Population Welfare Department

Organizational Setup

The Population Welfare Department consists of 02 tiers.

  Administrative Setup

Provincial Level

The Population Welfare Department is headed by an administrative Secretary with Support staff, and funded from the Provincial budget. The Provincial Directorate of Population Welfare Department is headed by Director General and assisted by Support Staff. The fund is furnished by Ministry of Population Welfare (MoPW) through Provincial Government & AG Office. The function of Provincial Headquarter is the implementation of the program, monitoring, financial management, submission of reports to MoPW, coordination with other Departments & supervision of the programme activities.

District Level

The district set-up provides support to the Provincial hierarchy with responsibility of implementing, supervising and coordinating the work of all programme and non-programme service delivery network and the private sector, provide logistic and contraceptive support to all centers etc. In NWFP there are 24 Revenue districts are functioning. Each program district has a District Population Welfare Officer with supporting staff.

Tehsil Level

Tehsil Office is out of the district headquarter. A Tehsil office is headed by a Tehsil Population Welfare Officer and supported by 3 staff members. The unit is being functioned as a focal point in Tehsil to channelize FP/RH services at gross-root level and provide feed-back to the district. The existing Tehsil setup is 18 in the province. The No. of Tehsils has been expanded from 18 to 31 in the current five year plan.

Service Delivery Setup:-

In the population welfare program, service delivery being the core component of the Program, plays a vital role to facilitate the community. The family planning/reproductive health services are being provided through a net-work of the facilities i.e. static/extension services. For population stabilization, reduction in growth rate/unmet need and to increase the contraceptive prevalence rate, there is need that the services are improved and reach the far flung remote population, particularly in the rural areas.

RHSCs-A:-

These are of two types. The A-type centre is established by the Population Welfare Department itself. There are 14 Nos. of RHSCs-A functional throughout the province.

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RHSCs-B:-

In addition to RHSC-As, the Population Welfare Department engages Medical officers in the Government hospitals up to Tehsil level of Health Department and NGOs & private sectors.

Mobile Service Unit:-

An MSU Covers a Population of 30,000 in rural areas and services are provided through holding of extension camps for delivery of the Family Planning Services at the doorstep. Presently there are 19 MSUs functioning in the province while 11 more such units will be operational by the end of current financial year 2004-05.

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F.W Centers

During the last financial year 2003-04 108 No. of FW-Centers has been established throughout the province for which 540 posts from BPS-1 to 11 have been sanctioned. Each FWC covers a population of 6,000 to 10,000.

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 Male Mobilizers

Being a male dominant society this component has been introduced to cater to the needs of male segment of society. At present there are 365 Male Mobilizers throughout the province.

Functions

PLDs

In addition to above the outlets of Provincial line departments are also mobilized for provision of F.P services. The WMOs/Paramedics of the Line Department (Health, Social Welfare) are providing FP/ RH services. These WMOs/Paramedics of provincial line departments are given short training in FP/ RH. Services in the Regional Training Institutes of Population Welfare Department.

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