The New Zealand organisation, Family Planning, says attitudes towards contraception are beginning to change in the predominantly Catholic nation of Kiribati.
The group says the country has some of the poorest access to family planning services in the pacific.
It's national medical advisor, Christine Roke, has recently returned from Kiribati after teaching nurses how to provide long-term contraception such as implants and intra-uterine devices or IUDs.
Christine Roke says Kiribati women she met welcomed the option of long-term contraception.
"It's been downplayed over the years and now there is a really keen interest in it and their resources are such and the island is such that it's really important for them to make sure they're having children when they want - spacing them."
Christine Roke.
