Elements of Family Planning Success

CARE’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Team is pleased to share our new case study, Keneya Ciwara: Supporting Family Planning in Mali. This case study highlights a program in Mali’s capital, Bamako, that seeks to increase the availability and demand for quality health services at the community level while improving essential health practices in the household. The success of this program depends largely on its system of outreach workers who serve as grassroots advocates for family planning.

By integrating family planning into it's child survival project (2003-2007), Project HOPE created two new youth-friendly clinics and three youth-friendly rooms within clinics in five pilot sub districts in the Navoi oblast with plans to expand these services to other districts in Uzbekistan. Project HOPE's case study "Reaching Out to Youth: Youth Friendly Sexual and Reproductive Health Services through Schools, Clinics, and Communities" highlights the success achieved in increasing access for 31,673 young adults to youth friendly services.

World Vision's innovation in this project was a timed and targeted approach to behavior change communication (BCC) for all project components. That is, BCC on health, nutrition and family planning was timed to a woman's stage of pregnancy, the age of her infant and/or the fertility intentions of the couple. It was targeted to decision-makers in the family, including but not solely to the individual who might accept a contraceptive method.

FHI Ethiopia employees provide background on the HIV and reproductive health situation in Ethiopia. They offer examples of HIV/FP integration activities, describing the approach, systems utilized, client acceptance, and monitoring and evaluation efforts.

There is a substantial unmet need for family planning services among postpartum women and many missed opportunities to provide these services during the pregnancy-extended postpartum period continuum. Practically all of the women interviewed wanted to space their next pregnancy for at least two years and 80 percent of those interviewed before discharge following a hospital delivery said that they would like to start using contraception in the following six months (with 54% wanting to start immediately).

This case study documents CARE’s Extra Mile Initiative that brought education and family planning services to remote communes in Madagascar located in conservation zones that were threatened by the growing population (English version).

This case study reviews how CARE and USAID introduced a family planning program to a remote, war-torn province in the DRC and describes the results achieved and lessons learned (French version).

This case study reviews how CARE and USAID introduced a family planning program to a remote, war-torn province in the DRC and describes the results achieved and lessons learned (English version).