Voluntary Family Planning Programs That Respect, Protect, and Fulfill Human Rights
Voluntary Family Planning Programs That Respect, Protect, and Fulfill Human Rights
Voluntary Family Planning Programs That Respect, Protect, and Fulfill Human Rights
PLANNING PROGRAMS
THAT RESPECT, PROTECT,
AND FULFILL HUMAN RIGHTS
A Conceptual Framework
AUGUST 2013
Cover photo credits (clockwise): Davis Dennis, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Shreyans Bhansali
Suggested citation: Hardee, K., K. Newman, L. Bakamjian, J. Kumar, S. Harris, M. Rodriguez, and K. Willson.
2013. Voluntary Family Planning Programs that Respect, Protect, and Fulfill Human Rights: A Conceptual
Framework. Washington, DC: Futures Group.
ISBN: 978-1-59560-015-8
This report is based on research funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The findings and
conclusions contained within are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect positions or policies of
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
August 2013
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ..................................................................................................................iv
Executive Summary................................................................................................................. v
Abbreviations.........................................................................................................................viii
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Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 1
II. Human Rights and Health and the Foundation for Voluntary, Rights-Based Family
Planning .............................................................................................................................. 3
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Protection of the human rights of women and girls, including through policies and mechanisms
to ensure informed choice of a broad range of high-quality, safe, effective, acceptable, and
affordable contraceptive methods; nondiscrimination, and assurance that women and girls are
fully informed and not coerced by any means.
Integration of family planning within the continuum of care for women and children (including
HIV-related services); and development of mechanisms that address barriers to access to
affordable and high-quality information, supplies, and services for family planning, yet are
adaptable and can be expanded to meet a broader set of unmet health and development
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Universal access to voluntary contraceptive information, services, and supplies, within the
context of integrated programmes to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights and
the health-related MDGs.
Equity in policies and program design and implementation, such as the removal of policy and
financial barriers and the development of public and private delivery mechanisms, so that the
poorest and most vulnerable women and girls have ready access to affordable, high-quality
family planning information, supplies, and services.
Empowering women to decide whether and when they wish to become pregnant as well as
how many children they wish to have.
Participatory development of country plans based on consultations with, and the views of, all
stakeholders, especially poor and marginalised girls and women.
Commitment to results, transparency, and accountability to ensure countries and the global
community track progress towards results, as well as [to] monitoring and assessing [the]
protection of human rights and the extent to which the poor and marginalised women and
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OUTCOMES
COUNTRY CONTEXT
Figure 2. Framework for Voluntary Family Planning Programs that Respect, Protect, and Fulfill Human Rights
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Box 1. Treaties, Declarations, and Conventions with Particular Relevance for Reproductive Health and
Rights, Including Family Planning
Treaties (have the status of international law)
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International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
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Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (1969)
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Conference Documents (add content and meaning to human rights)
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