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Jan 19, 2021 · In practice, “involving” men and boys in FP can range from encouraging men to be supporters of autonomous FP decision-making among women to more expansive conceptualisations of men as both supporters and users of contraceptive methods, leading change in relation to FP uptake in their families and communities as well as meeting their own reproductive health needs (Hardee et al., 2017; Lohan ...
- Áine Aventin, Martin Robinson, Jennifer Hanratty, Eimear Ruane‐McAteer, Mark Tomlinson, Mark Tomlins...
- 2021
Women’s empowerment – defined as ‘the expansion of people’s ability to make strategic life choices in a context where this ability was previously denied to them’ (Kabeer, 1999, 2001b) – is increasingly considered a key factor affecting family planning and reproductive health outcomes among women.
- Ndola Prata, Ashley Fraser, Megan J. Huchko, Jessica D. Gipson, Mellissa Withers, Shayna Lewis, Eric...
- 10.1017/S0021932016000663
- 2017
- 2017/11
Oct 9, 2021 · Numerous factors influence family planning decision-making in Turkey. Women have a strong preference for traditional methods compared to modern contraceptives. Additionally, religious factors play a leading role in the choice of the particular method, such as withdrawal. Besides, there is a lack of men’s involvement in family planning ...
- Duygu Karadon, Yilmaz Esmer, Bahar Ayca Okcuoglu, Sebahat Kurutas, Simay Sevval Baykal, Sarah Huber-...
- 2021
- Girls and women who are unable to make informed decisions over their own bodies and plan their families face greater health risks. About 23 million girls aged 15 to 19 years in developing countries do not have access to modern contraception, including condoms, birth control pills, and IUDs.
- Girls who become pregnant unintentionally often leave school and miss out on their education. Adolescent girls who become pregnant often leave school due to social stigma or to tend to their child — this is true in both developed and developing countries.
- When women cannot plan their own futures, they lose out on job opportunities. Women represent about 43% of the agricultural workforce in developing countries, and if they had access to the same productive resources as men, they could increase a farm’s yields by as much as 30%.
- Lack of access to sexual and reproductive health services and information most impacts those who are already vulnerable. When it comes to accessing quality, affordable health care, there are visible disparities between and within communities.
A central barrier to couple communication about FP or promoting joint or female-led decision-making was perceived gender and cultural norms that saw women as responsible for family planning and cultural norms that stigmatised men's move away from dominance as the head of the household decision-making (Doyle et al., 2014; Ghule et al., 2015; Harrington et al., 2016).
Given the evidence showing the importance of engaging men and boys in FP programming as a means both of achieving increased family planning uptake and transforming unhealthy gender norms ( Doyle et al., 2018; Shattuck et al., 2011), it is important to ask how donors, implementing partners, and countries are or plan to include this critical approach in future national and sub-national family ...
that family planning enters public discourse. It has also enabled creation of safe spaces for men and couples to make informed decisions and demand for quality family planning services with support from the wider ecosystem. Depending on their focal areas, some programs were able to influence both demand and supply side, while
