Family planning: Smartest investment for achieving the Sustainable Developments Goals for Pakistan

Author:

Wazir MuhammadORCID,Alazar Yilma Melkamu,Kadirov Bakhtior

Abstract

Investing in voluntary family planning services andcommodities is a cost-effective intervention for socioeconomicdevelopment. Every dollar spent on familyplanning results in reductions in child and maternaldeaths, returns in savings in other development areas, andenvironmental benefits. Investments in family planningyield demonstrated social and economic returns in allsectors - food, water, health, and economic development.Our analysis suggests that achieving universal access tocontraception could contribute in the long term toachieving some of the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). We applied the Family Planning-SustainableDevelopment Goals (FP-SDGs) Model that quantifies thebenefits voluntary contraceptive use offers for realizing 13of the SDG indicators which are related to 7 out of the 17SDGs Goals. The model unravelling the multi-sectoralbenefits of contraceptive use and shows that familyplanning can accelerate progress across the 7 SDG.Further, it shows that family planning does not onlyempower women to choose the number, timing, andspacing of their pregnancies but also touches on manymultisectoral determinants vital to sustainabledevelopment. We show that in the case of Pakistan,without universal access to family planning andreproductive health, the impact and effectiveness of otherinterventions will be less, will cost more, and will takelonger to achieve. In the end, we put some keyrecommendations to prioritize family planning as one ofthe strategic national development investments.

Publisher

Center for Open Science

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