Elements of Family Planning Success

This online training course is based on the issue of Population Reports, "Elements of Success in Family Planning Programming." It summarizes the core factors contributing to success in family planning programming, as identified by family planning professionals around the world. It highlights program experiences, best practices, and lessons learned. These guiding principles can help family planning professionals plan new programs, make improvements to existing programs, and prepare for future developments and challenges. The course is free and available to all who are interested.

This package can help inform policy-makers, program managers, and donors on the benefits of and approaches for introducing or revitalizing long-acting and permanent methods (LAPMs) within national reproductive health and family planning programs in Africa.

Purpose:

Strategic Approach to Strengthening and Reproductive Health Policies and Programmes involves a three-stage process for assisting countries to assess reproductive health needs and priorities, test policies and programme adaptations to address these needs, and then scale up successful interventions. It is typically used by public-sector health-care programmes, in collaboration with non-governmental organizations and international agencies.

This list of 8 steps is designed to help family planning policy-makers and program managers determine whether and how to begin providing the contraceptive injectable depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA or Depo-Provera) through existing community-based services.

Population Reports has identified 10 key lessons about what makes programs succeed, based on a consensus of opinion among respondents to a new survey and a review of family planning research and program findings.

Created in partnership with a distinguished group of advisors, this guide provides faith leaders, churches and organizations serving Latino families ideas to help young people avoid too-early pregnancy and parenthood.

The toolkit is an electronic compendium of tools designed to assist health professionals at all levels of an organization in their efforts to provide accessible high-quality and sustainable health care. These tools have been developed by organizations working throughout the world to improve the delivery of health services.

This training manual is designed to prepare trainers who already have skills as reproductive health trainers to proceed to a higher level of training implementation. This module prepares them to conduct a training needs assessment, develop detailed plans for training, develop and pilot test a training curriculum, conduct training using more advanced training techniques, conduct training follow up and evaluate training.