Browse POLICY Project (1995-2006) Materials
Skip to Keyword List
Skip to Series List
Skip to Country List
- Adolescent Reproductive Health
- Advocacy
- Capacity Building
- Evaluation
- Family Planning/Reproductive Health
- Gender
- HIV/AIDS
- Human Rights
- Planning and Finance
- Research/Models
- Safe Motherhood
- Core Packages-TOO Final Reports
- Core Packages-Progress and Synthesis
- Country Reports
- Manuals, Guidelines
- Maternal and Neonatal Program Effort Index
- Monographs
- Other
- Political Commitment Series
- POLICY Issues in Planning and Finance
- Occasional Papers
- Policy, Plan
- Research Briefs
- General Reports
- Working Papers
- Afghanistan
- Africa
- Angola
- Asia and the Near East
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Bangladesh
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- China
- Cambodia
- Cote D'Ivoire
- Congo
- Chad
- Cameroon
- Costa Rica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- El Salvador
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Indonesia
- India
- Jordan
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Morocco
- Mynamar
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- Nicaragua
- Namibia
- Niger
- Peru
- Paraguay
- Philippines
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Southern Africa
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- South Africa
- SAHEL/CERPOD
- Sri Lanka
- Senegal
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Togo
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Vietnam
- West Africa Regional Program
- Worldwide
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
- Zambia
Country and regional assignments reflect those made at the time of production and may not correspond to current USAID designations.
Files will load from www.policyproject.com.
List entries are alphabetical by title and contain the title, abstract, language, and then the filename which is hyperlinked and will open in a new browser window. Many files are PDFs but some of the older ones are Word documents.
Specific
At the start of the new century, Romania faces slow economic growth, rising poverty levels, and low health status, among other challenges. However, certain positive changes have occurred, notably improvements in reproductive health (RH). In August 2000, the government approved policies that paved the way for its groundbreaking approach to contraceptive security. These policies defined contraceptive security in terms of government financing for contraceptive commodities, targeting free public sector contraceptives to vulnerable segments of the population, establishing revolving funds to enable judets (districts) to purchase and sell contraceptives locally to nontargeted clients, and ensuring access especially in rural areas. Ministry of Health and Family (MOHF), in collaboration with the POLICY Project, undertook an assessment in March–May 2001 of how well the new national contraceptive security policies and laws were being translated into action at the service delivery level. Results of the assessment are presented in this paper. The paper starts with a socioeconomic and RH background and policy and program context. It then highlights operational constraints and other findings from the assessment using questions aimed at stimulating dialogue on policy barriers and their implications. These discussions are followed by policy options that might be considered in addressing the various operational barriers. The concluding section summarizes the key policy concerns and identifies what the authors believe are the most critical issues and policy options.
English
Rom_CS.pdf