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National Budgeted Action Plan for the Repositioning of Family Planning has planned
the targeting by department of 1,143,000 (total numbers for the country) women aged
from 15 to 49 years recently using family planning from 2014 to 2018. Actions are
under way to reach this objective.
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Integration of basic health programs in the national development plans:
The Health sector is visibly the one where the State set up the most programs. Strong
incidence disease or even neglected or little-known diseases are very often the
subject of a national program. Therefore, we can mention the national program
against AIDS, the national program against malaria, the national program against
tuberculosis, the program on non-transmitted diseases, the expanded immunisation
program, etc.
226 Health programs are addressed in the various national or local development policy
papers. It is the case especially of long term national prospective studies such as
Benin 2025 Alafia or in the various poverty reduction strategy papers and in
community development plans.
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Mobilization of sectors of society for disease prevention measures and child
health
The community-based approach is more and more used in health-care centres and
social promotion centres which are directed at all levels of society (parents,
community leaders, community agents) and give information about the use of food
knowledge for child health and nutrition, knowledge of breastfeeding benefits, hygiene
care of the environment and domestic accident prevention (for instance, food
poisoning).
228 Moreover, some NGOs perform community-based awareness during weighing and
cooking demonstrations within communities including remote villages.
229 Civil society organisations are also active. Thus, NGOs, local communities and
beneficiary populations take part to the planning and management of basic health
care programs. For instance, the selection of management committees is more and
more customary (water point or health care centre management committee).
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Resource mobilisation by the Government for local governments
In the framework of decentralisation, the law N°97-029 of January 15, 1999, relating
to the organisation of the communes in the Republic of Benin, stipulates in its article
100, that the commune is in charge at the level of the district, village or city district, of
the building, equipment, and maintenance of public health care and social promotion
centres, of public cultural youth infrastructure, of sports and leisure. It ensures
besides, the maintenance of these centres and infrastructure. To this end, the
Government provides with necessary resources.
In this respect, the communes establish five-year development plans in which health
issues are always taken into account.