International Family Planning: Christian Actions and Attitudes

Source of family planning supplies
CCIH member organizations get their contraceptive supplies from varied sources (Figure 6).
Figure 6
Source of drugs and contraceptives (20 respondents)
Purchased locally
MOH
International secular organizations
Purchased outside the country
Church organizations
Other national secular organizations
Other
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
% respondents
Many organizations do not provide contraceptives, since they know or believe other
organizations are doing it. For those that do provide contraceptives, stock-outs are often an
urgent problem. For those that provide only family planning information, steady supplies for the
people they teach are sometimes a matter of concern
CCIH members want to do more in FP and have varied needs
More than half of the 57 organizations responding said they would like to do more in family
planning, defined as voluntary prevention of unwanted pregnancies (Figure 7). The second
largest group was undecided or did not know what their organization’s view might be.
The CCIH organizations that would rather not do more in family planning were not necessarily
opposed to family planning or unaware of the unmet needs for it. In many cases, their scope and
focus of work is determined by the organization’s mission or mandate, and they do not see
providing family planning services as their niche or strength.
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