Elements of Family Planning Success

This framework is a guide for our IPPF Member Associations and affiliated/partner organisations.

It builds upon, and complements, existing frameworks and provides an IPPF perspective on peer education.

It can be used by:

- programme designers
- managers
- coordinators
- senior managers overseeing larger peer education initiatives
- supervisors
- trainers
- young people

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.

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This toolkit serves to reinforce the benefits of working with young men and provides conceptual and practical information on how to design, implement and evaluate HIV/AIDS prevention activities which incorporate a gender perspective and engage young men and relevant stakeholders. Available in Portuguese and Spanish.

The purpose of this book is to share a set of steps and tools with those in the field to help ensure that behavior change communication efforts are developed strategically— with participation from all stakeholders, clear goals, segmented audiences, and effective messages based on sound research and credible theory. The text is based on many years of experience in the field and is supplemented with real-world examples and case studies.

This manual looks at the role of health communication in disease prevention and control. The health communication process stages are detailed: planning and stategy development; developing and pretesting concepts, messages, and materials; implementing the program; and assessing effectiveness and making refinements. Communication research methods, planning forms, samples, frameworks, theories and additional resources are also covered.

This tool serves as a step-by-step guide to creating a successful community mobilization plan. It provides an explanation of the seven stages of mobilization with specific case studies for each stage and a description of the major problems associated with each. Users are provided with a sample community mobilization plan, worksheets to highlight the most important elements as well as tools to help with research.

This document provides a quick reference guide to the sustainability continuum discussed in detail in Moving Toward Sustainability: Transition Strategies for Social Marketing Programs.