As the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery process unfold, access to voluntary family planning (FP) care has been and will continue to be disrupted. Yet meeting the family planning needs of women and couples remains essential. Generating comparable evidence from multiple countries and programmatic contexts is critical to advancing understanding of the effects of the pandemic and recovery process on FP access and use, supporting program adjustments and generating broader learnings to inform the response to future pandemics.
The USAID-funded R4S Project, with technical assistance from the USAID-funded Envision FP Project, has developed a series of survey questions that can be added to ongoing studies and activities to systematically capture the effects of the pandemic and recovery process on FP access and use.
