Principal Secretary (MH&FW), GoUP/Vice Chairman SIFPSA

Uttar Pradesh is a large state and it has always been a great challenge to ensure providing quality health and family welfare services to its masses. SIFPSA's role in supporting the department, through its innovative interventions and program implementation strategies, was immense to improve the access and quality of health care services, especially in the field of family Planning and RCH in last two decades.

SIFPSA has always been involved in developing and promoting decentralized planning and working in grass root levels and established itself across the state. More importantly SIFPSA, through its program management experience, has always been instrumental in formulation of NHM's annual PIPs since NRHM's inception.

Owing to its experience of program management, community involvement, private sector participation, strengthening public sector, capacity building, program monitoring and evaluation, SIFPSA has constantly extended its technical assistance and administrative support to the department of MH& FW.

Further, I am glad that now SIFPSA is ready for collaboration with national and international organization for the activities related to healthy population and particularly for promoting family planning and RCH services.

I wish that SIFPSA will continually strive for excellence to take on the increasing challenges of the health sector in India.