County family planning strategies key to Kenya’s quest for development

Kenya aspires to be a newly industrialising, middle-income country, providing a high quality life to all its citizens by the year 2030. This aspiration is commonly referred to as Vision 2030. Vision 2030, the Constitution of Kenya 2010, and other policy documents articulate Kenya’s ambition of providing citizens with the highest possible standards of health services, including sexual and reproductive health.

Besides being one of the paths towards realising high standards of health, family planning gives up to five times the investment, as shown by the ImpactNow policy model. When the National Council for Population and development (NCPD) and the Health Policy Project (HPP) applied the ImpactNow policy model in 2015 for Kenya, every Sh85 spent on family planning was projected to accrue savings of Sh381 in direct healthcare costs by 2020.