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.

Family Health International's Contraceptive and Reproductive Health Technologies and Research Utilization (CRTU) program is pleased to announce the release of a new family planning checklist for screening clients who want to initiate the use of contraceptive implants.

A large gap still exists between the spheres of research and practice, leading to delays of a decade or longer before widespread use of conclusive evidence. The "Menu of Practices" aims to bridge this gap by ensuring that policy-makers, health practitioners, and other decision-makers are able to quickly and efficiently access, understand, and implement recommendations stemming from new and under-used research findings in reproductive health and family planning.

This course highlights key program elements that can be monitored, such as supply inventories, number of vaccine doses administered monthly, and patient outcomes. It specifies the requirements for evaluations, such as data collection, control groups, and a well-planned study design.

This article details the key aspects of measurement and evaluation for international reproductive health - standardization of care, focus on health outcomes, and how to measure individual and organizational performance.

The Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) tool is a well organized set of modules that supports the implementation of a continuous quality improvement program to improve family planning services. The tool consists of ten modules that are to be conducted monthly with the help of a trained facilitator or facilitators drawn from the same organization. Each module contains a facilitator’s guide, visual aides, and participant materials.

This tool is a computerized instrument for supervisors of family planning services to assess the facility and personnel readiness to provide family planning. The tool seeks to identify the strengths and weaknesses of family planning supervision and allow the supervisors to provide constructive feedback and guidance to service providers and administrators.

This tool provides guidelines, based on practical experience in Western Pacific countries, for the development of information systems as an aid to the more effective management of health services. Emphasizing the complexities involved in efforts to improve the timeliness, quality, accessibility and use of health-related data, the book aims to help health authorities and senior managers think through all steps of the planning process before any decisions are made or resources committed.