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Zimbabwe

  • The United Nations Population Fund, the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council, and the USAID-funded Health Policy Project collaborated to analyze how investment in family planning can contribute to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Zimbabwe. The Family Planning Cost-benefit Calculator was used to estimate the cost savings to achieve five of the eight MDGs.

  • In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), expected national fertility levels and country-level observations demonstrate repeated mismatches in magnitude and/or direction.Thus there is an unfulfilled demand for better explaining, understanding, and communicating how fertility changes. Accurately predicting fertility is critical for understanding how populations may be expected to change, and for managing expectations about the possible impacts of TFR-affecting policy levers. The USAID-funded Health Policy Project produced this poster for the 2015 Population Association of America conference to determine to what extent can the accuracy of predicting fertility in SSA using the proximate determinants framework be improved by implementing revisions, with emphasis on the contraception index.

  • The United Nations Population Fund and the USAID-funded Health Policy Project used the Gather, Analyze, and Plan (GAP) Tool to analyze data on Zimbabwe’s demographic patterns and family planning (FP) costs. The analysis is intended to give decisionmakers in Zimbabwe a picture of the additional investment in FP that will be needed to achieve the country’s FP2020 goals.

  • The USAID-funded Health Policy Project applied its new ImpactNow model to estimate the near-term benefits of achieving the FP2020 goals in Zimbabwe. This brief describes some key benefits associated with achieving these goals, and offers recommendations for the government of Zimbabwe and development partners to increase investment in and improve family planning services in the country.

  • This booklet presents an analysis of family planning (FP) in Zimbabwe and explains how FP saves the lives of women and children, promotes economic development, and saves money in other areas of development. It also examines the funding gap that Zimbabwe must address to achieve its FP2020 objectives.

    The analysis was conducted by a group of partners from the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care, the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council, the United Nations Population Fund Zimbabwe (with pooled funding from the United Kingdom Department for International Development, the Government of Sweden, and Irish Aid), and the Health Policy Project (funded by the United States Agency for International Development).