Archive for: Family Planning

Healthy People, Healthy Ecosystems: A Manual on Integrating Health and Family Planning into Conservation Projects

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Several conservation organizations integrate health and family planning with conservation projects. This integration has multiple benefits. Often conservation practitioners recognize the potential value of integrated PHE (population-health-environment) projects, but need guidance on how to effectively incorporate P and H components into their project or on how to create a PHE project from scratch. This manual was created as a resource for these practitioners. It reviews not only the how, but also the why and what of PHE projects. The manual defines PHE as projects that integrate health and/or family planning with conservation activities, thereby seeking synergistic successes and greater conservation and human welfare outcomes than if they were implemented in single-sector approaches.

Year: 2008

Source: World Wildlife Fund

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    Changes in Household Well-Being and Resilience: 2011-2016

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    This document details the results of a household follow-­on survey and outcome assessment for the Tuungane (‘let’s unite’ in Kiswahili) project, which is working near Mahale Mountains National Park in Uvinza District of Tanzania’s Kigoma Region. The survey was implemented in August 2016. Tuungane is a project that simultaneously addresses population, health and environmental issues. This type of project is known globally as a ‘PHE project’.

    Year: 2017

    Source: Tuungane Project

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      Health of People and Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin

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      Multimedia overview of the HoPE-LVB project, which was a PHE project implemented by Pathfinder International from 2011–2019 in the Lake Victoria basin region of Kenya and Uganda.

      Year: 2019

      Source: Pathfinder International

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        Linking Family Planning to Resilience in the Sahel: A Pilot Intervention Based on Partnership and Integration

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        In 2017, the Evidence to Action (E2A) Project (2011–present), with support from USAID, launched “Building Resilience through Strengthening and Integrating Reproductive Health and Family Planning in Niger” (RISE-FP) in the Sahel to integrate quality family planning (FP) programming into the RISE initiative.

        USAID solicited the project to integrate quality family planning programming into the 2014 RISE initiative, a groundbreaking initiative with multiple partners that focused on building the resilience of chronically vulnerable households in targeted agro-pastoral and marginal agriculture zones in Niger and Burkina Faso through economic empowerment, strengthening governance, and improving health and nutrition.

        As part of the RISE-FP project, E2A proposed to pilot and document an innovative FP and resilience intervention built on the concepts of integration and partnership between the health and non-health sectors. Although the intervention was relatively small in scale in comparison to that of E2A and RISE activities across the region, its significance is substantial.

        Year: 2020

        Source: Pathfinder International

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          The Island That Survives Thanks to Smaller Families

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          In the first video of the series “Choice and Change,” which takes a closer look at family planning in the developing world, News Deeply reporters visit an island on Lake Victoria where a radical project (HoPE-LVB) combining contraception and conservation has helped save a community.

          Year: 2016

          Source: News Deeply

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            Does Doing More Result in Doing Better? Exploring Synergies in an Integrated Population, Health and Environment Project in East Africa

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            Population, health and environment (PHE) projects are an increasingly popular strategy for addressing lack of access to healthcare and livelihood opportunities in settings with threats to biodiversity loss. PHE projects integrate services and messaging from different development sectors, including health (particularly family planning), conservation and livelihoods. However, a question remains: do such projects produce value-added outcomes; that is, synergistic effects as a result of integration across sectors? Using qualitative data to explore value-added outcomes resulting from a PHE project serving communities along Lake Victoria in Kenya and Uganda, this study explores several theories about why this integrated project may be generating value-added outcomes, including changes in established gender roles, as well as substitution of time and investment of new income into sustainable livelihood activities, particularly among women. Integration led to several value-added benefits, particularly for women, although long-term sustainability of project outcomes remains a key concern.

            Year: 2018

            Source: Environmental Conservation

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              Addressing Family Planning Access Barriers Using an Integrated Population Health Environment Approach in Rural Uganda

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              Among other objectives, the HoPE-LVB project aimed to increase support for family planning (FP) and women‘s involvement in decision-making by linking FP benefits to community needs including income generation from nature-based livelihoods. Improved FP access was measured by the project using qualitative methods and the project‘s indicator database in terms of five barriers: service quality, community knowledge, physical access, finances, and social acceptability. Through coordinated interventions representing multiple sectors, the project helped communities move more towards a tipping point whereby FP use has now become more an acceptable and accepted social norm. Central to this has been improving service quality and physical access as well as facilitating women‘s involvement in income-generation, thereby increasing their agency and contribution to decision-making including pregnancy timing.

              Year: 2018

              Source: African Journal of Reproductive Health

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                Everything Is Well Planned

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                A short film by the HoPE-LVB Project, implemented by Pathfinder International. In the film, Rosalida and Evans talk openly to their daughters, Mercy and Alice, about family planning, hygiene, and the environment. They also educate fellow fishermen and women on these topics.

                Year: 2018

                Source: Pathfinder International

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                  Family Planning for People and Planet: A Population, Health, Environment Approach in the Lake Victoria Basin

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                  This case study illustrates the relationship between population, family planning, community health, and the sustainability of natural resources in the Lake Victoria Basin, the largest lake basin on the African continent. It demonstrates how these dimensions are shaped by many factors, including human-caused alteration to the lake, access to sexual and reproductive health services, and environmental degradation.

                  Year: 2018

                  Source: Planetary Health Alliance

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                    Family Planning and Resilience: Associations Found in a Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Project in Western Tanzania

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                    In this study, researchers define and measure resilience within the context of Population, Health, and Environment programming and quantify the link between resilience and family planning. The study findings support the importance of including FP/MCH as part of integrated projects to enhance resilience.

                    Year: 2018

                    Source: Population and Environment

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