National Family Planning Advocacy Strategy & Costed Implementation Plan 2020/21 – 2024/25
In Uganda, the demand for family planning among currently married women increased from 54% in 2001 to 67% in 2016. Despite greater progress over the past two decades, more than a quarter (28%) of currently married women and 32% of sexually active unmarried women in Uganda have an unmet need for family planning.
Although more than 75% of Uganda’s households are found in rural areas, the unmet contraceptive need for unmarried women in
rural areas is 35.9 percent higher than 24.8 per cent in urban areas.
Some of the reasons for low family planning service utilization are; services and supplies are not available when they are needed most, limited choices of family planning methods, fear of partner’s opposition, worries of side effects while others lack knowledge about contraceptive use.
Uganda’s total fertility, maternal mortality, and teenage pregnancy rates remain among the highest globally. To counter this and other preventable maternal health-related challenges, the Ministry of Health developed the Family Planning Advocacy Strategy focusing on 14 advocacy issues through multi-sectoral consultations and stakeholder engagements.
The Ministry of Health is committed to scaling up the use of family planning to ensure that every Ugandan of reproductive age can choose when and how many children to have. This would be achieved through; creating an enabling environment for FP through new policies, legislation, strategies and programs; additional resource allocations; and by strengthening existing
structures to match the growing demand, mobilizing public support for initiatives to accelerate and sustain essential actions to improve FP services.
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