But previous family planning programmes involving sterilisation have proved controversial.
But the report warned that population growth threatened to outpace the expansion of family planning programmes in some countries.
Between 1995 and 2007, financial investment in family planning programmes fell by 65% – from $980m to $340m.
Social stigma, and the legacy of India's forced family planning programmes, has kept men away from clinics.
It is critical, she said, that women are not denied access to contraception and there is absolutely no coercion in rolling out family planning programmes.
The focus of family planning programmes should be less on the numbers reached than on the quality and voluntary nature of the service provided.
Mass US-funded family planning programmes were targeted at a number of countries, with foreign aid and even trade sometimes dependent on meeting western targets.
Two decades after Iran initiated progressive family planning programmes, MPs announced last year that they were seeking a U-turn in order to boost the population.
Khamenei has made similar remarks in a number of speeches, prompting authorities to slash subsidies for vasectomies and curb the government budget for family planning programmes.
A few heroic efforts, such as Family Planning 2020, are attempting to stimulate family planning programmes across the continent, and there are some signs of success.
When Ayatollah Khomeini assumed leadership in Iran in 1979 and launched the Islamic revolution, he immediately dismantled the well-established family planning programmes and instead advocated large families.
