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Aligning Funding and Need for Family Planning: A Diagnostic Methodology

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: With limited international resources for family planning, donors must decide how to allocate their funds to different countries. How can a donor for family planning decide whether countries are adequately prioritized for funding? This article proposes an ordinal ranking framework to identify under-prioritized countries by rank-ordering countries by their need for family planning and separately rank-ordering them by their development assistance for family planning. Countries for which the rank of the need for family planning is lower than the rank of its funding are deemed under-prioritized. We implement this diagnostic methodology to identify under-prioritized countries that have a higher need but lower development assistance for family planning. This approach indicates whether a country is receiving less compared to other countries with similar levels of need.

Source: Studies in Family Planning

DOI: 10.1111/sifp.12034

Authors: Victoria Y. Fan, Sunja Kim, Seemoon Choi, Karen A. Grépin

Language: English

Topic: International Development and Aid

Subfield: Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Partnerships for the goals, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,707

Funders: United States Agency for International Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, United Nations Development Programme, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities