Elements of Family Planning Success Toolkit

This toolkit contains more than two dozen audio and video interviews with family planning experts, up-to-date background and reference materials, job aids and other tools, PowerPoint presentations, books, manuals, briefs, case studies, fact sheets, newsletters, pamphlets, posters, project reports, reviews, and teaching and training materials. Resources listed are from more than 80 organizations.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, FHI 360, ICF International, WellShare International

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Dads Can Do That! Toolkit

Alive & Thrive is an initiative in Vietnam aimed at improving infant and young child feeding by increasing rates of exclusive breastfeeding and improving complementary feeding practices.

This case study kit explores how program planners can use data to design smart interventions that shape a father’s role in child health. The kit includes an introductory video, a literature review, and materials used in two countries.

Source: Alive & Thrive

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

eToolkit for Program Managers

This Toolkit is for policy makers, program managers, service providers, advocates, and others. It provides links to guidelines, research, curricula, communication materials, job aids, case studies, and other tools to plan, manage, deliver, evaluate, and support Health, Population and Nutrition services.

The Bangladesh BCC Working Group, with technical support from BKMI, developed this toolkit, and vetted the resources for inclusion.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

HIV/AIDS Prevention and Gender Tool: “Tchova Tchova Historias de Vida” Community Dialogues

Tchova Tchova Histórias de Vida – TTHV™ is a unique methodology designed for the Mozambican context to promote gender equity, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment adherence, participatory development and collective action. TTHV™ was adapted from an earlier model developed by JHU in Africa (“African Transformation”) and the Middle East (“Arab Women Speak Out™”). TTHV™ applies a transformational approach to facilitate social and behavioral change through a process of community dialogue, in which women and men discuss and explore risk factors and critically examine how social and gender norms operate in their own lives, their families and communities. The TTHV™ tool kit included 10 videos and written profiles of Mozambican “positive deviant” men, women and couples telling their stories of how they overcame gender, cultural and social barriers to make positive changes in their lives with a specific focus on HIV treatment and prevention. An 11th session, “Building a cohesive community to solve problems” was created aimed at developing group action plans to advocate for new social/gender norms and HIV preventive behaviors among community members. The set of materials includes the following video profiles:

  • Social Roles: What Men Can Do
  • Tradition and Cultural Norms
  • Social Roles: What Women Can Do
  • How to Overcome Domestic Violence
  • Dialogue on Condom Use
  • Serodiscordant Couples

Also included are the following facilitation guides:

  • Field Activities Monitoring and Supervision Guide
  • Success Stories
  • Key Points (Lembrancas)
  • Session Facilitation Guide Part I
  • Session Facilitation Guide Part II
  • Session Facilitation Guide Part III
  • Written Profiles 1-3
  • Written Profiles 4-6
  • Written Profiles 7-10
  • Historias da Vide

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Malaria in Pregnancy Resource Package

This resource package provides tools including training resources, programming resources, and reference materials to help implement programs that will reduce malaria in pregnancy and provide effective treatment for pregnant women with malaria. It includes job aids for clinical trainers and health care providers to help them provide correct information for clients and their families about malaria in pregnancy. The Package is aimed at policymakers, public health professionals, and managers. The Focused Antenatal Care job aid provides an overview of what providers should do at each of four scheduled antenatal care visits, and information to help the client as she prepares for the birth. The Malaria during Pregnancy job aid includes important facts about malaria, and preventing malaria in pregnancy through intermittent preventive treatment and insecticide-treated nets. Also included in the package are examples of job aids from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Tanzania.

Source: JHPIEGO

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Continuous Distribution Toolkit

This online toolkit combines current guidance and tools that can support planners and managers of continuous Insecticide-Treated Nets (ITN) distribution programs. A practical guide to planning and management, it also ensures that all currently available resources that support the planning, management, and implementation processes are easily accessible.

This toolkit can support planners and managers of continuous ITN distribution programs. In most cases, they will be the same people who plan and manage ITN distribution strategies overall; this is important because continuous ITN distribution should not take place in a vacuum, but rather should be part of an overall strategy to increase and maintain universal access with ITNs for populations at risk of malaria. Other tools support planning and management of ITN campaign distributions; for example, the Alliance for Malaria Prevention, and the partners’ toolkit for mass campaign distribution can be found at http://allianceformalariaprevention.com/amp-tools/amp-toolkit/.

This guide contains information and resources in many different formats, which will ensure that the needs of each toolkit user can be met in the most efficient way.

The toolkit is comprised of the following sections:

  • Background provides information on the overview of the overall ITN strategy planning and to CD, international recommendations, and guidance; it also includes brief descriptions of the range of the available CD channels. Users first looking to ground their planning and thinking in the context of overall ITN policies and strategies will find this section particularly useful.
  • Choosing CD Channels is a step-by-step guide to selecting the most appropriate CD channels for a given setting—the selection of channels will be documented in the CD section of the national ITN strategy. Tools and templates are provided at relevant points.
  • CD Step-by-Step Implementation is a step-by-step guide to the process of planning and implementing a specific CD channel. Tools and templates to support planning and management are provided at relevant points.
  • Country Examples presents ITN strategies and implementation plans developed by country partners as well as country examples of how CD channels have been implemented.
  • Resources include all the documents, tools, and templates linked throughout this website, cataloged in one place for download.

This post is also available in Français (French)

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Community Mobilisation Toolkits and Fact Sheet

These toolkits were produced and used as part of the Moyo ndi Mpbamba project in Malawi to guide the community mobilization process in target districts. The community mobilization strategy is considered “Toolkit 1,” attached to this page are Tookits 2-5 as well as a fact sheet describing the community mobilization effort.

This project used Community Action Committees, or CACs, to mobilize communities to address six Essential Health Package (EHP) areas—malaria; nutrition; MNCH; family planning; HIV/AIDS and TB; and water, sanitation, and hygiene.

Source: SSDI-Communication

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

GREAT Scalable Toolkit

The Gender Roles, Equality and Transformations (GREAT) Project works to improve gender equity and reproductive health in Northern Uganda. GREAT uses radio drama, community mobilization, and small group discussions to promote dialogue and reflection among adolescents, with the goal of facilitating the formation of gender equitable norms and the adoption of attitudes and behaviors which may positively influence health outcomes among boys and girls, aged ten to 29.

This toolkit was developed as the centerpiece of the project and includes the following materials for use with small groups: activity cards, fact cards, flipbooks, game instructions and question cards, and discussion guides to accompany a year-long radio serial drama. (Scripts, recordings and development process description are available upon request.) The materials and activities are tailored to the lifecourse and designed to be scalable. The materials were also produced in local languages (Luo and Acholi).

Source: The Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University, Pathfinder International, and Save the Children, with USAID funding (Mango Tree was local production house)

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Capacity Assessment Tool

The Capacity Assessment Tool is used to evaluate the Social Behavior Change Communication and Knowledge Management skills and abilities of SBCC professionals. It is used for planning future capacity strengthening activities, and dicovering where, within an organization, an area of skill needs development.

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Adolescents’ HIV Prevention and Treatment Literacy Toolkit for Eastern and Southern Africa

This is a set of materials for working with adolescents.

The purposes of the toolkit are:

  • Create open advocacy spaces for adolescent HIV prevention and treatment issues
  • Strengthen the capacity of the key custodians of adolescent education systems and structures at community level (teachers and school staff, counsellors, service providers) to further engage adolescents and their circles of care
  • Scale-up availability of and access to information on adolescent HIV prevention and treatment at the local level

The tookit consists of:

  • Facilitator’s guide
  • Reference materials
  • Workbook for ages 10-12
  • Workbook for ages 13-15
  • Workbook for ages 16-19
  • Quiz cards
  • Personal responsiblity list
  • Teacher’s guide

Source: SafAIDS

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019