Family Planning Program

  Family Planning Program (According to Annual Report 2075/76, DoHS, Nepal)



 Ø 1959 AD: Family planning program was initiated in Nepal.

Ø 1959 AD: FPAN (Family Planning Association of Nepal) established and started its activities.

Ø 1965 AD: Government of Nepal adopted a policy to bring equilibrium between population growth and economic growth by emphasizing FP policy.

Ø 1968 AD: Nepal FP and MCH board integrated FP and MCH as basic health care.

Ø 1978 AD: CRS (Contraceptive Retail Price) established.

Ø 1988 AD: Family Planning integrated into general health services in all 75 districts.

Ø 1994 AD: Family Health Division was established.

Ø 1995 AD: MOPE (Ministry of Population and environment) was established family planning and reproductive health.







Ø 1998 AD: National Reproductive Health Strategy is formulated.

Ø 2003 AD: National Safe abortion policy was endorsed.

Ø 2068 BS: MoH / FHD had recently developed the new FP strategy.

Ø 2009 AD: Jaddle provision started instead of norplant.

Ø National Family Planning Program is a component of the reproductive health package and essential health care services under the Nepal Health Sector Programme-2 (2010-2015), the National Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan (2015–2021), the Nepal Health Sector Strategy (2015-2020) and the government’s commitments to Family Planning 2020.

Ø Aim: Main is to ensure that individuals and couples are able to fulfill their reproductive needs by using appropriate family planning methods based on informed choice.

Ø General objective: To improve the health status of all people through accountable and equitable health service delivery system through informed choice to access and use voluntary FP.







Ø Specific objectives

•     To increase access to and utilization of quality FP services which are safe, effective and acceptable to individuals and couples. Special focus is given to increasing access to services in places where the rural, poor, dalit, other marginalized people and those with high unmet need live.

•     To create an enabling environment for increasing access to quality family planning services to men and women

•     To increase demand of family planning services by implementing various behavior change communication strategies

Ø  Policy and strategies

•       Enabling environment

•       Demand generation

•       Service delivery

•       Capacity building

Research and innovation 


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