Advance Family Planning Report
In 2012, India set an ambitious goal to spend 10 billion Indian rupees (INR) – approximately US $2 billion – to ensure free family planning services and commodities for 200 million couples seeking contraceptive services. With this ambitious pledge, policymakers committed to move away from a population control approach towards a rights-based family planning program. Despite national level policies aimed at increasing access to quality family planning, many states struggle to implement these policies due to structural and cultural limitations. In this environment, advocacy is vital to transform policy into practice.
The Advance Family Planning (AFP) India initiative has shown that strategic advocacy can address persistent barriers to policy implementation and realize national commitments at scale.
