The Bulgarian Family Planning Association (BFPA) is a non-government organization founded in 1992, registered in the public register as a non-profit organization. BFPA’s goals are focused on promoting and providing adequate services in the field of reproductive health and on providing information on various aspects of sexual health, safe sex and contraception, and gender equality.
The organization’s target groups are various – young people, disadvantaged groups, youths in institutions, ethic minorities (the main focus being placed on Roma people), medical specialists, school teachers and staff in high schools, general practitioners, women in rural areas, etc. BFPA has its centers in the capital Sofia, in Plovdiv, in Varna, in Rousse, in Stara Zagora and Pleven and partners locally with a number of non-government organizations in Bourgas, Vratsa, Gabrovo, Veliko Tarnovo, Lovech, Haskovo, etc. The Association has 8 full-time staff members and 27 part-time employees. In 2007 the organization was assisted by 200 volunteers – schoolchildren, students, journalists, pharmacists, school and university professors, economists and jurists. In Bulgaria the BFPA is a co-founder of the National Anti AIDS Coalition.
In the years of its existence the organization has also been working with many state and municipal institutions like the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, the State Agency for Child Protection, the Central Commission for Tackling Anti-Social Behavior of Minors, the local units of the Regional Inspectorate for the Preservation and Control of Public Health (RIOKOZ), etc.
Partnerships with other non-government organizations around the country are especially important for achieving the goals and targets which the BFPA sets. That is why we have set up strategic partnerships with organizations like the Bulgarian Red Cross, the Lale (Tulip) Foundation, the Workshop for Civic Initiatives Foundation, the Help for Charity in Bulgaria Foundation, EKIP – Bulgaria, the International Organization for Migration, the MG – Platform of Bulgarian Associations of Development NGOs, the Ethnic Minorities Health Problems Foundation, the Initiative for Health Foundation, etc.
