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Advance Family Planning (AFP): An Advocacy Project to Increase Access to Quality Family Planning Services

Advance Family Planning (AFP) is an evidence-based, three-year effort designed to help developing countries achieve universal access to reproductive health (MDG 5b). It aims to revitalize family planning programs through increased and more effective funding, and improved policy commitments at the local, national, and global levels. AFP is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The AFP Consortium is led by the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Bill & Melinda Gates Institute. Partners include the Center for Communication Programs at JHU, African Women’s Development Fund, Partners in Population and Development, and Futures Group International.

AFP’s goal is to increase funding and improve policy commitments at all levels of national governments, among bilateral and multilateral donors, and the private sector. It builds on past investments and ongoing activities in reproductive health advocacy, leadership development, knowledge generation, and innovative service delivery projects.

The project focuses on providing policy makers with evidence on why family planning is a sound investment with dividends in terms of health, socio-economic development, the environment, and other areas. The message and the messengers will reflect each country’s situation and the interests of those policy makers.

AFFORD – Health Marketing Initiative

AFFORD began as a five-year (2005-2010) health marketing initiative in partnership with Futures Group International, the Malaria Consortium, Pulse Communication, Aclaim Africa and Communication for Development Foundation of Uganda and funded by USAID. With a three year extension (2011-2013), AFFORD will be led by CCP in partnership with Uganda Health Marketing Group (UHMG) to continue to integrate health communication and social marketing techniques to address a variety of health issues and behaviors in Uganda.

Health Communication Partnership Associate Award Uganda (HCP II AA)

The Health Communication Project Associate Award (HCP II AA) in Uganda, funded by USAID, builds on the foundation of the three-year Health Communication Partnership I (2004-2007) award to change individual behavior, mobilize communities, create an enabling environment for sound health practices and build capacity in health communication The project is led by CCP, in partnership with MOH, Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC), Communication for Development Foundation Uganda (CDFU), Media for Development International (MFDI), Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC), Mango Tree, Makerere University School of Public Health, AIDS Information Centre and the Regional Center for Quality Health Care. The five-year HCP II project uses proven communication approaches to address HIV prevention, AIDS care and treatment, family planning, malaria prevention and treatment and tuberculosis.

Health Initiatives in the Private Sector (HIPS) Project

The Health Initiatives in the Private Sector (HIPS) project, a three-year project funded by USAID, works with the Ugandan business community to ensure access to vital health services for company employees, their dependents and the surrounding community. Led by Emerging Markets Group (EMG), the project provides technical assistance to design and implement comprehensive workplace health programs that maximize accessibility to HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria prevention and treatment services. The project also imparts reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) knowledge. CCP provides technical expertise, partnership brokering and a small grants program to facilitate expanded and improved service delivery, especially to underserved populations and those living in the conflict zones of northern Uganda.

NetWorks

The NetWorks team is composed of JHU∙CCP, Malaria Consortium, Catholic Relief Services, Mennonites Economic Development Association (MEDA), consultants from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and International Procurement Agency (IPA), and a wide range of FBO in-country collaborating organizations. NetWorks is a five-year USAID/Washington global project that partners with country missions to improve and establish sustainable net access and use.

Regional Outreach Addressing AIDS through Development Strategies (ROADS)

The Regional Outreach Addressing AIDS through Development Strategies (ROADS) project, a three-year project funded by USAID, addressed HIV prevention along the transport corridors of East Africa. Led by Family Health International (FHI), ROADS aimed to reduce HIV transmission, improve care, and reduce the impact of HIV and AIDS along Kenya and Uganda’s highways. CCP assisted ROADS in strengthening the institutional and technical capacity of implementing partners, as well as HIV and AIDS professionals. CCP developed approaches and tools for emerging issues, such as alcohol abuse and gender-based violence, and built the capacity of community-based partners to implement effective community outreach.

Roads to a Healthy Future

Roads to a Healthy Future, a four-year project funded by USAID, builds on its predecessor, the Regional Outreach for Addressing AIDS through Development Strategies (ROADS) Project. Led by Family Health International (FHI), Roads to a Healthy Future seeks to fund new approaches and support African regional partners to design and expand HIV prevention and health activities in transport communities in Kenya and Uganda. The purpose of the project is twofold: to increase access to multi-sectoral HIV/AIDS, health, and other services for mobile populations and vulnerable communities along East African transport corridors; and to increase the capacity of African regional institutions to support rapid scale up of innovative practices in HIV and health. CCP partners with African institutions to advance strategic communication in health and development. CCP also provides technical assistance in a number of health areas and support the African Network for Strategic Communication in Health and Development (AfriComNet).

Stop Malaria Project (SMP)

The Stop Malaria Project (SMP), funded by the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and USAID, is designed to assist the Government of Uganda to reach the PMI and Roll Back Malaria goal of reducing malaria-related mortality by 50 percent by 2010. CCP leads SMP in partnership with the Malaria Consortium, Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Communication for Development Uganda (CDFU) and the Uganda Health Marketing Group (UHMG). To achieve its objectives, the project aims to reach 85% coverage for children under five years of age, pregnant women, and people living with HIV/AIDS using proven preventive and therapeutic interventions. These interventions include: Artemesinin-based Combination Therapy (ACTs) for treatment of uncomplicated malaria, Intermittent Presumptive Treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp), and Long-lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLINs). The SMP uses a combination of approaches, including behavior change interventions, service delivery strengthening and institutional capacity building, to rapidly scale-up established interventions for malaria prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

Voices for a Malaria-Free Future

Voices for a Malaria-Free Future (Voices) is a pioneering malaria advocacy project operating in Mali, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, the United States, and at the global partnership level. Funded by the Gates Foundation, Voices works to galvanize governments and partner organizations toward effective malaria control efforts and cultivate malaria champions around the world. Malaria endemic country advocacy emphasizes increased political will, improved policies, stronger management and coordination, while harmonizing with global malaria partnership-building and advocacy in the U.S. for increased malaria funding. Voices leads an integrated, international campaign of advocacy activities to incite and complement advances toward malaria eradication.

Voices III: Malaria Powerbrokers

Voices III: Malaria Powerbrokers is the third iteration of the advocacy project, Voices for a Malaria-Free Future (2006-2009, 2009-2011), which seeks to mobilize political and popular support for malaria control through a variety of strategies and campaigns in four countries—Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the project has worked to expand national movements of powerful private and public sector leaders to resolve malaria control challenges linked to policies, funding and implementation.

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