The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with UNFPA, organized a workshop for the restitution of a socio-anthropological study on the factors influencing the underuse of family planning. Ministers of Health and Women and more than 30 people from the various sectoral ministries participated in this restitution. The study’s main objective is to understand the social and cultural dynamics underlying the underutilization of family planning services in all its dimensions in terms of rights, education, and gender relations, in order to revise the entire mechanism (communication, care supply, organization, accessibility, availability, reception, and capacity building). The study shows that the use of contraceptive methods is affected by social norms surrounding gender, parenthood, sexuality and individual desires, and cultural norms.
