Title: Introduction
Course: Level 3 - Family Planning > Section: Family planning service delivery and programme management

The provision of family planning services is dependent upon the integration of services throughout the health care system starting from the community level to specialised referral hospitals. In addition to Outpatient clients, Family Planning counselling and assistance should be made available to post-partum, post-abortion women, individuals with disabilities. Therefore, service delivery strategies need to be tailored to reach populations in different locations, such as urban areas, rural towns, villages and remote areas.

The most common approaches for family planning service delivery comprise primary health care facilities, hospitals, and community-based distribution, which include commercial retail sales, door-to-door service delivery, and workplace distribution.

Family planning programme management is about finding the most effective way to carry out activities related to family planning services, using appropriate human, material, financial and timely resources to reach set targets.

In this study session, you will learn about the most commonly used family planning service delivery strategies practised in Ethiopia, and fundamental aspects of family planning programme management, including planning, monitoring and evaluation