The importance of SRH to the attainment of international development goals has not been adequately translated into action frameworks and monitoring mechanisms at international, regional and national levels. Advances have been hindered by the complexity of the concept. Different components of SRH fall within the province of different sectoral ministries, challenging coordinated national responses. Many national planners learned development economics before the recent analytical advances on the effect of age structures on poverty reduction. SRH issues have also been distributed among various MDGs (mater- nal health, child mortality, gender equality, HIV/AIDS) and family planning has been excluded from the Goals, reducing.
