Family Welfare Education and Motivation for Family planning Services through Rural Co-operatives. The project is being implemented in 150 thanas of 45 districts of the country. The objectives of the project are:

i) To create awareness about the population problem among the co-operative leaders/members.

ii) To motivate co-operators to accept and adopt family planning services/ methods.

iii) To strengthen the organisation and management of the co-operatives for rendering family planning services.

iv) To introduce training courses on population and family planning the curriculum of the training centers like BARD, RDA, TTU etc.

The total cost of the project is Taka 31 million as grant from UNFPA for arrangement of training for the volunteers on health and family planning. These volunteers, in turn, motivate the members in the weekly meeting of the primary societies. Besides, the volunteers procure family planning materials from the Thana Family Planning Offices or from field workers and distribute the same to the members. Out of 1,24,889 eligible couples in the project area 78,227 i.e. 62% of them accepted birth control methods up to June 1998.