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Overview
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Indicator Database: contains key indicator Family Planning and related data for UNFPA programme countries.
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FP Country Opportunity Briefs: for each UNFPA programme country, a FP Country Opportunity Brief can be generated from the FP database.
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Data-driven snapshot: The Briefs provide an up-to-date snapshot of progress and remaining challenges across FP and related areas and are designed to be used—principally—by UNFPA Country Offices to engage in targeted, data-driven dialogue with the Government and other in-country partners and stakeholders.
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Global Pubic Good: The FP database (and the FP Country Opportunity Briefs generated from it) is to be maintained over the longer-term to provide accurate, up-to-date data to support national efforts to end unmet need for Family Planning – a critical elements to progress in achieving the SDGs and Agenda 2030 and one of UNFPA’s three transformational goals. The data is to be updated periodically as it becomes available. The FP Database is to be made available to all interested parties as a global public good.
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Objective: As UNFPA programme countries update and/or bolster national FP strategies and programmes, the data will facilitate efforts to identify focus areas and priorities and plan action to ensure in-country improvements for all, in terms of access to and use of quality FP services, informed and inspired by the 25 recommendations for action, developed in partnership with a broad range of FP stakeholder partners at the UNFPA-hosted Global Consultation on Ending Unmet Need for FP, Antalya, Turkey, June 2019.
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Disclaimer to data and indicator parameters: Among countries there is no uniform approach to the parameters of a given indicator. For example, in some countries, measuring the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) focuses on all women 15-49, in others all women and girls married or in union. Some measurements focus on use of modern contraceptives (modern or mCPR) while others more generally on all methods (including traditional ones). Similarly there are semantic differences in the words used by different countries, such as when ‘Birth spacing or limiting’ is preferred to ‘Family Planning’. The FP Database aims to present multiple data sets to meet these differing needs where they are available, but also conformed to global standards and was limited by data availability.
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Standardised, comparable data: The FP Database is designed, as far as possible, to present standardized and comparable datasets for all UNFPA programme countries. Where data are lacking for a given country or region, efforts will be made to address any data gaps. By contrast, in countries with increasingly sophisticated, disaggregated data, for example, at sub-national level, the global level FP Database will not contain as much information as is available in-country. Countries and Regions can, of course, undertake to develop additional more detailed datasets as fits their needs and priorities.
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Cost-benefit of Database: The development and maintenance of the FP Database will inevitably be constrained by economic considerations and, as such, cannot meet all in-country FP related needs. It is designed to provide data-driven insights to guide discussions and help prioritization in-country. Other tools are under development to support additional efforts, for example, with regard to increasing domestic finance for FP.
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Purpose: The FP Database and FP Country Opportunity Briefs have different purposes at global, regional and country level. The primary objective is to facilitate in-country action to achieve universal access to FP as an integral part of SRH and to end unmet need for FP. At regional level it is designed to support efforts around priority areas as highlighted by the data, boosted by the identification of synergies and common objectives among countries. At global level, where the FP Database will be maintained, the Database will facilitate the definition of common challenges and the allocation of resources and will play an important role in gauging overall progress towards ending unmet need for FP by 2030.
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Next Steps
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·         Develop stepwise guide for COs and Government
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·         Need for clear information regarding the parameters for each indicator
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·         Additional issues to consider: Method access and provider availability; Financial access; Domestic spending (currently broad health focus, not FP specific)
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·         Language versions
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