October 2012 – Almost two years in the making, Kenya’s national family planning costed implementation plan was officially launched nationwide by the Kenya Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation in October 2012. The ambitious plan, which describes five key interventions to increase contraceptive prevalence and the costs that will be needed to implement them, is expected to help increase contraceptive prevalence from 46 percent to at least 56 percent by 2015. The Ministry’s Department of Reproductive Health formed a task force, coordinated by FHI 360 with Program Research for Strengthening Services (PROGRESS) project support, to develop the plan, beginning in 2011.
