Right to Information of Family planning among Young Girls in the Context of Nepal: A Policy Analysis

Abstract

Dramatically the use of family planning services and the knowledge about various methods of contraception among young girls has increased in the recent past years. The abortion service utilizing is also in peak as the current data revels that every ten percent of the total pregnancies are aborted by the women/girls. Since the legalization of abortion and wide availability of family planning services has made the sexual world more secure to most of the population of Nepal. To add over the instances, after the democratic movement of Nepal in 1990, more than 220 International Non-governmental Organizations and more than 50,000 Non-governmental Organizations have been established in Nepal (SWC, 2009). Some being as large as Family Planning Association of Nepal (FPAN) and some other being the United Nations including Marie Stopes International have their wide outreach in matters relating to family planning counseling and service delivery. Due the prevailing circumstances of both civil society organizations and the government organizations, the health services are reaching to most of the population of Nepal. On the contrary, the rural population still strives for basic health services as due to topography and some often low priority of both civil society organization and government organizations. However, there still requires several approach to cover the national population as Nepal has to reach 67% of Contraceptive Prevalence Rate by 2015 (ICPD, 1994).