POPULATION I

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The project includes: (a) construction, equipping, furnishing and staffing of: (i) ten schools to train nurse-midwives and auxiliary nurse-midwives, (ii) six provincial training centers to provide in-service family planning training; (iii) about 250 rural and 30 urban maternal and child health/family planning centers; and (iv) about 40 additional small rural maternal and child health and family planning centers for a demonstration field postpartum program in East Java; (b) construction, equipping and furnishing of a national headquarters in Djakarta and six provincial headquarters for the National Family Planning Coordinating Board (NFPCB); (c) providing equipment to NFPCB and two other institutions for the improvement of facilities for evaluation, demographic training and family planning research; (d) provision of vehicles and spare parts to meet the transport requirements arising from the expansion of staff; (e) preparation of curricula and other programs for the introduction on a national scale of education in the field of population; (f) a ten-fold increase of non-medical family planning field workers. The project also includes a sizeable component of technical assistance to assist the government with implementation.