The PERFORM (Project Evaluation
Review for Organizational Resource Management) survey
was designed and undertaken to measure indicators for
IFPS benchmarks in 28 districts of Uttar Pradesh. Main
objective of PERFORM survey was to identify needs and
measure improvements in access, quality and demand for
family planning and reproductive health services in Uttar
Pradesh.The survey was also designed to measure IFPS benchmark
indicators at 3 levels :
Public
and private service delivery points
Service
providers staffing the facilities
The client
population, represented by married women of reproductive
age
It gives estimates for
the state as well as regional, divisional and district
level estimates for the 28 districts.
This document also serves
as a yardstick to quantify progress against baseline levels
of access, quality and demand established by the survey.
The survey findings have also greatly helped to design
strategic interventions in the IFPS Project. The first
part of this document throws light on the methodology,
including the survey design, the sample design and the
sample composition, employed in the survey. Further, it
discusses a set of reproductive health and quality indicators
which have been defined and described at length. These
indicators are:
Fertility
Contraceptive
Practice
Service
Utilization
Public
Sector - Access, Quality & Demand
Private
Sector - Access, Quality & Demand
The survey findings against
each indicator are depicted in the form of data tables
together with explanations for the same. The document
concludes with a summary of the survey findings and their
implications for the IFPS Project.
