In News:

• Recently, the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare released Family Planning Vision – 2030 document.

What’s in today’s article:

• About Family Planning Partnership (London Summit, Purpose, FP2020)
• National Family Planning Summit 2022 (Launch of FP2030 vision, Key takeaways, etc.)

Family Planning Partnership:

• In July 2012, the London Summit on Family Planning was held to reignite the global commitment to meeting women’s unmet need for contraception.
• The summit set a goal of reaching 120 million women and girls with modern contraceptives by 2020.
• This summit also launched a new partnership and platform: Family Planning 2020 (FP2020).
  • FP2020 was launched as a global partnership that supports the rights of women and girls to decide, freely, and for themselves, whether, when, and how many children they want to have.
• During 2012-20, India added more than 1.5 crore additional users for modern contraceptives thereby increasing the modern contraceptive use substantially.
• After 2020, this pivotal partnership, centred solely on family planning, was extended in the form of FP2030.
  • FP2030 is the successor to FP2020.

National Family Planning Summit 2022:

• Recently, National Family Planning Summit 2022 was organized by Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
• During the Summit, the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare unveiled the India Family Planning 2030 Vision document.
• The Summit was organized to recognize the achievements of various states/UTs in family planning and create awareness about the importance of family planning.

Family Planning 2030 Commitments:

• Priorities identified
  • Strategies to overcome teenage childbearing, lack of male participation in awareness programmes, migration and lack of access to contraceptives have been identified as priorities by the document.
• Teenage Pregnancies –
  • The document highlights that there has been a steady decline in teenage childbearing, from 7.9% in the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) to 6.8% (NFHS-5).
  • However, high teenage fertility in some areas still remains a cause of concern.
  • Over 118 districts reported high percentage of teenage pregnancies and are mostly concentrated in following states:
    • Bihar (19), West Bengal (15), Assam (13), Maharashtra (13), Jharkhand (10), Andhra Pradesh (7), and Tripura (4).
  • Additionally, over 44% of the districts in India reported high percentage of women marrying before they reach the age of 18.
• Lack of Contraceptives –
  • Modern contraceptive use among married adolescents and young women, although increasing over time, has been rather low.
  • Lack of access to contraceptives had been identified as a priority challenge area.
• Increased participation of Men –
  • The document added that participation of men will be encouraged in the family planning programme.
• Population stabilization –
  • As per the document, the country’s population is expected to continue to grow until mid-century (due to population momentum).
  • However, the population growth will decline substantially.
  • The Central government had recently said in the Parliament that it sought to stabilise the population by 2045.