Assessment of family planning indicators for use in global monitoring

Result of Service Output 1: Drafts of detailed outline of the technical paper, literature review of the studies on new family planning measures and relevant data sets of revised and new family planning measures.

Output 2: Initial draft of the technical paper (in Word) . Output 3: Final draft of the technical paper (in Word) and PowerPoint presentation highlighting the technical paper's main findings and conclusions . Work Location Home-based.

Interactions with the Population Division will be done by e-mail, video-conference, and telephone Expected duration 6 months Duties and Responsibilities Since adoption of the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the availability and accessibility of family planning services, information and education, including access to safe.

effective and affordable contraception, has been viewed as a vital component of improving health and ensuring reproductive rights globally.

As a result, indicators of progress relating to family planning have routinely been included in internationally agreed global development frameworks.

Since 2005, the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) included two family planning indicators for measuring progress towards achieving universal access to reproductive health (Target 5.B): the contraceptive prevalence rate and unmet need for family planning.

Under the current 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development's Target 3.7 - ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes - progress is measured, in part, using SDG indicator 3.7.1 - the proportion of women of reproductive age (aged 15-49 years) who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods.

The remaining years of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provide an opportunity to analyse and assess how family planning data has been and is currently collected, how family planning and contraceptive concepts are measured and how progress towards family planning goals is defined within a global context.

In recent years, there have been calls for the creation of new or revised family planning indicators and measures which are more inclusive and rights-focused, while also being easy to interpret and universally adoptable.

In view of this, the Population Division will engage a consultant to prepare a technical paper and presentation materials that provide an overview of how family planning indicators have been used in global monitoring since 2005, summarize recent discussions and advances regarding revised and new family planning indicators and statistical modelling approaches for the global monitoring frameworks, and to assess the feasibility and usefulness of proposed revised or new family planning indicators in the context of global monitoring frameworks, prioritizing new indicators based on existing data sources.

Work Assignment Under the supervision of the Population Affairs Officers, the consultant will do the following tasks: Task 1: Prepare a detailed outline of the technical paper.

Task 2: Prepare a comprehensive review of the literature on revised and new family planning measures and compile relevant data sets.

Task 3: Prepare the initial draft of the technical paper; Task 4: Prepare the final draft of the technical paper for publication incorporating comments and suggestions from the Population Division staff.

Task 5: Prepare accompanying presentation materials (PowerPoint) highlighting the technical paper's main findings and conclusions that can be used by Division staff to present findings to Member States and other relevant stakeholders.

The consultant will save all documentation required to reproduce any tables or figures included in the technical paper (e.g.

coding scripts, data files) in the appropriate SharePoint project folder.

Qualifications/special skills Academic Qualifications: An advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in demography, or in sociology, statistics, economics or other relevant discipline with an emphasis on demography or population studies.

A first level university degree in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

A minimum of ten years of relevant experience is required.

Advanced knowledge and expertise in family planning data and research, experience with measurement and evaluation of family planning programmes and global monitoring frameworks, ability to independently research, interpret and analyse data on family planning and relevant demographic data are required.

Languages Fluency in English is required.

Knowledge of French is desirable.

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