FG urged to release N1.2bn family planning budget

Civil society organizations, Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health @Scale (PAS), on Monday in Abuja urged the Federal Government to release the N1.2bn allocated to family planning in the 2020 budget.

In a statement read by Ejike Orji, Project Director of the Association for the Advancement of Family Planning – PAS project (AAFP-PAS ), they made the call during the commemoration of the World Contraception Day.

They also asked the government to apply the same results-based management approaches used in the COVID-19 fight to family planning programming in Nigeria.

The statement read in part: “Year after year, the federal and state governments allocate funds in annual budgets for contraceptive procurement; logistics; provider training; and for service provider task shifting and sharing.”