Key Indicators for Family Planning Projects

摘要

The paper lists numerous indicators that could be used to monitor and evaluatefamily planning and suggests ten potentially useful for most projects. These ten cover all aspects of a family planning program: program inputs, program capacity and process, program outputs, behavioral outcomes among clients, and long-term demographic outcomes. For a specific project, these ten (or any selection made from the indicators here) need to be supplemented with indicators for other reproductive health services, which will be covered in a subsequent note. As input indicators, the paper suggests (1) popular approval of family planning, a survey-based measure that should be collected from both men and women to indicate the acceptability of contraception, and (2) the female secondary enrollment ratio, perhaps the chief socioeconomic determinant of demand for contraception. To represent program capacity and process, two indicators are proposed: (3) a management information score, as a strategic measure of the organization's institutional capital, and (4) couple-years of protection provided per worker, as a measure of program efficiency.