In recent years (after 2009), the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region has demonstrated a pattern
of decline in the Family Planning Effort Index, which measures across time the types and levels of
effort of national family planning programmes worldwide, including each of four components (policies,
services, evaluation, access to contraceptive methods) (1). Between 2000 and 2010, the availability
of funding for family planning programmes in Eastern Europe and Central Asia decreased,
as donors’ assistance for such programmes in the region declined by 50 per cent or more…….

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