Three Yeats of Pakistan's·New National Family·Planning Programme

Lee L Bean and A. D. Bhatti
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Lee L Bean: Middle East, Demographic Division, the Population Council
A. D. Bhatti: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Karachi, Pakistan.

The Pakistan Development Review, 1969, vol. 9, issue 1, 35-57

Abstract: Seventeen years ago (1952) the first organized family-planning programmes were started"in PakiStan by the Family"Planning Association of Pakistan. Since that time family planning has passed through three distinct phases, and it is now in a fourth phase. Phase I was marked by the unofficial activities of voluntary organizations such as the Family Planning Association. In Phase II, the beginning of an official policy was made with the "cautious approval" and limited funding vititieS by the government in the First Five-Year Plan (1955- 1960-l Official policy was crystallized in .PMse)1I with the writing of the Second Five-Year Plan (1960-1965) in which a specific allocation was made for family planning and the responsibilities for operating such a programme assigned to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Welfare, Health Division [21 22].

Date: 1969
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