Voluntary family planning programs that respect protect and fulfill human rights: A conceptual framework.

Scaling up access to family planning services over the next decade to reach national and global goals will take the combined efforts of governments; donors; and family planning human rights and women’s health advocates. Voluntary Family Planning Programs that Respect Protect and Fulfill Human Rights: A Conceptual Framework presents a practical approach for realizing human rights as part of voluntary high-quality family planning programming. The framework provides a pathway for voluntary family planning programs to respect protect and fulfill human rights as they set out to improve health and achieve ambitious family planning goals. This comprehensive framework brings together human rights laws and principles with family planning quality of care frameworks to assist policymakers program managers donors and civil society with program design implementation and monitoring and evaluation. This is the first framework to operationalize rights principles and approaches within family planning programming strongly linking issues of quality of care with human rights.