Tag: Family Planning

INTRODUCTION West Africa has one of the highest fertility rates in the world at 5.5 children per woman (Ouagadougou Partnership 2011). The region also has one of the lowest contraceptive prevalence rates (19.1%) and one of the highest rates of unmet need for contraception (27.2%) in the world (Ouagadougou Partnership 2011). The resulting large number […]

A new video showcasing the Training Resource Package (TRP) by www.fptraining.org has been pubished. The Training Resource Package (TRP) for Family Planning is designed to address the dynamic professional needs of health workers across all clinical and community-based cadres and for adaptation and use for ‘in-service’ and ‘pre-service’ competency-based training.  The Package includes modules, training […]

Introduction: In francophone West Africa (FWA), contraceptive uptake remains limited, often due to geographic, economic, and social barriers. With technical support from The Challenge Initiative (TCI), municipalities and health systems implemented Family Planning Special Days (FPSDs) to improve family planning (FP) uptake and reduce high unmet need. The FPSD intervention consisted of organizing free FP […]

The Guttmacher Institute is pleased to announce the release of the Family Planning Investment Impact Calculator, an interactive tool designed to help advocates, donors and governments estimate the benefits that would accrue from investing in family planning programs and services in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).This tool offers a new way to showcase how access […]

This webinar presented on April 26, 2022, focused on how social and behavior change programming is well suited to addressing equity and social determinants of health in family planning/reproductive health. It also explored how to apply these to efforts for social and structural change pertaining to contraceptive autonomy and reproductive empowerment. Presentations featured the voices and […]

The Women’s Refugee Commission completed a landscaping assessment from 2018–2020 to evaluate and build the evidence base on barriers, opportunities, and effective strategies to provide contraceptive services to women and girls affected by crises. Despite some progress made toward making contraceptives available in humanitarian settings, contraceptive service provision continues to be a gap in humanitarian […]

The PACE Project by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is delighted to announce an exciting update of our Choices and Challenges tool, which highlights trends in women’s contraceptive uptake, discontinuation, and method-switching by age group, as well as reasons for discontinuation and related reproductive outcomes, in an accessible, user-friendly format. Our 2022 update now includes […]

Knowledge Success have release new interactive data charts exploring the question: COVID-19 was expected to have devastating impacts on family planning. Did it?  Connecting the Dots between Evidence and Experience is a new series that combines the latest evidence with implementation experiences to help technical advisors and program managers understand emerging trends in family planning and […]

This Strategic Planning Guide is intended to lead program managers, planners, national policy makers, and other stakeholders through a strategic process to coordinate the introduction of contraceptive methods through public and private access channels. The guide was developed through consultation with technical experts and summarizes guidance from key resources for method introduction. It provides an […]

Prevalence and factors associated with family planning during COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted health systems worldwide, including Bangladesh, limiting access to family planning information (FP) and services. This study examined the socioeconomic, demographic, and other critical factors linked to the use of FP in the studied areas […]