Elements of Family Planning Success

Plan International implemented the Forest Region Sustainable Community-Based Reproductive and Sexual Health Project, a 3.5-year intervention to increase knowledge and use of family planning in five prefectures of Guinea's forest region. In partnership with the Association Guinenne pour le Bien-Etre Familiale (AGBEF), Plan International used a community-based approach that included recruiting and training nearly 800 community-based services agents to offer information, some modern methods, and referrals to women, men, and couples in the project zone.

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The Ministry of Health and its cooperating partners have embarked on a major effort to strengthen the supply chain for essential drugs (ED). This project is implemented by the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) with support from the World Bankfunded Medical Stores Limited (MSL), JSI Logistics Services, and the USG-funded USAID | DELIVER PROJECT.

This compendium was developed with the help of many individuals. At the request of the USAID East Africa Regional Mission with the Inter-agency Gender Working Group (USAID), MEASURE Evaluation developed this compendium in collaboration with a technical advisory group (TAG) of experts. The goal was to develop a set of monitoring and evaluation indicators for program managers, organizations, and policy makers who are working to address violence against women and girls (VAW/G) at the individual, community, district/provincial and national levels in developing countries.

The pilot was designed using ACQUIRE’s FP-ART integration framework, which outlines five levels of integrating FP into HIV services. Facilities can choose from the levels, and can add to them progressively, depending on their capabilities and resource (Farrell, 2007). TASO/M integrated to Level C. It provides four modern FP methods—condoms (already offered for HIV/STI prevention), oral contraceptives, injectables, and emergency contraceptive pills—along with referrals for long-acting and permanent methods (LAPMs) to the Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, located a few yards from TASO/M.

The Private Sector Partnerships-One (PSP-One) project and the World Health Organization’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research (WHO/RHR) continue to work together in support of increasing access to reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) through the private health sector in Africa. In December 2006, PSP-One and WHO/RHR co-sponsored a consultation meeting on Public Policy and Reproductive Health Franchising and produced a joint guidance note on the evidence and future direction of private provider networks and franchising of RH/FP services.

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This manual is intended to promote positive health outcomes for mothers, newborns, and infants by improving health workers' skills in fostering healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy (HTSP). It provides practical information and guidance on how to conduct a two-day training for primary health facility-based health workers in providing postpartum family planning information, education, and counselling, and in increasing postpartum women's access to all family planning (FP) methods and services.

ACCESS-FP is pleased to announce the publication of a global package on "Comprehensive Postpartum Family Planning Care." Globally, between 90 and 95% of postpartum women would like to prevent having another baby in the next two years. This is a new training package that addresses the need for family planning during the extended postpartum period.

This document highlights the Village Health Committee (VHC), a vital player in the child survival project and the integration of family planning work within Save the Children's portfolio in Guinea. The document briefly describes the committee's purpose, membership, and tasks. It focuses on a handful of the people and activities that exemplified the VHCs' unique role in ensuring that family planning was not only accessible but acceptable to the villagers they served. The document concludes with some outcomes of Save the Children's family planning component in Mandiana and Kouroussa.