A standardized framework for assessing the documented, verifiable climate impact of voluntary family planning and related programs.
The Quality Family Planning Standard™ provides a standardized framework for assessing the documented and verifiable climate impact of voluntary family planning, reproductive health, educational, and related programs.
QFPS™ focuses on activities and programs that promote quality family planning, with a special emphasis on preventing unintended and unwanted pregnancies. The standard quantifies the climate protection impact of their verifiable results.
The climate impact must be substantiated with appropriate data and professionally sound methodologies.
Transparency, documentability, verifiability, and the prevention of double counting are fundamental elements of the system.
QFPS™ is applicable to the assessment of programs and projects that promote quality family planning, with a particular focus on preventing unintended pregnancies and quantifying the resulting climate protection impact.
Family planning activity alone is not sufficient for assessment under QFPS™.
The key is that the program or project demonstrates, with relevant and documentable results, its contribution to the prevention of unintended pregnancies, the climate impact of which can be assessed and quantified within the QFPS™ framework.
QFPS™ applies a structured approach to assessing greenhouse gas emission reductions from voluntary family planning activities.
Climate outcomes must be substantiated with relevant data and appropriate professional methods.
Project documentation and results must be suitable for professional and, where necessary, independent evaluation.
Information and documentation essential for project assessment must be traceable and transparent.
In cases of uncertainty, the assessment must avoid overestimating greenhouse gas emission reductions.
The project's climate outcome must be assessed relative to an appropriate project and reference scenario.
The same greenhouse gas emission reduction result cannot be counted multiple times, by multiple actors, for the same purpose.
QFPS™ provides a structured assessment framework that links program innovation to measurable greenhouse gas emission reductions.
Defining the fundamental characteristics of the project and the family planning activity.
Examining relevant processes, project boundaries, and available data.
Determining greenhouse gas emission reductions according to the applicable QFPS™ framework.
The project and its results may be subject to independent professional evaluation where necessary.
Verified and appropriate project climate outcomes can form the basis for issuing carbon credits.
QFPS™ provides a framework in which properly assessed and verified greenhouse gas emission reductions from voluntary family planning activities can form the basis of Quality Family Planning Credit™ units.
One Quality Family Planning Credit™ represents one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent, representing verified and prevented future greenhouse gas emissions assessed according to the requirements of the standard.
QFPC™ credits are intended to represent real, measurable, and verifiable climate outcomes from eligible projects.
This public website presents the purpose and general principles of the Quality Family Planning Standard™. The complete, controlled standard documentation includes the detailed requirements, application and assessment framework, as well as access and usage terms. Non-public professional details and confidential information do not form part of the public website content.
The full documentation is intended for organizations and professional stakeholders who wish to use the QFPS™ system for project development, project assessment, verification, carbon credit generation, or other professional activities.
Request access to the full standard documentation, or submit the basic data of your family planning project for a preliminary assessment.
Request information about access to the complete QFPS™ documentation, licenses, or professional use terms.
Submit the basic data of your family planning project for a preliminary QFPS™ assessment.