Brief Category: Service Delivery

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.

Immediate Postpartum Family Planning

Offer contraceptive counseling and services as part of facility-based childbirth care prior to discharge from the health facility.

Family Planning and Immunization Integration

Offer family planning information and services proactively to women in the extended postpartum period during routine child immunization contacts to promote healthy birth spacing and reduce unintended pregnancies.

Pharmacies and Drug Shops

Expand choice and access in the private sector by training and supporting pharmacies and drug shops to provide family planning information and a broad range of quality contraceptive methods.

Social Marketing

Use marketing principles and techniques to shape the provision of contraceptive services and products to improve access, choice, and use for target populations.

Postabortion Family Planning

Proactively offer voluntary contraceptive counseling and services at the same time and location where women receive facility-based postabortion care to reduce unintended pregnancies.