Scaling Up Family Planning Services in Africa through Christian Health...
This presentation introduces the Africa Christian Health Association (CHA) Platform, CHA health service coverage; challenges to family planning services; and opportunities and strategies for scaling up...
View ArticleIncreasing Access to Family Planning (FP) and Reproductive Health (RH)...
This literature review attempted to evaluate the evidence base on the use of task-shifting between community health workers and mid-level providers to increase access to family planning and...
View ArticleScale-Up of Task Shifting for Community-Based Provision of Impanon
This technical brief presents a project in Ethiopia focused on scaling-up efforts in underserved rural communities to enable access to long-acting family planning at the village level through...
View ArticleIntegrating Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Services: Health Workforce...
Governments and the global health community are increasingly paying attention to maximizing and measuring impact through service delivery integration efforts in family planning/HIV service integration....
View ArticleConscientious Objection and Reproductive Health Service Delivery in...
Lack of access to quality reproductive health services is the main contributor to the high maternal mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. This is partly due to a shortage of qualified and...
View ArticleAddressing the Need: Lessons for Service Delivery Organizations on Delivering...
This primer aims to provide clear lessons and recommendations to help service delivery organizations and program managers establish, implement, and strengthen contracting arrangements. The primer draws...
View ArticleFilling the Gap: Lessons for Policymakers and Donors on Contracting Out...
Focusing on the demand-side (governments and donors) of contracting out with the private sector, the primer describes the concept of contracting out, discusses its rationale and process, and summarizes...
View ArticleInvolvement of the Private Sector in Reproductive Health and Family Planning...
This was a review of secondary evidence - published and grey literature - on the involvement of the private sector in the provision of reproductive health and family planning services in the East,...
View ArticleTraining Resource Package for Family Planning
This resource contains curriculum components and tools needed to design, implement, and evaluate training. It offers essential resources for family planning and reproductive health trainers,...
View ArticleProvision of Injectable Contraceptives in Ethiopia through Community-Based...
The objective of this study was to determine if, with appropriate training, volunteers known as community-based reproductive health agents can administer injectable contraceptives to women in a rural...
View ArticleUsing Mobile Technology to Support Family Planning Counseling in the Community
This paper from the International Conference on ICT for Africa reports on a mobile phone application designed to support community health workers in providing family planning counseling to their...
View ArticleCommunity-Based Family Planning Toolkit
This toolkit contains resources to help policy makers, program managers, service providers, and other audiences improve access to and quality of community-based family planning services. [from publisher]
View ArticleFrom Housewife to Health Worker: Touching Other Lives and Changing My Own
This interview with Shaheen Hussain of Pakistan tells the story of how she became a field-based health educator with a social franchise of private reproductive health care providers and is a testimony...
View ArticleExploring Contraceptive Use Differentials in Sub-Saharan Africa through a...
This technical brief presents findings from a study that explored if and how health workforce measures differ between eastern and western Africa, in an effort to identify factors that may have helped...
View ArticleCase Study: Does Training of Private Networks of Family Planning Clinicians...
This study aimed to determine whether training of providers participating in franchise clinic networks is associated with increased family planning service use among low-income urban families in Pakistan.
View ArticleShaping Legal Abortion Provision in Ghana: Using Policy Theory to Understand...
This study investigated the reasons for poor implementation of the legal abortion policy in Ghana using Lipsky’s theory of street-level bureaucracy to better understand how providers shape and...
View ArticleClient-Centered Counseling Improves Client Satisfaction with Family Planning...
High levels of unmet need for family planning and high contraceptive discontinuation rates persist in Jordan, prompting the initiation a client-centered family planning service program with...
View ArticleIslam and Family Planning: Changing Perceptions of Health Care Providers and...
The authors evaluated the effectiveness of a training for facility-based health care providers, managers, and medical college faculty members that offered client-centered family planning services,...
View ArticleOperations Research to Add Postpartum Family Planning to Maternal and...
This article documents the intervention package and evaluation design of a study conducted in a rural district of Bangladesh to evaluate the effects of an integrated, community-based maternal and...
View ArticleRole of Community-Based Health Planning and Services Strategy in Involving...
This study evaluated the effect of a program that trained community health nurses and relocated them to the community to provide door-to-door services on the level of male involvement in family...
View Article
