Brief Stage: Proven

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.

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.

Mass Media

Use mass media channels to reach audiences far and wide with messages to support healthy reproductive behaviors.

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.