POPULATION II

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The project is designed to help reduce fertility and mortality by strengthening the Government's population control/family planning and health programs respectively. Its main objectives are: (a) to expand and strengthen the primary health care and family planning service delivery system; (b) to expand and improve the quality of training for health and family planning field staff; (c) to continue and expand, on a limited basis, selected information, education and motivation activities initiated under the first project; and (d) to improve the program's management, monitoring and evaluation, and research capacity. In order to minimize the risks of delay in project implementation and to strengthen the population control/family planning program, the Government is taking special measures designed to decentralize the program's management and organization, to streamline its administrative, financial and recruitment procedures and to strengthen the effectiveness of the program's field organization and field workers.