Number of women who delivered in a facility who initiated or left with a modern contraceptive method. Also: type of contraceptive method (for disaggregation). Evaluators may also want to disaggregate data by age group (e.g. <20 & 20+).

Facility-based records capturing care given immediately after birth and/or FP services. This would be a delivery register or postnatal care register for pre-discharge care, with a column to capture contraceptive method. In some cases, an FP register may be used if it has space to record  what contraceptive method given to a woman during pre-discharge care.

This indicator can also be collected via surveys and client interviews (McCarthy 2018).

This indicator measures the uptake of FP in the immediate post-delivery period and can serve as a proxy for the integration and quality of FP with maternal health care services. It assesses the initial interactions between women post-delivery and service providers at the facility where they deliver. It attempts to measure the uptake of FP methods that the woman can start using prior to discharge, often with provider assistance (IUD, implant, tubal ligation, and LAM) as well as methods women can leave the facility with (pills or condoms).

This indicator is only measuring one aspect of postpartum FP, namely the post-delivery period when the woman is still at the facility. Other measures are necessary to account for the entirety of the postpartum period.

This indicator is limited to facility-based births, but contraceptive methods can be initiated in the community. Additional indicators may be required to capture community-based births and community-based FP distribution.