Help WHO revise its evidence-based family planning guidelines!

Our goal is to ensure that WHO guidelines remain relevant to family planning policies, programmes and service delivery. To that end, we have created a survey to help prioritize topics to review and to determine which new information to add to the guidelines. We welcome other suggestions on how to improve the guidelines.

• Read more and access to survey
  Deadline: 1 June 2013 - Survey also available in French and Spanish.

The Training Resource Package for Family Planning (TRP) is a set of materials designed to support training on family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH). The tools can be used by facilitators and curriculum developers to design, implement and evaluate high-quality training and education in FP/RH. The development has been by led by WHO, UNFPA, USAID and other partners and agencies.

• TRP site

11 July 2012, London, UK -- Organized by the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Family Planning Summit was an opportunity to call for an unprecedented international political commitment and resources to transform the lives of millions of women and girls, which will save lives and help lift families, communities and nations out of poverty.

• WHO's commitment
  pdf, 57kb
  Family Planning Summit
• More information on the Summit
• Video: HRP's contribution for improving access to family planning
  Video

Family planning allows people to attain their desired number of children and determine the spacing of pregnancies. It is achieved through use of contraceptive methods and the treatment of infertility. It is estimated that over 200 million couples do not use contraceptives, despite wanting to space or limit their childbearing.

• See fact sheet
• Contraceptive prevalence
• Unmet need for family planning
• World contracptive use 2010
• Full list of publications on family planning