The Foundation is currently planning an expansion of its work in the population field that will build on several current and previous activities.

One approach will focus on strategies likely to produce conditions under which men and women voluntarily limit their fertility. These strategies will include programs to upgrade the economic and educational status of women and to improve maternal and child health. This emphasis reflects the widely held view that the practice of family planning is positively influenced by such factors as a woman's education, her sense of her own opportunities, and parents' perceptions of their children's chances of survival. Currently the Foundation is supporting efforts both in the United States and in the less developed countries to improve the health of mothers and children and to expand women's incomegenerating opportunities (see pages 7 and 27).

Work will also be supported to improve family-planning services, an area in which the Foundation was active for many years. Most family-planning programs in Third World countries are less effective than they might be, a fact reflected in high rates of discontinuance in contraceptive use. The Foundation will support programs to improve the quality of family-planning counseling and follow-up services and to encourage more consistent contraceptive use.

A third facet of population work addresses problems caused by the increased flow of refugees