Type of Material: Success Story

HIPs Implementation Tools Project
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HIPs Implementation Tools Project

Launched in 2022, the HIPs Implementation Tools project aims to compile crucial resources for FP/RH practitioners, that provide guidance on effectively implementing and expanding the Family Planning High Impact Practices (HIPs). Responding to the growing need for resources that not only explain the effectiveness of the family planning HIPs, but that also offer practical guidance on implementing and scaling up these practices, the project collaborated in 2023 with FP/RH technical experts and implementers. Together, they published an initial set of resource collections focused on implementing and scaling up 7 selected Service Delivery and Social and Behavior Change HIPs. In October 2024, with additional expert support, the project released a new set of resource collections covering 8 additional family planning HIPs and HIP enhancements. Within each collection, viewers can find accessible knowledge products designed to help FP/RH professionals strengthen the implementation and scale-up of these HIPs in their programming. (Un petit nombre de ressources et d’études de cas sont disponibles en français pour chaque dossier.)

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: November 15, 2024

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Success Story: Media Development and Capacity Building in Action

The Ghana Communicate for Health Project ran from 2015-2019. As part of its efforts to address regional perspectives and needs, Communicate for Health conducted two collaborative workshops to discuss region-specific audience research and design creative materials that would address identified social and behavioral barriers and benefits in key health areas.

Both workshops engaged multiple private sector design partners, regional health promotion officers (RHPOs), technical focal persons for malaria and nutrition, representatives of local media houses, USAID implementing partners (IPs), and other regional stakeholders to produce GoodLife materials for their areas of the country.

Both workshops featured intensive SBCC capacity building experiences for participants while strengthening networks for sustainable regional collaboration.

In an evaluation of the workshop process and outcomes, participants gave the overall experience a score of 8.3 out of a possible 10 points, indicating a high level of learning and satisfaction. Some said the workshop was the first time they had the opportunity to work on each step of material development—from a creative brief to actual production. Many appreciated the opportunity to review audience research for their particular areas.

Source: Communicate for Health Ghana

Date of Publication: January 28, 2020

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Community Dialogues for Child Health

This Learning Brief summarizes a qualitative process evaluation conducted to assess communities’ response to a community dialogue approach, after one year of implementation in rural settings of three countries (Mozamique, Uganda and Zambia), in terms of outreach, relevance and intermediate results.

The study finds that community dialogues can be a powerful approach to make health promotion activities of community-based volunteers more participatory and effective in addressing social norms around child care practices, particularly in setting new social norms for early care-seeking at community health worker point of care.

Source: Malaria Consortium

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Diva Centres Project, Zambia

A teens-only approach to contraception is getting girls the services they need to make the choices that are right for them.

In Zambia, a radical new approach to contraception is giving adolescent girls the information and services they need to make their own choices and take control of their futures. At the Diva Centres, girls do their nails while having informal conversations about boys and sex. They hang out with friends, learn about contraception in their own terms from trained peers, and, when they’re ready, receive counseling and access to a variety of short and long-term birth control methods in a safe and judgment-free environment from a trained professional. In this safe environment, girls begin to connect birth control with their future aspirations and get the information they need to make smart decisions from a safe and trusted resource.

By taking a human-centered approach, and spending weeks immersed in the lives and aspirations of Zambian teens, the team designed a multi-touchpoint approach to getting girls the contraception they need.

For girls who visited one of the three Diva Centres, 82% got contraceptive services and 36% returned for another visit.

Source: IDEO, Marie Stopes Zambia

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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