High Impact Practice Briefs

List of High Impact Practices in Family Planning

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Domestic Public Financing

Increase allocation and efficient use of domestic public financing for voluntary family planning at national and subnational levels to ensure sustainability and resilience of family planning programs.

Educating Girls

Keep girls in school as a foundation for positive sexual and reproductive health behaviors and to promote broader health and development.

Galvanizing Commitment

Galvanize commitment through advocacy, evidence, and accountability to create a supportive environment for family planning programs.

Leading and Managing

Strengthen capacity for leading and managing for excellence in family planning programs and help ensure resources are used effectively to achieve results.

Comprehensive Policy Processes

Comprehensively develop, implement, and monitor policies to support high-quality family planning at scale.

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.

Supply Chain Management

Invest in supply chain management by increasing data visibility and use, accelerating product flow, professionalizing the supply chain workforce, and capitalizing on private sector capacity to make modern contraceptives available.

SBC Overview

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

Community Group Engagement

Engage and mobilize communities in group dialogue and action to promote healthy sexual relationships and change norms to improve sexual and reproductive health.

Digital Health for Social and Behavior Change

As part of an evidence-based multichannel social and behavior change strategy, use digital technologies to support, maintain, and adopt healthy sexual and reproductive behaviors.

Mass Media

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

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.

Social Norms

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

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.

Adolescent-Responsive Contraceptive Services

Apply a systems approach to make existing contraceptive services responsive to the needs and preferences of adolescents.

Digital Health to Support Family Planning Providers

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

Digital Health for Systems

Use digital technologies to support health systems and service delivery for family planning and achieve time and resource efficiencies by helping to bridge physical distance and increase the accuracy and speed of data collection and reporting.

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