SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY

Family Planning constitutes a core preventive intervention that has the potential to improve maternal, infant, and child health through spacing births, therefore averting unplanned pregnancies and preventable birth-related complications. Family planning saves costs that individuals, families and nations incur in providing health services especially to women in the reproductive age (15-49 yrs), and children. Generally, every dollar spent on family planning saves $4, and reduces overall health costs and re-investing the savings to improve other services.