The Family Planning Association of Nepal (FPAN) established in 1959 turned into a partner individual from the Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in 1960 and undeniable part in 1969. Preceding the foundation of the Association the idea of family arranging was very new and considered as a thing that conflicted with religion, convention and winning social values in Nepal. FPAN, in consonance with the social framework, concentrated on data and instruction as a method for supporting a little family as a standard among the rustic masses. The family arranging program in the administration part picked up energy strictly when the foundation of the Maternal and Child Health Division at the Ministry of Health in 1965 and the starting of the National Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health Project in 1969. It was after FPAN began supplementing and supplementing the national program.
The family arranging benefits in 1960s were constrained to dissemination of condoms, pills and insertion of circles. All exercises were actualized by volunteers on the grounds that there were no staff individuals to help their work. The Association depended on gatherings and print media to teach the general population amid the time. Since the main electronic media achieving the overall population was radio, FPAN started a week by week radio program on family arranging in 1968.
FPAN began more target-arranged and centered projects in the 1970s. A Family Planning Welfare Project was actualized in ten wards of Kathmandu valley in 1972, which began giving sanitization benefits on demand and help of USAID. Since these undertakings required fulltime laborers, staff and volunteers were selected to give the administrations. FPAN began distributed family arranging magazine and other IEC materials for the objective populace in the 1970s. Correspondingly, FPAN projects were extended from three regions in the 1960s to 15 regions in the 1970s and 32 areas in 2004.
The program center of FPAN has been changing step by step to conform its program push and exercises with contemporary interest for FP benefits by the general population. In the 1960s and 1970s, it received a coordinated approach of amalgamating group advancement and family arranging programs. Thusly, an accentuation was given to spreading FP messages and conveying administrations to the destitute individuals in the 1990s in consistence with the adjustments in conduct and states of mind of the general population. In this try, it has been giving more prominent accentuation to administration conveyance since 1992 to take care of the unmet demand for family arranging and regenerative wellbeing benefits. Group advancement projects were diminished generously and new projects, including STI/HIV/AIDS, advising and benefits, sexual and conceptive wellbeing training and administrations to immature and young people, maternity benefits and solid support on safe premature birth were included the 1990s.
FPAN contributes 25-30 percent to the national family arranging projects and its program exercises are steadily growing meeting the unmet needs of family arranging, including STI/HIV/AIDS counteractive action, control and administration
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