Family Planning & Reproductive Health

IntraHealth supports the fundamental human right of all people to plan the number, timing, and spacing of their children. We help countries provide high-quality family planning (FP) and reproductive health services by building the capacity of the health workforce and local leaders, strengthening health systems, and increasing demand for and access to services.

Key Results

590,970 new contraceptive users in 2023

213,755 unintended pregnancies averted in 2023 due to contraceptives (estimated)

1,324,591 years of protection from unwanted pregnancies provided to couples in 2023 through contraceptives

Our key approaches:

Integrating FP with other services to increase access and improve health system efficiency
Catalyzing local leadership, organizations, and resources for sustainable FP programming that adapts high-impact practices to local contexts
Mobilizing partnerships, coalitions, and political will to advance and coordinate FP services
Addressing sociocultural and gender barriers to FP through social influencers and behavioral science
Engaging and reaching youth and other underserved populations
Improving clinical training, gender equity, and work environments to build a diverse, skilled FP workforce that provides respectful care.

Selected Achievements

Saw a 275% increase in postpartum FP use in facilities implementing a service integration model in 8 West African countries between 2019-2023.

Strengthened the capacity of district leaders, local partners, health workers, and communities to expand access to integrated services in eastern Uganda, resulting in a 79% increase in new users of FP from 2017-2023.

Supported cities in 5 West African countries to mobilize their own political will and more than $830,000 of their own resources for FP, adding over 380,000 FP users in the past 5 years.

Partnered with 364 FP youth ambassadors from five West African countries by training them to serve as FP advocates to their peers and policymakers, including through social media, reaching more than 100,000 adolescents through youth-led campaigns.

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Resources

Family Planning Overview Brief

IntraHealth International's FP2030 Commitment

Placement of Dedicated Family Planning Providers to Broaden Method Choice and Increase Contraceptive Access and Uptake: Experience from South Sudan

Association of Men’s Exposure to Family Planning Programming and Reported Discussion with Partner and Family Planning Use: The Case of Urban Senegal

Liftoff: The Blossoming of Contraceptive Implant Use in Africa

Understanding and Addressing Contraceptive Stockouts to Increase Family Planning Access and Uptake in Senegal

Family Planning & Reproductive Health

Key Results

Our key approaches:

Selected Achievements

Saw a 275% increase in postpartum FP use in facilities implementing a service integration model in 8 West African countries between 2019-2023.

Strengthened the capacity of district leaders, local partners, health workers, and communities to expand access to integrated services in eastern Uganda, resulting in a 79% increase in new users of FP from 2017-2023.

Supported cities in 5 West African countries to mobilize their own political will and more than $830,000 of their own resources for FP, adding over 380,000 FP users in the past 5 years.

Mentored almost 15,000 community health workers as part of Rwanda’s Community-Based Program on FP, contributing to a 64% increase in new FP users in supported districts between 2018-2022.

Partnered with 364 FP youth ambassadors from five West African countries by training them to serve as FP advocates to their peers and policymakers, including through social media, reaching more than 100,000 adolescents through youth-led campaigns.

Reduced contraceptive stockout rates to as low as 2% in Senegal using our Informed Push Model for supply chain management.

Improved the quality of preservice family planning education for nurses and midwives in Tanzania and Uganda

Increased family planning knowledge in policymakers and trainers by 40% after workshops on the Training Resource Package in Tanzania and Uganda

Provided family planning services for 72,600+ people in South Sudan.

Supported eight health districts in Burkina Faso and Senegal in implementing a strategy of systematic referral for family planning services in its role as TCI accelerator hub

Created youth ambassador programs in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal to train and mentor youth advocates for family planning.

Provided training for 8,500+ health workers in Kenya to provide services in family planning, HIV, and maternal and child health services.

Increased family planning acceptance among clients in Mali from 12% to 78% by integrating family planning services with services for obstetric fistula.

Partnered with imams, journalists, and civil society members (who have since visited 14,000+ households) in Senegal to dispel myths around family planning and make services more widely available.

Increased the number of new clients who choose modern methods of contraception by 64% in 100 health facilities in Senegal, after the facilities implemented our performance improvement and mentoring approach, TutoratPlus.

Mentored Council Health Management teams in Tanzania to give feedback and follow up on improvement plans, resulting in 99 Tanzanian health facilities offering at least five types of family planning methods

Helped 202 postpartum women understand and use a family planning method in Nepal.

In 2019, served over 7,500 people in Juba, Nimule, and Yambio, South Sudan, with HIV prevention information and commodities, HIV testing, and linkage to HIV treatment services, sexually transmitted infections screening and treatment, and family planning.

In Kenya, deployed an interactive voice response eLearning platform that uses mobile phones to reinforce family planning learning for nurses and nursing students, increasing their retention of valuable information using technology they already own

Established regional training hubs that have trained 8,000+ health workers in critical areas such as HIV, family planning, and maternal, newborn, and child health.

Created and implemented a gender strategy in Madagascar for the Top Réseau social franchise to address gender inequities related to access to and use of family planning and other essential health services.

In Madagascar, trained over 250 health care providers on long-acting and permanent family planning methods, child survival, nutrition, and post-abortion care.

Resources

Family Planning Overview Brief

IntraHealth International's FP2030 Commitment

Placement of Dedicated Family Planning Providers to Broaden Method Choice and Increase Contraceptive Access and Uptake: Experience from South Sudan

Association of Men’s Exposure to Family Planning Programming and Reported Discussion with Partner and Family Planning Use: The Case of Urban Senegal

Liftoff: The Blossoming of Contraceptive Implant Use in Africa

Understanding and Addressing Contraceptive Stockouts to Increase Family Planning Access and Uptake in Senegal

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