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Contributors Design: Sophie Weiner Writing: Sophie Weiner Translation: Pascale Ledeur-Kraus Technical input and review: Ruwaida Salem, Aissatou Thioye, Fredrick Mubiru, Anne Kott, Katie Wallner About Knowledge SUCCESS Knowledge SUCCESS (Strengthening Use, Capacity, Collaboration, Exchange, Synthesis, and Sharing) is a five-year (2019-2024) global project led by a consortium of partners and funded by USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health to support learning, and create opportunities for collaboration and knowledge exchange, within the family planning and reproductive health community. We use an intentional and systematic approach, called knowledge management, to help programs and organizations working in family planning and reproductive health collect knowledge and information, organize it, connect others to it, and make it easier for people to use. About Family Planning 2020 FP2020 works with governments, civil society, multilateral organizations, donors, the private sector, and the research and development community to enable 120 million more women and girls to use contraceptives by 2020. An outcome of the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning, FP2020 is based on the principle that all women, no matter where they live, should have access to lifesaving contraceptives. Achieving the FP2020 goal is a critical milestone to ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health services and rights by 2030, as laid out in Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 5. FP2020 is in support of the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health. This collection was curated and published in September 2020. Cover photo credit: Dominic Chavez / World Bank
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This collection is made possible by the support of the American People through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Knowledge SUCCESS (Strengthening Use, Capacity, Collaboration, Exchange, Synthesis, and Sharing) Project. Knowledge SUCCESS is supported by USAID’s Bureau for Global Health, Office of Population and Reproductive Health and led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) in partnership with Amref Health Africa, The Busara Center for Behavioral Economics (Busara), and FHI 360.
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Ouagadougou Partnership
Regional coordinating body
Strengthening Civil Society Engagement for Family Planning
CS4FP
West African Health Organization
WAHO
Contraceptive methods
WHO Guidance on Family Planning
World Health Organization | 2015–2019
WHO, USAID, CCP | 2011
Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers
High Impact Practices in Family Planning
USAID, UNFPA, WHO / IBP, IPPF, FP2020
Best Practices
TCI University Global Toolkit
The Challenge Initiative | 2020
Knowledge Management
Documenting best practices in family planning programmes
WHO Regional Office for Africa | 2017
PATH, John Snow, Inc. | 2017-2023
DMPA-SC Access Collaborative
Community Health Worker Provision of Injectable Contraception
FHI 360 | 2018
Costed Implementation Plan Resource Kit
Strategic planning
FP2020, UNFPA, USAID
Advocacy
Mobilizing Communes in Francophone West Africa
Équilibres & Populations
AgirPF | 2018
Policy Environment That’s Favorable for Family Planning in Mauritania
Family Planning and HIV Service Integration
FHI 360 | 2017
HIV/FP Integration
Decision-making for Designing Youth-friendly Services
Evidence to Action | 2015
Social and Behavior Change
Shared agendas for SBC change in family planning in the OP region
Breakthrough ACTION | 2019
RAES | 2018
C'est la vie : Entertainment-Education
FP-Sustainable Development Goals Model
Health Policy Plus | 2019
Family Planning Financing Roadmap
Strategic Planning
Health Policy Plus
A Guide to Using Knowledge Management in Global Health
Knowledge for Health (K4Health) | 2017
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Why did we create this collection?
FP/RH professionals working in these francophone regions frequently cite a lack of access to timely, research-based resources in French. We created this collection to help programs in the region stay up to date on emerging evidence and best practices. The collection brings together quality resources—either originally published in French or professionally translated—on a range of priority topics.
Francophone regions of the world, including West Africa, Central Africa, Madagascar, and Haiti are areas with tremendous promise for voluntary family planning and reproductive health care. For instance, the nine countries that comprise Francophone West Africa have some of the highest maternal fertility rates, lowest contraceptive rates, and highest number of maternal deaths of any region in the world. This high need is met with an equally high level of family planning investment and commitment among governments, regional leaders like the Ouagadougou Partnership, and donors. Voluntary family planning is a proven cost-effective, high-yield intervention for improving health and accelerating development. Currently, about 25% of married women ages 15–49 in the region would like to space or limit births but are not using modern contraceptive methods, mainly because access to voluntary family planning is limited.
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The Ouagadougou Partnership (OP), launched in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in 2011 at the Regional Conference on Population, Development and Family Planning in Francophone West Africa, aims to accelerate progress in the use of voluntary family planning in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Togo, with the objective of reaching at least 2.2 million additional family planning method users in the nine countries by 2020. The OP is based on two principles: (1) better coordination between donors to optimize their support to countries and (2) collaboration and cooperation at national and regional levels to avoid high rates of unmet voluntary family planning needs. As a major coordinating body in the region, the OP has developed and houses a range of key resources for the FP/RH community on its website, which includes microsites on:
About the OP The core partners group of the OP consist of the French Development Agency (AFD), the U.S. Agency for International development (USAID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the West African Health Organization (WAHO), the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), and the Department for International Development (DFID).
Annual OP meetings that highlight reports, presentations, and photos. Click here to access resources from the 2018 7th Annual Meeting: Pathways for Success for the OP in 2020. Beyond 2020 OP Strategy, a platform to celebrate successes and take stock, create a new vision for the Partnership, and determine the organizational structure to meet new challenges. All stakeholders are invited to get involved by helping to spread the word about the strategy and voicing their opinions about different elements of the strategy including the vision, operational principles, and regional challenges to be met. The OP COVID-19 Response that has an interactive map displaying real-time pandemic data in the OP’s nine member states, guidance documents, and testimonials about COVID-19 by OP focal points.
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With leadership from the OP Coordinating Unit, the Partnership assists countries with implementation plans, tracks progress against objectives, and shares information inside and outside the Partnership.
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Why is it essential? CS4FP is strengthening civil society engagement to successfully reposition voluntary family planning and accelerate the achievement of the objectives set by countries to increase contraceptive prevalence.
Strengthening Civil Society Engagement for Family Planning in West Africa Project (CS4FP’s) vision is to contribute to achieving the demographic dividend in the nine Ouagadougou Partnership (OP) countries by strengthening the advocacy and action capacities of coalitions of civil society organizations (CSOs), young people, and religious leaders; and improving youth reproductive health care, including HIV/AIDS prevention. The initiative has four specific objectives:
Since strengthening capacity for youth is a priority for the organization, CS4FP launched Youth Ambassadors for Family Planning and Reproductive Health in Francophone West Africa. The program mobilizes young people to share experiences and good practices between national networks. Watch this music video to learn more. In addition, CS4FP has developed a variety of interactive multimedia resources that provide young people with the right information to promote positive reproductive health. About CS4FP Led by IntraHealth International with technical and financial partners at the national and regional level, CS4FP is funded by the William Foundation and Flora Hewlett and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Strengthen the capacities of CSOs in advocacy, political dialogue, and services in order to improve national and regional civil society responses for increased resource mobilization and the implementation of national family planning action plans; Engage more young people in OP member countries in repositioning family planning through the implementation of high-impact initiatives; Strengthen the engagement of community and religious leaders and groups of influential people (journalists, music and sports celebrities, and model husbands) in country Costed Implementation Plans to successfully reposition family planning commitments in OP member countries; Set up a robust monitoring and evaluation system to document, assess, and disseminate the contributions of CSOs in achieving family planning objectives at country and regional levels.
Strengthening Civil Society Engagement for Family Planning in West Africa Project
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With its headquarters in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, the West African Health Organization (WAHO) is a specialized institution within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). WAHO promotes priority health policies and programs in the region, strengthens strategic partnerships for health, and builds the institutional capacity of its organization. The inadequate production and management of health information, research, and documentation hinders planning and decision making. This is why WAHO lists the Promotion of Health Information and Research for Health as number one on its list of priority programs in the organization’s 2016-2020 Strategic Plan. The program aims to make quality health information available, easily accessible, and used in planning and decision making throughout the ECOWAS region. In addition, although some progress has been made in improving maternal and infant health in most of the ECOWAS member states, mothers and children in the West Africa region are still suffering high mortality rates. WAHO is focused on promoting Maternal, Neonatal, Child, Adolescent, Youth, and Older People’s Health programs to improve the lives of these vulnerable populations and alleviate negative impacts on the socio-economic development of the region. The WAHO website provides up-to-date information on its current family planning and reproductive health projects, such as the Regional Program on Reproductive Health, Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Prevention in the ECOWAS region. About WAHO WAHO is responsible for coordinating consistent policies among member states, pooling resources, and facilitating cooperation with other stakeholders for a collective and strategic fight against the health problems of the West Africa region.
Why is it essential? As an influential intergovernmental organization, WAHO has not only coordinating power but also the advocacy power necessary for supporting member states to adopt new policies for improving family planning.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) provides two main evidence-based guidance documents on the provision of contraceptive methods in order to improve the quality of family planning services.
In addition, in 2019 the WHO reviewed global guidance on contraceptive eligibility for women at high risk of HIV acquisition and to determine whether revisions to the fifth edition of the MEC were needed. The issue was deemed critical, particularly for sub-Saharan Africa, given the high lifetime risk of acquiring HIV alongside the importance of hormonal contraception in offering women and girls choice and in reducing their risk of unintended pregnancy, a common threat to the health, well-being and lives of women and girls. Several new recommendations were made, published in Contraceptive eligibility for women at high risk of HIV: Guidance statement: Recommendations on contraceptive methods used by women at high risk of HIV, which allow women women at a high risk of HIV to use all methods of contraception without restriction. About WHO The WHO is the specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) for public health created in 1948. Working with 194 Member States, across six regions, and from more than 150 offices, WHO staff are united in a shared commitment to achieve better health for everyone, everywhere.
Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use (MEC, now in its fifth edition, published in 2015), provides thorough information and guidance on the safety of various contraceptive methods for use in the context of specific health conditions and characteristics. Selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use (SPR, third edition, published in 2016) provides guidance for how to use contraceptive methods safely and effectively once they are deemed to be medically appropriate.
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Why is it essential? WHO family planning guidance documents are seminal resources in helping women around the world get access to safe and acceptable methods of voluntary contraception. They are used by many national governments as reference tools to develop or revise national service delivery guidelines for contraception that take into account the specific country context.
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Written in plain terms and organized for quick reference, Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers is an essential resource on contraceptive methods for health care professionals providing voluntary family planning in low- and middle-income countries. As one of the four cornerstones of WHO’s family planning guidance, the handbook provides specific and practical high-quality, up-to-date guidance on 21 family planning methods. It also covers health issues that may arise in the context of family planning services. While the intended primary audience for this handbook is health care providers who offer family planning in resource-limited settings around the world, health care managers, supervisors, and policy-makers also may find this book helpful. The handbook provides basic information—including effectiveness, side effects, how to provide the method—that providers need to assist women and couples to choose, use, and change family planning methods as they move through their lives. Program managers and providers play a central role in supporting clients to make voluntary and informed choices from a range of safe and available methods. The client–provider relationship, grounded in evidence-based and skillful counseling, can help inform the client’s understanding of family planning benefits in general and of the chosen method in particular. About the publishers Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers was published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
WHO, USAID, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs | 2011
Why is it essential? The handbook has been the world’s standard reference on family planning methods since its first publication in 2006. Experts from around the world have contributed to its development, and hundreds of global organizations and professional organizations working in family planning have endorsed and adopted this guidance.
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Co-Sponsors: USAID, UNFPA, WHO/IBP, IPPF, and FP2020
High Impact Practices (HIPs) are a set of evidence-based family planning practices vetted by experts against specific criteria and documented in an easy-to-use format. Endorsed by more than 30 organizations, HIPs help build consensus around our current understanding of what works in family planning. HIPs are identified based on demonstrated magnitude of impact on contraceptive use and potential application in a wide range of settings. A number of HIPs have been identified and documented related to the enabling environment, service delivery, and social and behavior change.
Why is it essential? There are many ways to increase access to and use of voluntary family planning, and decision makers often don’t have the time to review decades of learning in order to identify what works. HIPs were created to address this need and develop consensus around high-impact practices in family planning.
The TCI University Global Toolkit provides information and tools to help family planning program managers and decision makers design, plan, and implement a successful comprehensive urban family planning program. Information is provided on a range of voluntary family planning approaches in advocacy, services and supply, and demand generation, including a brief description of the family planning approach, benefits and the evidence supporting the approach, and step-by-step implementation guidance, along with tips, challenges, and links to practical tools. The toolkit, published by The Challenge Initiative (TCI), is based on evidence from the evaluation of four urban reproductive health initiatives in India, Nigeria, Kenya, and Senegal. About The Challenge Initiative (TCI) TCI aims to rapidly and sustainably extend proven reproductive health solutions among the urban poor, building on the demonstrated success of the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (URHI) ) from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Why is it essential? Designing and implementing successful, evidence-based family planning programs for the urban poor requires ongoing learning and knowledge exchange. The global toolkit provides highly synthesized and practical how-to guidance and tools on how to implement proven family planning approaches.
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“Best practices” are exemplary public health practices that, through experience and research, have been shown to achieve results, and thus warrant scale up to benefit more people. Countries can benefit from exchanging experiences on best practices with one another, but limited documentation may limit people’s ability to find, use, and share knowledge on experiences of what works and lessons learned. This document guides WHO, ministry of health, and civil society organizations in identifying, documenting, and sharing knowledge of these experiences that can contribute to the acceleration and expansion of health sector actions. By providing specific guidance in documenting and sharing best practices in voluntary family planning, family planning professionals and organizations can avoid reinventing the wheel, improve their performance, and avoid the mistakes of others. Two templates for documentation are included: a detailed template that includes all the information needed for others to decide whether to replicate a best practice in their setting and a summary template for writing up the best practice in an easy-to-read format. In addition, the World Health Organization and its partners have published Programme reporting standards for sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health. These guidelines were developed to facilitate knowledge sharing within and between different programs and sectors working to improve the health and well-being of individuals. By focusing specifically on the systematic reporting related to the development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation processes of programs, these guidelines help to highlight lessons learned in the field and help to facilitate replication and scale-up. About WHO Regional Office for Africa The WHO Regional Office for Africa is one of WHO’s six regional offices around the world. It serves the WHO African Region, which comprises 47 Member States with the Regional Office in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
A Guide to Identifying and Documenting Best Practices in Family Planning Programmes
Why is it essential? Widely disseminating knowledge of best practices may prevent the repetition of mistakes and loss of valuable time, and lead to more rapid scale up of successful interventions leading to greater impact. This guide, which merges the identification of best practices with a deliberate focus on the elements of scaling up, was identified as a key resource at the 2018 WAHO Forum on Best Practices in Health.
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Increased access to voluntary contraception is one of the best ways to build strong economies, create healthy families, and advance the reproductive health of women. Subcutaneous DMPA, or DMPA-SC, is an innovative injectable contraceptive that can dramatically expand access and choice for women and girls when offered as part of a broad method mix. DMPA-SC makes injections simpler because it is injected into the fat under the skin, rather than into the muscle like intramuscular DMPA. Because it is easy to use and requires minimal training, DMPA-SC is a simple addition to service delivery channels in both the public and private sectors, and even enables women to self inject. Led by PATH and John Snow, Inc. and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, an initiative called the DMPA-SC Access Collaborative, is helping bring DMPA-SC within reach in several countries by working with ministries of health and partners across sectors to strengthen scale-up and build a robust global market for the product. The Access Collaborative provides health ministries and country partners with a range of support, including dedicated technical assistance to integrate DMPA-SC alongside other methods in national family planning programs. The initiative developed these short training videos intended for both self-injection clients and health workers learning to administer DMPA-SC. The Access Collaborative also facilitates learning across countries by exchanging information, results, and lessons learned; troubleshooting challenges; and accelerating the adoption of best practices. In 2018 and 2019, it hosted the Evidence to Practice workshops, a series of global learning and exchange opportunities that gathered together family planning experts from more than 20 countries. About PATH PATH is a global organization that works to accelerate health equity by bringing together public institutions, businesses, social enterprises, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing health challenges. PATH develops and scales solutions—including vaccines, drugs, devices, diagnostics, and innovative approaches to strengthening health systems worldwide. About John Snow, Inc. John Snow, Inc. (JSI) is dedicated to improving and promoting public health in the United States and across the globe. JSI works in more than 40 countries, partnering with clients to develop flexible, innovative approaches that solve complex public health problems, strengthening health systems to improve services—and ultimately, people’s health.
DMPA-SC Access Collaborative: Putting a new type of injectable contraception within reach
Why is it essential? Incorporating DMPA-SC into a country’s family planning program and method mix can help promote expanded contraceptive choices, women’s empowerment, and autonomy, advance national and global family planning goals, especially those related to access and use, and strengthen delivery systems and markets for all voluntary family planning methods.
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This handbook outlines the nine basic components of a community-based family planning program that includes injectables within the method mix provided by community health workers (CHWs). Injectables are the most preferred family planning method in many parts of the world, yet accessing them remains a major challenge. One way to meet the demand for injectables is through programs that expand community-based access to injectables through CHWs. CHW provision of injectable contraception has been used to expand the method mix at the community level since the 1970s. This handbook provides program managers, policy makers, and those interested in expanding access to family planning with insight to prepare, initiate, and scale up the provision of injectable contraception by CHWs. About FHI 360 FHI 360 uses research and evidence to design and deliver innovative programs that change behaviors, increase access to services, and improve lives.
Community Health Worker Provision of Injectable Contraception: An Implementation Handbook
Why is it essential? For nearly four decades, programs in Latin America, Asia, and Africa have consistently shown that provision of injectables by CHWs can be an extremely safe and effective way to provide voluntary family planning.
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A Costed Implementation Plan (CIP) is a multi-year actionable roadmap designed to help governments achieve their voluntary family planning goals—goals that when achieved will save millions of lives and improve the health and wellbeing of women, families, and communities. Countries must be strategic and efficient in investing limited resources to meet the growing demand for family planning. Those that devote time and resources in developing a CIP will emerge with a detailed plan for systematically implementing strategies, fulfilling commitments, and achieving family planning goals. The CIP Resource Kit features tools for developing and executing a robust, actionable and resourced family planning strategy. Specifically, the kit includes guidance documents and tools necessary for program planners, ministry representatives, and technical assistance providers to go through the CIP process based on the hands-on experience with creating and implementing CIPs. About the publishers This Resource Kit is the result of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and thought leadership among numerous organizations and experts. The Health Policy Project and the Knowledge for Health Project led the development of new tools for the Resource Kit and curated existing relevant resources.
Why is it essential? The Resource Kit can accelerate progress toward family planning goals irrespective of a country’s current stage of CIP implementation: Government officials and technical assistance providers can use the kit to develop new plans, help refine and implement existing strategies, and move policy to action.
Reproductive health care needs, including voluntary family planning, remain significant in the Francophone West Africa region. The use of modern contraceptive methods remains far below existing needs. Recognizing the strategic importance of reproductive health care and voluntary family planning, countries in the region have made strong commitments to family planning at both the national and regional level. However, reproductive health tends to remain a low priority among lower levels of the health system, and Francophone West Africa has undergone a process of decentralization in recent decades, which gives more responsibility to local authorities. The objective of this guide is therefore to highlight links between decentralization, family planning, and advocacy. About Équilibres & Populations Created in 1993 by doctors and journalists, Equilibres & populations acts on the national and international scene for the rights and health of women and girls in West Africa.
Mobilizing Communes in Francophone West Africa: A Guide to Communal Advocacy for Sexual and Reproductive Health
Why is it essential? Capitalizing on the experience of members of the Rights and Health Alliance, this guide is a practical tool for all organizations wishing to engage in advocacy work at the local level.
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Agir pour la Planification Familiale (AgirPF) | 2018
The Agir pour la Planification Familiale (AgirPF) project, supported by USAID/West Africa and implemented by EngenderHealth, strives to contribute to the implementation of action plans developed under the Ouagadougou Partnership to reposition voluntary family planning in five intervention countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Niger, and Togo. One of AgirPF's strategic axes is the improvement of the policy environment around family planning programs. To achieve this, the project has been working since 2013 in close collaboration with the five countries, the OP, the West African Health Organization (WAHO), and other partners to agree on the best approach, taking into account the significant unmet needs for family planning, inadequacies in the supply of available services, weak political support for family planning programs, and socio-cultural obstacles to accessing and using services. Given the decisive role of strong political will and support from religious and customary leaders in the implementation of family planning plans, a dual advocacy strategy was adopted aimed at actions by the administrative political authorities in favor of family planning on the one hand, and religious and traditional leaders on the other. This resource describes Mauritania's experience in this area. About AgirPF AgirPF is a five-year program, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)/West Africa, EngenderHealth, and its partners, designed to expand women’s access to and use of family planning in five West African countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Niger, and Togo.
Contribution of the AgirPF Project to a Policy Environment That’s Favorable for Family Planning in Mauritania
Why is it essential? This brief shows how one project is taking an advocacy approach with political and religious leaders to improve the policy environment around family planning in Mauritania. It provides an example for how other countries that share a similar context in the Francophone West African region can adapt and apply this approach.
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Present treatment allows people living with HIV to lead long and healthy lives. But getting people on treatment—and keeping them on treatment—remains challenging. In addition, a high number of women, girls, and couples living with HIV have unmet family planning needs. In recent years, the integration of HIV and voluntary family planning has become a critical intersection for those working in both fields to get and keep more people on treatment and to address unmet family planning needs. This Global Health eLearning Center course explains the benefits of integrating voluntary family planning into HIV services and provides guidance on how to establish and sustain the delivery of integrated FP/HIV care. The course addresses FP/HIV integration from a health systems perspective, covers contraceptive methods for people living with HIV, and describes how HIV care providers can help their clients make informed reproductive health decisions and access appropriate care, including both voluntary family planning and safer pregnancy/conception care. Finally, the course includes special considerations for addressing the family planning needs of key populations affected by HIV. Click here for a complete list of Global Health eLearning Center courses offered in French. About FHI 360 FHI 360 uses research and evidence to design and deliver innovative programs that change behaviors, increase access to services, and improve lives.
Global Health eLearning Center: Family Planning and HIV Service Integration
Why is it Essential? Integrating voluntary FP and HIV care makes health care services more responsive to clients’ needs. This 2-hour course was designed by technical experts to provide public health program planners and managers with the guidance they need to better meet the reproductive health needs of clients living with HIV.
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This tool aims to strengthen youth-friendly reproductive health care by guiding program designers in their choice and adaptation of context-based models for young people of the country, considering the target population, desired outcomes, and care offered as well as the needs and objectives for scaling up and sustainability. It outlines seven different youth-friendly models and seven steps for selecting and planning the scale-up of appropriate models. About Evidence to Action (E2A) The USAID-funded E2A project has advanced evidence-based practices that have helped reduce unwanted pregnancies and gender disparities and improve reproductive health. E2A is led by Pathfinder International, in partnership with ExpandNet, IntraHealth International, and PATH.
Thinking outside the separate space: A decision-making tool for designing youth-friendly services
Why is it essential? It is becoming increasingly clear that the time has come to move from small or one-size-fits-all youth initiatives to health systems tailored to the needs of youth. This tool guides program designers throughout the decision-making process to develop an adapted youth-friendly model.
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Social and behavior change (SBC) is a proven, cost-effective approach to address the normative and behavioral challenges surrounding voluntary family planning use and to increase access to and motivate demand for modern contraception. Despite a major coalescence around the FP2020 and Ouagadougou Partnership (OP) goals, major SBC actors, including donors, multilateral institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and private-sector companies, working to achieve these goals often do not coordinate SBC investments, which results in duplication of efforts in some cases and critical gaps in others. This shared agenda for SBC provides a framework for governments, funders, and implementers to coordinate their actions for greater impact in the OP countries by: (1) identifying strategic priorities in SBC and family planning for greater investment; (2) catalyzing coordination and collaboration; and (3) creating linkages between regional investments and global efforts. About Breakthrough ACTION As USAID’s flagship global social and behavior change project, Breakthrough ACTION ignites collective action and encourages people to adopt healthier behaviors—from using modern contraceptive methods and sleeping under bed nets to being tested for HIV.
Shared agendas for social and behavioral change in family planning in the Ouagadougou Partnership region
This shared agenda is a tool to galvanize global coordination in SBC programs for family planning and will help inform investment decisions and enable improved collaboration among donors.
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A unique multimedia social and behavior change (SBC) campaign, C'est la vie centers around an education-entertainment television series that addresses themes such as reproductive health, gender-based violence, and maternal and child health in Central and West Africa. The campaign also involves a community approach by offering innovative educational tools, including an educational kit that invites communities to question the themes covered by the series. The main objectives of the project are to:
C’est la vie: Entertainment-Education
Why is it essential? C'est la vie models a high-impact awareness campaign that encourages the adoption of responsible and healthy behaviors in reproductive health.
disseminate good practices in matters of maternal and child health and reproductive health to a wide audience raise awareness of gender-based violence and promote the empowerment of women launch personal reflections and collective debates encourage the adoption of responsible and healthy behavior in matters of reproductive health.
About RAES RAES is a Senegalese NGO which believes it is essential to put the democratic potential of the media, traditional or digital, at the service of actors in the field and communities so that they can learn, mobilize, and act on their future, individually and collectively.
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Ensuring universal access to voluntary family planning has been identified as a key priority for realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and as one of the most cost-effective SDG targets. Amidst uncertain donor funding, and an increased need for domestic investment, the Health Policy Plus project developed the Family Planning-Sustainable Development Goals (FP-SDGs) Model, which allows users to simulate the effects of family planning on a variety of health and non-health SDG indicators. Projected SDG outcomes include water and sanitation services, poverty, food security, child stunting, education, income, and child labor, and more. The FP-SDGs Model is an evidence-based advocacy tool that projects medium- and long-term effects of three different family planning scenarios, capturing the significant impact that contraceptive use has on SDG achievement. The model can be applied in any country, and allows users to design multiple scenarios to show how investments in family planning, education, and the economy can accelerate progress toward the SDGs. By showcasing the benefits of contraceptive use related to health, society, and the economy, the model provides evidence that supports investments in family planning at national and subnational levels. About Health Policy Plus (HP +) Health Policy Plus (HP+) strengthens and advances health policy priorities at global, national, and subnational levels. The project aims to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy design, implementation, and financing.
Family Planning-Sustainable Development Goals (FP-SDGs) Model
By showcasing the benefits of contraceptive use related to health, society, and the economy, the model provides evidence that supports investments in family planning at national and subnational levels.
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This interactive tool characterizes the current framework for funding family planning and health in a country, allowing contextualized and targeted recommendations for potential family planning funding options for the country. This roadmap has default data but users have the option of providing updated data from other sources. The roadmap generates a specific report recommending family planning funding options relevant to the country selected. About Health Policy Plus (HP +) HP + strengthens and promotes health policy priorities at global, national and sub-national levels and aims to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies and supply systems through policy design management, implementation and financing.
Why is it an essential resource? The roadmap is designed to support sustainable family planning approaches and targets a wide range of users, ranging from those with limited knowledge of family planning concepts to those who have some knowledge or experience and are looking to better understand a few specific topics.
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Family planning professionals need access to high-quality scientific evidence and programmatic experience to do their jobs effectively. With this knowledge, they can help save and improve people’s lives. This guide helps program managers choose the appropriate mix of tools and techniques for sharing and using critical knowledge in family planning programs. Knowledge management is used within and across health-focused institutions and organizations to:
Building Better Programs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Knowledge Management in Global Health
Why is it essential? Developed under K4Health and currently maintained by Knowledge SUCCESS, this guide draws on more than 40 years of collaborative work between CCP and USAID to present global health professionals with a five-step roadmap for collecting knowledge and connecting people to it so they can act efficiently and effectively.
Ensure that relevant health knowledge—data, research findings, best practices, programmatic guidance—flows up, down, and across the health care system, from national to district to community levels Nurture and engage professional networks to cultivate an environment within the health care system that promotes collaboration and learning Address human resource issues related to acquiring, sharing, using, and retaining organizational knowledge to improve decision making, processes, and services
About K4Health Funded by the USAID Bureau for Global Health (2013-2019), K4Health helped people around the world learn, share, and act on critical family planning and public health knowledge. About Knowledge SUCCESS Knowledge SUCCESS uses knowledge management, behavioral science, and design thinking to make accessing, exchanging, and using critical knowledge relevant, easy, attractive, and timely for FP/RH professionals.
