Overview
The Sustaining Technical Achievements in Reproductive Health/Family Planning (STARH) project, a six-year project funded by USAID, focused on improving quality and choice of family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) services in Indonesia. Indonesia has undergone dramatic economic, political, and social changes recently, leading the Government of Indonesia to decentralize control of many of its functions to the district level. Led through a partnership between CCP and JHPIEGO, the STARH project worked with the National Family Planning Coordinating Board (BKKBN), the Ministry of Health, the Ministry for Women’s Empowerment, and many local NGOs to promote increased access and improved reproductive health within Indonesia’s newly decentralized system.
Accomplishments
Increasing client demand for quality: The CCP-developed Sahabat campaign encouraged clients to seek quality services, and to see their provider as a “loyal friend” (Sahabat) in the clinic – someone they could trust to give them helpful, informative service to meet their needs.
Adolescent reproductive health: STARH and KuIS (Healthy Indonesia Coalition) held Indonesia 's first conference of adolescent-serving NGOs to look at best practices for adolescent reproductive health services and to provide a forum for professional collaboration.
NGO sustainability: STARH worked with Yayasan Kusuma Buana (YKB), to strengthen the sustainability of RH/FP services provided through the NGO sector. YKB is assisting nine NGOs across Indonesia to make their FP/RH services self-sufficient through CCP’s demand generation methodologies, while still serving their lower-income target populations.
Quality Recognition of Private Sector Midwives (Bidan Delima): Under the leadership of CCP, STARH collaborated with IBI, the Indonesian Midwives Association, to form and launch the Bidan Delima network of high-quality midwives.
Advocacy for family planning and reproductive health: STARH and KuIS convened a monthly Journalists Forum of print and broadcast journalists at the national level in Indonesia. STARH brought technical experts to speak and answer questions on a variety of timely reproductive health topics, resulting in skillful, accurate, and nuanced coverage of reproductive health issues.
Standards and Guidelines for FP/RH clinical services: STARH worked closely with members of POGI (Association of Indonesian OB/GYN), and Yayasan Bina Pustak (a local publishing house) to develop the Family Planning Practical Guidelines. This document represents a consensus set of clinical standards and guidelines for FP providers and was formally adopted by the Government of Indonesia and distributed to service providers across the country.
Clinical training capacity building: STARH developed a Contraceptive Technology Update (CTU) on family planning for use at in-service training centers across the country. STARH also developed a curriculum for updating clinic staff in infection prevention practices that can be used at training centers and service delivery points.
