As Nigeria’s largest gathering focused on family planning, the conference will bring together more than 1,500 people working across government, healthcare, development, civil society, academia, the private sector, faith-based organisations, youth and women’s groups, organisations of persons with disabilities, communities, and other sectors.
At the heart of the conference is continuing to build family planning conversations into concrete, measurable commitments that can strengthen acceptance, adoption, and uptake of family planning and improve Nigeria’s contraceptive prevalence rate.
This matters beyond reproductive health. When people can make informed decisions about whether and when to have children, families are better able to plan for their health, education, and economic wellbeing. At a national level, increased access to and uptake of family planning can contribute to more sustainable population growth, reduce pressure on already stretched public services and resources, and support greater participation of women in education and the economy.
It is also central to Nigeria’s ability to realise a demographic dividend. A healthier, better-educated, and economically productive population can drive national development, but this requires deliberate investments in reproductive health, education, employment, and opportunities for young people.
Family planning is a health issue. It is also a development, population, and economic priority.
And there is an opportunity to contribute to those conversations.
The Call for Abstracts for the 9th Nigeria Family Planning Conference is officially open.
Researchers, academics, programme managers, healthcare providers, policymakers, development partners, civil society organisations, community-based organisations, private sector stakeholders, professional associations, traditional and religious leaders, adolescent and youth groups, and others working across family planning and reproductive health are invited to submit their work.
If you have research, programme experience, evidence, innovations, or lessons that can contribute to strengthening family planning and reproductive health in Nigeria, this is an opportunity to bring that knowledge into the room.
You can find the conference theme, sub-themes, key dates, submission information, and other details on the official conference website.
Shades of Us will be joining the conference because family planning is deeply connected to many of the issues at the centre of our work: women’s agency, gender equality, access to information, health-seeking behaviour, storytelling, and the ability of people to make informed decisions about their lives and bodies.
We are also interested in what happens between evidence and action.
How do we communicate family planning information in ways that people understand and trust? How do we centre the experiences of women, girls, young people, and communities? How can storytelling, social and behaviour change communication, and community engagement help translate evidence into conversations that influence knowledge, attitudes, behaviours, services, and ultimately, better reproductive health outcomes?
These are some of the conversations we look forward to having at NFPC 2026.
If you are attending, presenting, submitting an abstract, or simply following the conversations around the conference, you can help expand its reach by sharing updates using:
#NFPC2026
#9thNFPC
#NFPCAbuja2026
#NigeriaFPConference
#SecuringFPFuture
And if you are doing important work in family planning and reproductive health, do not just attend. Bring your evidence, experience, and learning into the conversation.
The Call for Abstracts is open.
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