Vietnam: Commitment Maker Since 2016

In 2016, Vietnam made its Family Planning 2020 commitment to ensure universal access to family planning and increase the modern contraceptive prevalence rate for married women to 70% by 2020 (from 67.5% in 2015). The government recently expanded their family planning program, finalizing their Costed Implementation Plan (CIP) for family planning which promoted a rights-based approach to family planning for all women. Vietnam continues to generate an adequate budget to ensure that poor, marginalized, hard to reach, and ethnic minority groups have access to family planning. The country is presently implementing the second phase of the Vietnamese Population and Reproductive Health Strategy with the goal of ensuring all women of reproductive age have convenient access to contraceptives by 2030. The family planning program has placed a recent emphasis on promoting quality and strengthening family planning information, education and communication, including for youth.