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| Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation at the London Summit on Family Planning held in July 2012. |
Nigeria, Tuesday, July 11, 2017, joined other global leaders from around the world, to make bold commitments that will help expand access to family planning to millions of women and girls worldwide.
At least, 37 country governments, 16 private companies and 11 partner organizations, including civil society and private foundations, expectedly announced commitments to accelerate progress on rights-based family planning programmes at the Family Planning Summit holding in London, United Kingdom.
The Summit is co-hosted by the UK Government, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in close partnership with the Family Planning 2020 Secretariat (FP2020).
In parallel with the Summit in London, more than 2, 500 people gathered at 21 satellite events across Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Indonesia, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Thailand and Uganda, demonstrating growing country leadership and support for family planning.
At least, 37 country governments, 16 private companies and 11 partner organizations, including civil society and private foundations, expectedly announced commitments to accelerate progress on rights-based family planning programmes at the Family Planning Summit holding in London, United Kingdom.
The Summit is co-hosted by the UK Government, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in close partnership with the Family Planning 2020 Secretariat (FP2020).
In parallel with the Summit in London, more than 2, 500 people gathered at 21 satellite events across Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Indonesia, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Thailand and Uganda, demonstrating growing country leadership and support for family planning.
The Summit, which aims at building on progress made since the Family Planning Summit in 2012 and to reaffirm international political support for women and girls to be able to decide for themselves whether, when and how many children to have, addresses barriers to progress that are common across many countries. It also professes a wide range of policy and programme commitments to ensure the money invested in family planning goes further.
Nigeria’s Minister of health, Professor Isaac Adewole on the occasion, pledged for the country, in collaboration with its partners and private sector, to achieve a modern contraceptive rate of 27% among all women by 2020.
To this regard, the country has committed to increasing its annual allocation for contraceptives to $4 million USD and to ensure total disbursement of $56 million to the states through its participating in the Global Financing Facility and via international development assistance loans.
Going by information on FP2020 commitments page, Nigeria by this development, will expand implementation of its task-shifting policy to include patent medicine vendors and community volunteers to improve access to family planning services in difficult-to-reach areas and among disadvantaged populations.
The country will use its Minimal Initial Service Package for sexual reproductive health to provide family planning supplies within its national crisis preparedness and response, as well as remove regulatory barriers and scale up access to new contraceptive methods such as sub-cutaneous Depo Medroxyprogesterone Acetate injections (Sayana Press).
To transform its last-mile distribution of health and family planning commodities, Nigeria also pledges to use a push-model system, and to collaborate with the private sector to optimally transport, store and track commodities using an electronic logistics management system.
A new tracking and accountability system will report annually real-time, expenditures for family planning at national and state levels, just as government promises to increase the number of health facilities providing family planning services in each of its states and federal territory to 20,000 while leveraging its 10,000 functional primary health care facilities to raise awareness on family planning.
In this vein, Nigeria will partner with stakeholders and gatekeepers to reduce socio-cultural barriers for family planning services by collaborating with line ministries to ensure the provision of age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health information to youth through the Family Life Health Education Curriculum and youth-friendly services in health facilities and other outlets.
To address financial barriers, government will collaborate with states, donors and other stakeholders on a health insurance scheme to make household family planning expenditures reimbursable.
With over 3.8 million married and sexually active adolescents (ages 15-19) of whom 19% have an unmet need for contraception, Nigeria’s commitment, no doubt, will go a long way in reaching thousands of women and girls with critical reproductive health information.
And if Nigeria was to increase its focus on adolescents, enabling an additional 584,000 adolescent girls to use modern contraception by 2020, a likely 14% reduction in its adolescent birth rate will be experienced.
In all, financial commitments to be announced at the Summit are expected to total at least $2.5billion USD (£1.9billion GBP) by 2020. The majority of the funding – $1.5billion USD (£1.16billion GBP) – has been committed by countries in Asia and Africa.
It was alos gathered that many of FP2020’s 38 partner countries, ranging from Bangladesh and Burkina Faso to India, Indonesia and Uganda, will make renewed commitments to accelerate family planning progress, with four new countries joining the partnership.
Nigeria’s Minister of health, Professor Isaac Adewole on the occasion, pledged for the country, in collaboration with its partners and private sector, to achieve a modern contraceptive rate of 27% among all women by 2020.
To this regard, the country has committed to increasing its annual allocation for contraceptives to $4 million USD and to ensure total disbursement of $56 million to the states through its participating in the Global Financing Facility and via international development assistance loans.
Going by information on FP2020 commitments page, Nigeria by this development, will expand implementation of its task-shifting policy to include patent medicine vendors and community volunteers to improve access to family planning services in difficult-to-reach areas and among disadvantaged populations.
The country will use its Minimal Initial Service Package for sexual reproductive health to provide family planning supplies within its national crisis preparedness and response, as well as remove regulatory barriers and scale up access to new contraceptive methods such as sub-cutaneous Depo Medroxyprogesterone Acetate injections (Sayana Press).
To transform its last-mile distribution of health and family planning commodities, Nigeria also pledges to use a push-model system, and to collaborate with the private sector to optimally transport, store and track commodities using an electronic logistics management system.
A new tracking and accountability system will report annually real-time, expenditures for family planning at national and state levels, just as government promises to increase the number of health facilities providing family planning services in each of its states and federal territory to 20,000 while leveraging its 10,000 functional primary health care facilities to raise awareness on family planning.
In this vein, Nigeria will partner with stakeholders and gatekeepers to reduce socio-cultural barriers for family planning services by collaborating with line ministries to ensure the provision of age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health information to youth through the Family Life Health Education Curriculum and youth-friendly services in health facilities and other outlets.
To address financial barriers, government will collaborate with states, donors and other stakeholders on a health insurance scheme to make household family planning expenditures reimbursable.
With over 3.8 million married and sexually active adolescents (ages 15-19) of whom 19% have an unmet need for contraception, Nigeria’s commitment, no doubt, will go a long way in reaching thousands of women and girls with critical reproductive health information.
And if Nigeria was to increase its focus on adolescents, enabling an additional 584,000 adolescent girls to use modern contraception by 2020, a likely 14% reduction in its adolescent birth rate will be experienced.
In all, financial commitments to be announced at the Summit are expected to total at least $2.5billion USD (£1.9billion GBP) by 2020. The majority of the funding – $1.5billion USD (£1.16billion GBP) – has been committed by countries in Asia and Africa.
It was alos gathered that many of FP2020’s 38 partner countries, ranging from Bangladesh and Burkina Faso to India, Indonesia and Uganda, will make renewed commitments to accelerate family planning progress, with four new countries joining the partnership.
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