Renne E P
Woodrow Wilson School, Office of Population Research, Princeton University, NJ 08544-2091, USA.
Stud Fam Plann. 1996 May-Jun;27(3):127-36.
In this article, local perceptions of family planning programs and federal population policy are examined, based on responses to a childbirth survey and on interviews with a range of individuals in one northern Nigerian town. The respondents' differing perceptions of the relationship between population and national development reflect distinctive ideas about political authority, population policy, and family planning programs, about development, and about domestic and international political affairs. Local suspicions about the Nigerian population policy and family planning programs suggest that they cannot be implemented in isolation from broader political and economic concerns. This distrust has ramifications for current family planning programs and reproductive health initiatives undertaken by Western-sponsored aid projects.
本文基于对尼日利亚北部一个城镇的分娩调查的回应以及对一系列个人的访谈，考察了当地对计划生育项目和联邦人口政策的看法。受访者对人口与国家发展之间关系的不同看法，反映了他们在政治权威、人口政策、计划生育项目、发展以及国内外政治事务等方面的独特观念。当地对尼日利亚人口政策和计划生育项目的怀疑表明，这些政策和项目不能脱离更广泛的政治和经济问题而孤立实施。这种不信任对西方资助的援助项目目前开展的计划生育项目和生殖健康倡议产生了影响。
