Background/Objectives
Over the years, the acceptance and practice of family planning within the reproductive age group of 15-45 in Nigeria has been slow with only 17% of women taking it up and 15.1% not having access to family planning. The aim of this research is to point out and analyze sustainable financing for family planning with focus on internal financing.
Methods/Materials
The method used was by collating pre-existing materials on public, private and individual financing of family planning available from Vanguard and Statistica on Google.
Results.
The results show that while there has been improvement in financing family planning, no breakthrough has been made which could be sustainable enough to reach the grass roots and solve the problem of access to family planning among females. The government has pledged to increase family planning to 27% by 2024 from the present 15% (according to vanguard newspaper) through financing but sadly, this is merely a projection and even with the assistance of donations will not solve the problem by 2030.Family planning has to be viewed from another angle which is as being the responsibility of every Nigerian, This would entail finding and using a singular story which convinces every Nigerian to actively contribute to the cause and collaborating with the government to remove a tiny fraction (0.5%) from the income of the upper and middle class. A way to finance family planning sustainably will be by increasing awareness and acceptance of family planning, then encouraging the upper and middle class to contribute to the cause by educating them on why they should contribute,the effects of family planning and how it indirectly affects them.
Conclusion.
As Nigerians, sustainable financing can only be achieved with the contribution of all available resources and the active participation between government and people.
