Population and Family Planning : Lessons from Malawi
The objective of the Population and Family Planning (FP) Project, a Learning and Innovation Loan (LIL), was to test the feasibility of a comprehensive and district-wide Community Based Distribution (CBD) approach to Population and Family Planning S...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/12/5533997/population-family-planning-lessons-malawi http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9678 |
| Summary: | The objective of the Population and
Family Planning (FP) Project, a Learning and Innovation Loan
(LIL), was to test the feasibility of a comprehensive and
district-wide Community Based Distribution (CBD) approach to
Population and Family Planning Services in three districts,
thereby increasing the Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR)
for modern methods. Rigorous testing of the hypothesis was
ensured in the design by selecting control districts and
using the same instruments to collect both the baseline and
end of project data. The three rural pilot districts -
Chitipa, Ntchisi and Chiradzulu, represented the three mains
regions of North, South and Central Malawi and were adjacent
to the control ones with which they shared comparable
socio-demographic characteristics such as household
composition (female headship and number of residents),
environmental exposure (water sources, latrines) and
backgrounds of respondents (age, education, marital status). |
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