values for small families. At the workshop, Bangladesh was offered as an example of how innovative NGO activities, sustained partnership between the NGOs and the government, and technical support from ICDDR,B lead to progress in family planning and MCH programs, despite the great poverty and economic stagnation. Contraceptive prevalence has increased from around 7% to almost 45% between 1977 and 1994.
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