A New Social and Economic Case for Investing in Family Planning

Between 2022 and 2025, the Family Planning Impact Consortium (FP-Impact) will conduct a research, modeling and dissemination project centered on how investment in family planning provides a path to women’s empowerment and economic development.

FP-Impact aims to use a model-based approach to generate and disseminate robust, stakeholder-informed estimates of the broad social and economic impacts of family planning. FP-Impact will use the resulting evidence to advocate mobilization of funds for family planning—from donor government development and foreign aid contributions and from national government allocations.

The evidence generated will help expand the framing of the value of investing in family planning from a rationale focused primarily on health (e.g., reducing maternal morbidity and mortality) to a rationale that includes women’s economic empowerment and economic development. In other words, the project’s models are expected to examine the additional value of investing in family planning not only for surviving but also for thriving over the life course.

FP-Impact is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation.