How can stakeholders ensure that family planning programs are designed, implemented, and monitored in a way that respects, protects, and fulfills human rights and puts clients’ needs and preferences at the forefront?

With a renewed global commitment to family planning (FP) among donors and governments worldwide, momentum is growing to support practical ways to infuse a human rights approach into voluntary FP programs. In support of these efforts, EngenderHealth recently published Checkpoints for Choice: An Orientation and Resource Package, a new publication (also available in French) that offers practical guidance on how program planners and managers, policymakers, donors, service providers, community leaders, to strengthen clients’ ability to make full, free, and informed contraceptive choices within a rights-based context.

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