Archive for: Family Planning

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March 18, 2021/by Sean Stewart

Empowering Green Volunteers: Tools to Discuss Environment, Health and Population

English Training Material FHI 360, Green Belt Movement Kenya Family Planning, Integration, Population

This training resource was produced by the Green Belt Movement (GBM) and FHI 360 as part of the USAID-supported Program on Research for Strengthening Services (PROGRESS) Project in Kenya. GBM and FHI 360 developed this training manual to prepare Green Volunteers to implement activities that link population, health and the environment. The manual was revised based on feedback from pilot project trainings and research findings. The training manual can be used to guide a training that introduces Green Volunteers to PHE and to family planning, covers healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies, offers skills-building opportunities, demonstrates how to use the PHE flip-book, and reviews basic reporting requirements for the project. The training manual, which is written in English, includes participant handouts in both English and Swahili, reporting forms, and a post-training evaluation form.

Year: 2013

Source: Green Belt Movement | FHI 360

English Brief Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health Global Climate Change, Family Planning, Food Security, Integration, Population

Population

March 18, 2021/by Sean Stewart

By Slowing Population Growth, Family Planning Can Help Address Food Insecurity and Climate Change

Slowing the rapid growth of human population through strengthened voluntary family planning services would powerfully and inexpensively contribute to improvements in food security and the reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. A confluence of long-term environmental and population trends is undermining world food availability and driving climate change. These trends include quickening climate changes and difficulty adapting to its effects; widespread depletion of water, soils and fisheries; increased diversion of grains from human consumption to bio-fuel production and livestock and poultry feed; rapid population growth, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia; and increasing affluence in middle income countries.

Year: 2015

Source: Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health

French Tool/Guide Burkina Faso Ministry of Health, Health Policy Plus Burkina Faso Family Planning, Population

March 18, 2021/by Sean Stewart

Burkina Faso National Plan for Accelerating Family Planning 2017–2020

Burkina Faso’s National Plan for Accelerating Family Planning 2017–2020 is a strategic costed implementation plan developed with technical support from HP+ with a clear vision, strategic objectives, and plan to achieve national family planning goals. The Ministry of Health, with support of technical and financial partners, developed this roadmap to accelerate efforts around family planning and increase the modern contraceptive prevalence rate to 32 percent by 2020. This plan is intended to contribute to a decline in population growth, improvement of maternal and child health, and economic and social development of the country. It is also a tool for resource mobilization and monitoring and evaluation of the activities proposed.

Year: 2017

Source: Health Policy Plus

English Presentation Population Reference Bureau Global Adaptation, Climate Change, Family Planning, Resilience

Population

March 18, 2021/by Sean Stewart

Building Resilience Through Family Planning and Adaptation Finance Webinar

The impacts of climate change—climbing temperatures, extreme weather, drought, shifting rainfall patterns, and rising sea levels—are intensifying around the world. These impacts threaten to undo development progress in poor and vulnerable communities, where rapid population growth and unmet need for family planning contribute to limited capacity to adapt. This webinar provides an overview of the climate finance landscape and explore strategies that the family planning community can use to join with others in efforts to build resilience to climate change impacts. Speakers and participants shared views on ways to forge partnerships for multisectoral climate adaptation projects that are eligible for multilateral climate change adaptation funding. Experiences and perspectives shared may also be useful for other organizations seeking to access this type of climate adaptation funding.

Year: 2018

Source: Population Reference Bureau

March 12, 2021/by Sean Stewart

Building Resilience Through Family Planning and Adaptation Finance

English Brief Population Reference Bureau Global Adaptation, Advocacy, Climate Change, Family Planning

A growing evidence base links women’s met needs for family planning with reduced human vulnerability to climate change and enhanced resilience in the face of climate change impacts. Yet, thus far, population and family planning have been largely left out of adaptation proposals and projects. The PRB policy brief identifies four key strategies the FP/RH community can use to promote inclusion of family planning in adaptation strategies in ways that build resilience, improve health, and enhance women’s economic empowerment. The policy brief includes an example of how to apply these key strategies to a real-world adaptation initiative, showing how the FP/RH community could seize opportunities created by the importance of adapting to climate change and the growing availability of international climate financing to strengthen prospects for FP/RH’s inclusion in multisectoral adaptation plans.

Year: 2018

Source: Population Reference Bureau

English Report Copenhagen Consensus Center Global Family Planning, Population, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

March 12, 2021/by Sean Stewart

Benefits and Costs of the Population and Demography Targets for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

The purpose of this paper is to assess the costs and benefits of targets for population and demography. The authors show that, for high fertility countries, providing universal access to sexual and reproductive health rights and meeting unmet need for contraception are phenomenal targets for the post-2015 agenda. For developed countries with ageing populations, a good strategy is to encourage people to retire later. Furthermore, instead of attempting to increase fertility organically, it is better to expand migration to rejuvenate an ageing population.

Year: 2014

Source: Copenhagen Consensus Center

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Population

March 11, 2021/by Sean Stewart

Assessment of USAID’s Population and Environment Projects and Progamming Options

English Report Global Health Technical Assistance Project Global Family Planning, Integration

The assessment reviews the results of in-country USAID PHE projects, especially on increasing access to quality family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) products and services; determines USAID and the office of Population and Reproductive Health’s (PRH) role in providing technical leadership; identifies barriers and challenges facing the portfolio; and makes suggestions for USAID‘s follow-on strategy for PHE. Among the findings: PHE program results clearly make some contributions to the overall objectives. PHE programs may be particularly useful in facilitating partnership building and leveraging funds from non-USAID sources and may be avenues to learning how best to provide family planning to youth and males. The assessment identifies principal barriers related to inadequate funding, which in turn is linked to the complexity of integrated efforts; the limited evidence base for the integrated PHE program model; and the growing but still limited capacity to implement PHE field programs.

Year: 2007

Source: Global Health Technical Assistance Project

English Brief Advancing Partners & Communities Kenya Conservation, Family Planning, Integration

March 9, 2021/by Sean Stewart

Assessing a Model of Sustainable and Comprehensive PHE in the Lake Victoria Basin of Western Kenya

The USAID-funded Advancing Partners & Communities Project received funding for population, health, and environment (PHE) approaches in East Africa. The Nyanza Reproductive Health Society (NRHS) received an 18-month grant to pilot community PHE approaches in fragile ecosystems with at-risk populations in the Lake Victoria Basin region of Western Kenya. The NRHS team was tasked with creating a sustainable PHE model that integrates all PHE components—population (community-based family planning); health (linkages with the Kenyan health system); environment (conservation of fragile ecosystems, reforestation, beach management, etc.); and significant livelihoods components. This document details challenges, lessons learned and other takeaways regarding the sustainability of the activities.

Year: 2016

Source: Advancing Partners & Communities Project

Conservation

English Report Coastal Resources Center Tanzania Coastal, Community Outreach, Conservation, Family Planning, Integration, Monitoring & Evaluation, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

March 9, 2021/by Sean Stewart

Analyzing Changes in Population, Health and Environment Perceptions and Behaviors in the Saandani National Park, Tanzania

This report shows the results of a Behavior Monitoring Survey conducted in 2012 in the communities around Saadani National Park (SANAPA) in Tanzania and a comparison with the results with those of a similar survey done three years earlier. In 2009, the BALANCED Project started working in the SANAPA area through an ongoing integrated coastal management initiative to develop and deliver integrated PHE messages through peer educators and community-based distributers of family planning commodities. In 2012, the BALANCED team conducted a follow-up survey to assess the changes in behaviors and attitudes resulting from the four years of BALANCED Project interventions. A comparison of results from the 2009 and 2012 surveys shows that the population, socioeconomic, health, and environmental conditions of those living around SANAPA have remained relatively stable between 2009 and 2012. It points as well to increased awareness of family planning and reproductive health FP/RH in the target areas, increased support amongst men for FP/RH, and increased support (by both males and females) for conservation activities.

Year: 2013

Source: The BALANCED Project