Elements of Family Planning Success

The Balanced Counseling Strategy Plus (BCS+) is a practical, interactive, client-friendly strategy to facilitate integration of voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, within family planning service. This toolkit uses three key job aids (visual memory aids) for counseling on family planning, STI risk assessment, and method choice. Experience in Kenya and South Africa shows use of the BCS+ job aids improved the quality of services and counseling and increased the uptake of family planning and VCT.

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 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.

The Training and Reference Guides for Family Planning Screening Checklists are a series of four publications designed for program managers, administrators, trainers, and service providers interested in learning how to use the checklists to screen women wishing to initiate use of family planning methods, including combined oral contraceptives (COCs), injectables (DMPA and NET-EN), the copper intrauterine device (IUD), and implants (available soon).

Produced in collaboration with Save the Children USA, this step-by-step guide explains how to introduce injectable contraceptives — such as Depo Provera (or DMPA) — into an existing community-based distribution (CBD) program.

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.

The Logistics Handbook explains the major aspects of logistics management with an emphasis on contraceptive supplies. It is intended to help managers who work with supplies every day, as well as managers who assess and design logistics systems for entire programs.

This is a comprehensive guide to DMPA provision by community health workers. It is easy to follow and contains illustrated information about the effects of DMPA, who is eligible to use DMPA, when to use DMPA and how to administer DMPA.