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Senegal has plans to generate demand for family planning, especially through mass media communication and community mobilization, with targeted messages for women and to increase involvement of men and young people, and to leverage networks of religious leaders and national and local champions to advocate for family planning.

Senegal will improve the supply chain and reduce stock outs to zero especially through the Informed Push Model; improve forecasting and quantification of needs with the Reality Check model; Expand service points (e.g., mobile outreach, social marketing, and franchising models) and remove barriers ((e.g. prescription requirements, stock-outs) to increase access for remote and vulnerable populations; Improve choice of methods and the quality of service, especially for youth, through recruitment, training, and supervision of qualified personnel; Introduce innovative approaches to family planning, such as the acceptability study of Depo subQ, a new self-injectable contraceptive; Scale up community based services through task shifting; and integrate family planning services with other programs such as immunization and HIV. 

Senegal commits to increasing the yearly budget allocation to reproductive health from 2.5 percent to 5 percent; increasing budget allocation for contraceptive commodities by 200 percent; and increasing the budget for management of the family planning program by 100 percent. In addition, Senegal has plans to mobilize increased donor and private sector financing for family planning and to put in place coordination mechanisms to improve engagement with donors and for optimized fund allocation.

Senegal launched a national plan for family planning in November 2012. Within the Ministry of Health, Senegal plans to make Reproductive Health Division a Directorate and create a Family Planning Division. Senegal will allocate additional financial and human resources to the Reproductive Health Division to ensure the execution and monitoring of the national plan; ensure accountability at highest level and regular monitoring of the national plan and its performance indicators; introduce an advocacy program to increase financing; and improve the regulatory framework to reinforce the private sector, and strengthen the public sector.

Senegal strives to achieve a CPR of 27 percent by 2015, (an increase of 15 percent, representing 350,000 additional married women). Senegal plans to reduce unmet need to 15 percent by 2015 (currently 30 percent), and ensure women have equal access to high quality and affordable maternal newborn and child health services, including family planning.