ABSTRACT
The organized family planning program is a fairly recent phenomenon in the developing world. Much has happened since India declared the first official population policy in 1952. This chapter focuses on one aspect of the evaluation of family planning programs — integration Issues associated with community-based family planning delivery systems, which go beyond the respective countries' existing clinic-based health infrastructure. One of the most dramatic changes that have occurred in family planning is in the number and types of delivery systems that have evolved. In most community-based systems, family planning services are provided by specially trained lay persons from the community. Calls for the Integration of family planning services with other development activities have been long and persistent. Integration entails the combining of various functions or tasks. Implicitly, integration means that the elements to be integrated are distinct entities which, for whatever reasons, did not previously exist together.
