Brief Category: Briefs

Community Health Workers

By systematically selecting and training CHWs and providing them with sustainable financial, administrative, and regulatory support, national health systems can extend benefits of CHWs to large populations and improve overall equity in knowledge of and access to health care, including family planning.

Family Planning Mobile Outreach Services

Mobile outreach service delivery provides a wide range of family planning services and methods, including short-acting, long-acting, reversible, and permanent methods, in locations chosen to reach populations with diverse access challenges and barriers.

Contraceptive Self-Care

Approaches to contraceptive self-care encompass a range of technologies, practices, delivery channels, and social and behavior changes to facilitate greater control over one’s reproductive health.

Social Norms

Implement interventions that address social norms to support an individual’s or couple’s decision-making power to meet their reproductive intentions.

Promoting healthy couples’ communication to improve reproductive health outcomes

Implement interventions to encourage couples to discuss family planning/reproductive health and make equitable, joint decisions to reach fertility intentions.

Knowledge, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Self-efficacy

Implement interventions to strengthen an individual’s ability to achieve their reproductive intentions by addressing their knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and self-efficacy.

Social Accountability to improve family planning information and services

Engage communities and health sector actors to jointly identify problems, and to implement and monitor solutions to hold each other accountable for improvements in the quality and responsiveness of family planning services.

Enabling Environment Overview

Describes the set of interlinked groups of practices that provide the framework for FP: (1) policies, legislation, financing; (2) institutions, governance, and management; and (3) social and economic factors.

Digital Health to Support Family Planning Providers

Use digital technologies to support service providers' knowledge and capacity in delivering quality contraceptive services.

SBC Overview

Describes how SBC helps understand and address determinants of FP behavior and identify channels for programming.