The Small, Healthy Family Project

The Indonesian national family planning program initiated in 1969 has recruited over 10 million married women of reproductive age which is more than 1/2 the eligible number of family planning acceptors in the country. More than 4 million are continuing current users. The success of the program is attributed to its strategy whereby the communities assume responsibility for management and implementation of the program. It is feared that the gains of the program will disappear if there is no effort at modification of the socioeconomic structure of these villages. A program - the Small Healthy Family Project - has been proposed to link family planning activities with developmental provision for basic human needs. The program will introduce basic health and nutrition services on a step-by-step basis in conjunction with efforts to increase community participation in family planning activities. Reduced fertility it is supposed will measure the long-term success of the project but will not be a condition for progression to the next step in the program. The aim will be to create a small family norm and to achieve full community participation

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