Mission Statement

The National Family Planning Programme as a component of Reproductive Health seeks to provide the highest standard of reproductive health care services to the population, with focus given to adolescents, women in the reproductive age group and males.

Vision Statement

The Family Planning Programme provides access and utilisation of high quality reproductive health/family planning care services to the general population.

Goals:

1. Provide comprehensive high quality Family Planning Service that is available and accessible to the general population with special focus on teenagers, women in the productive age group and men.
2. Prepare providers of Family Planning Services to administer the services effectively, efficiently and free from coercion.
3. Monitor and evaluate the programme in order to identify strengths and weaknesses and resolve issues that may negatively affect programming.
4. Conduct research studies to determine areas/risk groups of high fertility and design appropriate programmes to target these areas.
5. Increase awareness concerning Family Planning through the Provision of Information and Education to the general public.

Objectives

1. To increase the number of active acceptors registered with the National Family Planning Programme from thirty-five point four percent (35.4%) to fifty-five percent (55%) of women in the reproductive age group and from one percent (1%) to five percent (5%) among males/men.
2. Conduct annual physical examinations inclusive of cervical and prostate screening on one hundred percent (100%) active acceptors.
3. Produce and distribute in collaboration with the Health Education Unit four (4) electronic media programmes and five thousand (5,000) copies of reading material relevant to the needs of the population.
4. Conduct five (5) Reproductive Health Community Outreach Programmes annually, targeting adolescents, men and women in the reproductive age group.
5. Collaborate with the Health Education Unit to strengthen and improve youth centre activities, one (1) on the Leeward Side and Windward Side of the country to provide Family Life Education, Skills Training, Recreational and Sporting activities for six hundred (600) each per area).
6. Plan and implement Family Planning Awareness Week annually.
7. Computerise inventory.
8. Update a total of one hundred and forty-one (141) health care personnel in prostate/cervical screening, policy initiatives, family planning management and adolescent reproductive health.
9. Conduct, in collaboration with community nursing service, quarterly visits to all clinics throughout Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
10. Maintain supply distribution systems and vehicle

Roles and Responsibilities

Each family member has a responsibility to each other.
Father and Mother: Financial support, love, respect, training of children, domestic work etc.
Family Planning is a conscious decision with an individual or couple in determining matters relating to family life. One aspect of this, of course, is the determination of the number of children that the family would like to have, given the resources available to that family, the health and socio-economic status of the family would like to enjoy. Contraceptives are simply the enabling devices which help families to implement their family planning decisions.

Strategies

Our programme provides reproductive Health Services to the general population.This is done through many organised activities and the distribution of contraceptives to the general public through the 38 health centres at district level. To enhance the quality of services training of health and non-health personnel also conducted on a continuum, and equipment is also provided to clinics.

1. Provide and distribute Comprehensive Family Planning Services inclusive of contraceptives, surgical sterilization, cervicaland prostate screening, annual physical examinations,counseling and follow-up to one hundred percent (100%) of acceptors at all clinics  throughout St Vincent and the Grenadines.
2. Coordinate a public information campaign to increase awareness about Family Planning for workers, community members and especially males to mobilise broad based support for changes.
3. Empower and involve youths as advocates for new and innovative programmes.
4. Access and identity communities to conduct community workshops in Reproductive Health/Family Planning.
5. Conduct research to obtain information that would inform policy development education,planning and programming activities.
6. Conduct in service training programme in Reproductive Health and Family Planning techniques for all categories of Health Workers throughout the planned period.
7. Provide continuous maintenance of the equipment and machinery utilised by the programme in order to facilitate timely distribution of supplies and information to all concerned.