Postpartum Family Planning in Bangladesh: A Situation Analysis and Way Forward

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We thank the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for its support of this work. We would like to thank several individuals who made important contributions to this report. We would like to thank Dr. Shams El Arifeen from icddr,b, who provided support and guidance throughout the process of researching and writing this report. We must also thank Ms. Tasnova Wahed and Dr. Hassan Rushekh Mahmood of icddr,b, who provided important research assistance and helped to identify many of the documents and articles cited in this report. We thank Dr. Sian Curtis for her guidance provided to the Bangladesh MEASURE Evaluation team involved in this work. We would like to thank Dr. Md. Moinuddin Ahmed, Line Director – CCSDP, Dr. Nurun Nahar Begum Deputy Director – CCSDP, Mr. Pranab Kumar Neogi, Line Director FSD – FPP, Mr. Md. Mahbub-Ul-Alam, Program Manager (Quality Assurance) – FSD-FPP, who all provided their valuable time to meet with the researchers. In so doing, they provided important insights, ideas, and documents on the postpartum family planning program in Bangladesh. We would like to thank Dr. Abu-Jamil M. Faisal, EngenderHealth, and Dr. Mizanur Rahman, EngenderHealth who sat with the researchers, provided their insights and experiences of working on PPFP in Bangladesh, and identified important documents for the researchers’ further reading. Dr. Faisal also helped to review the early draft versions of this report, providing important insights into the history of the PPFP program and its current status. Finally, we are grateful to the USAID/Bangladesh team members who reviewed this report and provided important insights and documents. In particular, we would like to thank Dr. Kanta Jamil, Dr. Samina Chowdhury, Ms. Brenda Doe, and Mr. Azmal Hossain for the time they took to review the report, the additional documents that they were able to identify for this report, and their suggestions and guidance on the PPFP program in Bangladesh.