The Papua New Guinea Family Planning Consumer Study (2019) focuses on understanding barriers and facilitators in accessing family planning products and services from women’s or consumers’ perspectives, and contributes important and timely contextual and in-depth qualitative knowledge about women’s engagement with and use of family planning services, products, and methods in Milne Bay and the Eastern Highlands Province, two diverse settings in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The study forms part of the ‘Keystone Making Markets Work for Family Planning’ project, a larger, rigorous assessment of the family planning market in PNG undertaken by Population Services International PNG (PSI-PNG) in partnership with UNFPA, National Department of Health (NDoH), and provincial partners in Central, Milne Bay, Eastern Highlands, Morobe, and Bougainville.

The insights presented in this report will contribute to designing user-centred health solutions to build pathways to family planning that allow women to make the sexual and reproductive health choices they need in order to plan the families they desire.