The manual is designed to provide policy-makers, provincial and municipal health officers, hospital directors, clinical supervisors, and health service providers with accessible, clinically-oriented information to strengthen the provision of reproductive health services in Nepal. The first section contains the standards for counseling, client assessment, infection prevention, quality improvement in family planning and complication management systems for providing family planning services.

Similarly, the second part contains the national standards for specific contraceptive methods available in the country.

The last section focuses on situation-specific contraception such as postpartum/post-abortion family planning, adolescent contraception, satellite clinic, emergency contraception, etc.

This publication is developed by the Family Welfare Division under the Ministry with support from UKaid, UNFPA and Jhpiego.