Recently Bangladesh health and family planning program has been shifted from a bifurcated service delivery to an unified service delivery approach - fixed clinic (community clinic) to deliver a essential package of services (ESP) instead of home-to-home contraceptive distribution. This study examines the ability, mobility, willingness, and permeability of family planning client to avail that services through survey and focus group discussion. The study revealed that today Bangladeshi women are more empowered than 10 year before. The areas where women seem to have much more independence are reproduction and use of contraceptive method. Interesting enough, many women are contracepting without informing their husband. Other domains of family life where women now have some influence or independence include: movement out side home, participation in paid labor force and taking small decision about her own family. The majority of the women said that empowerment is due to women education, service, poverty, and even for as women headed country.
Learning Objectives: To know whether Bnagladeshi women are empowered enough to take fertility decision To examine if the women are empowered, what extent
Keywords: Family Planning, Family Planning
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Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: Population Council
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