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How the Echo Platform Helped Drive and Monitor Behavior Change amongst Low-income Teenage Girls

Kenyan girls miss four days of school every month, often due to pain connected to their menstrual cycle, lack of sanitary products and lack of knowledge about their period. This problem is acute in low-income settlements, where sanitary products are costly and hard to find, school facilities are inadequate, and health education is poor.

In 2018, The Case For Her (TCFH) partnered with Echo Mobile to pilot new ways of addressing these access and awareness problems. The “Sheosk” pilot included a training program for girls at low-income schools and the distribution of sanitary products to kiosks in the surrounding areas.

To verify behavior change, assess girls’ ability to pay, and monitor their product choices, TCFH turned to the Echo platform’s powerful SMS features.

The pilot data collected by TCFH through the Echo platform suggests that consumer education and access can have a social impact, and that this impact can be monitored and verified via low-cost, high-access channels like SMS.

Source: ECHO Mobile

Date of Publication: December 6, 2020

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Data on a Dime: Designing an Effective Monitoring & Evaluation Strategy on a Budget

The Safe Mothers, Safe Babies ia maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) program in Uganda.

This page explains the monitoring and evaluation plan developed by the program with their limited resources.

Source: Center for Health Market Innovations

Date of Publication: November 30, 2020

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Covid-19: Five Ways to Avoid Catching the Virus Indoors

This article discusses five ways in which an individual or workplace can ensure that there is proper ventilation in order to lessen the chances of people becoming infected with COVID-19.

The five suggestions are:

  • If it’s stuffy, walk away
  • Look up at the air conditioning (avoid places where air in the room is simply recirculated)
  • Ask about the fresh air ratio
  • Get the office management to check if there’s virus in the filters
  • Watch out for drafts – there are advantages and disadvantages to drafts coming into a room.

Source: BBC News

Date of Publication: November 24, 2020

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Insights for Provider Behavior Change from Qualitative Research in Nairobi

In 2018, Save the Children conducted qualitative research to better understand the influence of social norms on a health worker’s decision to provide contraceptive services to adolescents.

The objective was to explore the root causes of bias via the following questions:

  • What are health workers’ attitudes and beliefs related to contraception for adolescents?
  • What individuals influence health workers’ attitudes and beliefs?
  • How are health workers’ attitudes and beliefs shaped by those influential individuals?

Data were collected in Kibera, the largest informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. Both clinical and non-clinical staff participated. While clinical providers (nurses, physicians, pharmacists) are direct service providers, non-clinical staff (receptionists, housekeeping staff, and security personnel) are often the first facility representatives that an adolescent interacts with. Data collection involved interactive and participatory methods to spark discussions.

Source: Save the Children

Date of Publication: November 24, 2020

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In-clinic Demand Generation for Post Pregnancy Family Planning Services In The Private Sector: A Promising Strategy

The Post Pregnancy Family Planning (PPFP) is a four-year project (2017-2021) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MSD for Mothers that aims to achieve an increase in the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) in Lagos State by reducing ideational barriers linked to knowledge, misperceptions, spousal communication, self-efficacy, and risk perception for post-pregnancy women and families.

This document focuses on innovations in the in-clinic demand generation activities as a promising private sector strategy.

Source: Post Pregnancy Family Planning Project, NURHI

Date of Publication: November 21, 2020

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Modified Clinic Makeover: The Private Sector Experience

The Post Pregnancy Family Planning (PPFP) project (2017-2021) aims to support private sector health providers to provide post-pregnancy clients with the information and services they require to commence the use of family planning services in Lagos State, Nigeria. The Project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and MSD for Mothers.

The post-pregnancy period is defined as the period of pregnancy through one-year post-pregnancy and includes miscarriages and any pregnancy that does not result in a live birth. The project’s family planning activities are not stand­alone but rather integrated along the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) continuum of care services; antenatal, delivery, immunization, postnatal and any interaction the post-pregnancy client has with the healthcare system.

In Lagos State, the private sector provides maternal services to sixty-five percent of the citizens. Formative research revealed that majority of the post-pregnancy clients who patronize the health facilities for antenatal care, delivery, and immunization services are not being counselled on family planning. This is a missed opportunity and provides the occasion to reach women with quality family planning information and services during their multiple contacts with the healthcare system. The PPFP approach utilizes the proven-to-work Nigeria Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) Project model which focuses on service delivery, advocacy, and demand generation through a sustainability lens.

This document focuses on the innovation of 72-hour makeover – a concept initially conceived by the Nigeria Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) project primarily for the public sector­and how it was modified for use in the private sector. Within the private sector context, the activity involves co-implementation with private sector providers to upgrade the physical environment ( clinic structure and equipment) of the facility in line with the national standard for the provision of quality FP services.

The makeover aims to improve the quality of the family planning (FP) clinic setting, make the environment conducive for client-provider interaction, and improve the client experience and satisfaction. The methodology enhances collaboration between the Project and facility owners by encouraging cost-sharing and extension of the makeover process to other areas of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services within the facilities. Till date, the Project has renovated 110 private health facilities, with 51 designated FP spaces.

Source: Post Pregnancy Family Planning Project, NURHI

Date of Publication: November 21, 2020

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Post Pregnancy Family Planning Project

The Post Pregnancy Family Planning is a four-year Project (2017-2021) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Merck for Mothers aimed at providing post-pregnancy clients with the information and services they require to commence the use of family planning services. The Project is implemented in the private sector which provides services to sixty-five per cent of its citizens.

The Post pregnancy period is the period of pregnancy through one-year post-pregnancy, it includes miscarriages and any pregnancy that does not result in a live birth. Project interventions are integrated along the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) continuum of care services; antenatal, delivery, immunization, postnatal and any interaction the post-pregnancy client has with the health system.

In-clinic mobilization is the focus of demand generation activities targeting a high number of women during antenatal and immunization clinics with social mobilization materials specifically developed to address the needs of the post-pregnancy woman and her partner.

The demand generation approaches

  • Increase demand for family planning services among post-pregnant women both in the clinic when they are attending MNCH services and in the communities
  • Reduce ideational barriers linked to knowledge, reduce misperception, spousal communication, self-efficacy, risk perception for post-pregnancy women and families
  • Address the low perception of quality family planning services in the private sector.

Project materials here.

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: November 21, 2020

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Sample Facility Specific Progress Score Card

This report, for the period January-December 2019, reports on various aspects of the project.

Included are statistics on:

Client status and uptake

  • Trend in contraceptive uptake
  • Method Mix for Women
  • Commodity Stock Out
  • Intra-Facility Referral and Contraceptive Uptake

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: November 21, 2020

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Sustaining Access to Voluntary Reproductive Health Care in East Africa: Insights from the COVID-19 Task Force

This piece provides insights from the COVID-19 Youth Task Force on sustaining access to voluntary contraception and reproductive health information and care by youth in East Africa during the pandemic.

Youth and adolescents need special consideration—while they are sometimes neglected, they increasingly make up a bulk of the population. This article articulates the important role of decision makers and technical advisors in enhancing access to voluntary reproductive health care by youth during COVID-19.

Source: Knowledge Success / Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: November 2, 2020

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RAPPORT JOURNEE DES JEUNES 2019 “Jeunes ; Changement Social et de Comportement : Nous en voulons plus”

Dans ce rapport intitulé “Rapport jeune RAPO 2019”, fruit de la contribution de toutes les parties prenantes mais surtout fruit de l’imagination des jeunes, les moments forts de la participation des jeunes à la 8ème Réunion Annuelle qui a fait l’objet d’une séance de débriefing avec le Think Tank Jeune du PO de retour de Cotonou ont été retracés.

In this report entitled “RAPO 2019 Youth Report”, the contributions of the contribution of all stakeholders but above all the contriubtions of the imagination of young people, the highlights of youth participation in the 8th Annual Meeting, which was the subject of a debriefing session with the Youth Think Tank of the OP back from Cotonou, are recounted.

Source: Partenariat de Ouagadougou

Date of Publication: October 28, 2020

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