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Three Years of Pakistan's New National Family-Planning Programme

Author(s) -

Lee L. Bean,

Afshan Bhatti

Publication year - 1969

Publication title -

the pakistan development review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154

H-Index - 26

ISSN - 0030-9729

DOI - 10.30541/v9i1pp.35-57

Subject(s) - family planning , christian ministry , government (linguistics) , plan (archaeology) , economic growth , phase (matter) , welfare , public administration , five year plan , political science , social policy , geography , sociology , law , economics , demography , china , population , research methodology , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , archaeology , organic chemistry

Seventeen years ago (1952) the first organized family-planningprogrammes were started in Pakistan by the Family Planning TanningAssociation of Pakistan. Since that time family planning has passedthrough three distinct phases, and it is now in a fourth phase. Phase Iwas marked by the unofficial activities of voluntary organizations suchas the Family Planning Association. In Phase II, the begin¬ning of anofficial policy was made with the "cautious approval" and limitedfunding of such activities by the government in the First Five-Year Plan(1955-1960). Official policy was crystallized in Phase III with thewriting of the \ Second Five-Year Plan (1960-1965) in which a specificallocation was made for \ family planning and the responsibilities foroperating such a programme assigned to the Ministry of Health, Labourand Social Welfare, Health Division [21 ; 22].

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