Quality and Access to Family Planning Services in Select Urban Cities of Uttar Pradesh, India

Pranita Achyut, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Sushmita Mukherjee, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Laili Irani, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Anurag Mishra, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Ilene S. Speizer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Priya Nanda, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)

Improving the quality and access to family planning services is essential to increasing contraceptive prevalence and decreasing the unmet need for family planning. This descriptive study examines the issues around availability and quality of family planning services among different types of facilities, as well as providers, in six urban cities of Uttar Pradesh. Audits of preferred facilities were conducted on 100+ facilities in each city. Preliminary data analysis from two cities show varying availability of two or more family planning methods, and considerable differences in proportion of facilities with stock-outs of condoms and pills. The service delivery data in this sample is representative of each of the six cities in UP and thus provides a unique opportunity to measure quality standards for family planning services for urban areas in the state, and can be used to suggest programmatic interventions to improve quality.