The purpose of this brief is to help advocates, program planners, policymakers and Ministries of Health establish policies, allocate resources, and advocate for successful vasectomy programs.

It uses the Supply-Enabling EnvironmentDemand (SEED) Programming Model (TM) which has been established as a useful global framework for sexual and reproductive health programming. In the SEED Model, the following three components must be mutually reinforced in order to create and sustain successful vasectomy programs: 1) creating, increasing, and sustaining demand for vasectomy services, 2) increasing supply of vasectomy services, and 3) creating an enabling environment for vasectomy programs.