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dc.contributor.authorBertrand, Jane T.
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-29T11:59:04Z
dc.date.available2024-04-29T11:59:04Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90074
dc.description.abstractThis book chronicles five decades of struggle to introduce family planning into one of the largest, most complex countries in sub-Saharan Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Interweaving details of major political, social, and economic events into the history of family planning in DRC (formerly Zaïre), the book analyses the achievements and setbacks of five decades of programmatic work. President Mobutu’s 1972 discourse on Naissances Désirables (desirable births) opened the door to organized family planning programs, which gained considerable momentum in the 1980s despite societal norms favoring large families. Two pillages and armed conflict paralyzed development work during the decade of the 1990s, and family planning was one of multiple public health programs that struggled to regain lost ground in the 2000s. With new donor funding and implementing agencies, the 2010s witnessed rapid programmatic expansion and improved strategies. By 2018, family planning was operating as a well-oiled machine. But progress is fragile. The book ends by tracing the deleterious effects of the colonial period to contemporary programming and individual contraceptive use. It asks hard questions about donor financing. And it details the six conditions needed to accelerate family planning progress in the DRC, in pursuit of providing millions of Congolese women and men with the means of controlling their own fertility. The book will be of interest to development and public health researchers and practitioners, as well as to historians of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africaen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGL Regional geographyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girlsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health educationen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health::VFD Popular medicine and health::VFDW Women’s healthen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSN Social worken_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and governmenten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF2 Gender studies: men and boysen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issuesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKC Gynaecology and obstetricsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationshipsen_US
dc.subject.otherThe Congo Free State (1885–1908);Family planning;The Belgian Congo (1908–60);DRC;The First Decade Post-Independence (1960–69);Congo;The 1970s: President Mobutu Authorizes Naissances Désirables;USAID;The 1980s: Zaïre Experiences the First Golden Decade for Family Planning;Zaire;The 1990s: Development Work Paralyzed by Pillages and War;IPPF;The 2000s: Family Planning – Like the Country – Inches Back to Normalcy;Mobutu Sese Sekoen_US
dc.titleFifty Years of Family Planning in the Democratic Republic of the Congoen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Dogged Pursuit of Progressen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781032718897en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
oapen.relation.isbn9781032718873en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781040048481en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032718897en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages335en_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation


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