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PHE Minimum Package of Services

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The integrated Population, Health and Environment (PHE) approach is one of the key solutions to attaining sustainable development in the East Africa region. However, the need for guided PHE programming is a fundamental requirement in order to ensure that integrated services address the needs of communities and gaps in service delivery, hence LVBC produced the PHE Minimum Package of Services. The document is intended to be used by communities, local government level implementers, and stakeholders to plan and set priorities for implementation of PHE activities. It is also a framework for accountability and performance measurement in PHE programming.

Year: 2016

Source: Lake Victoria Basin Commission

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    Integration

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    PHE Field Implementation: A Simple PHE Resource Guide/Compendium for Practitioners

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    The Building Actors and Leaders for Advancing Community Excellence in Development (BALANCED) Project developed this publication to provide field-based practitioners of PHE projects with a comprehensive set of ideas and resources for project implementation, from project design to evaluation. This Guide provides brief explanations and links to tools that are considered most useful to PHE practitioners in different stages of PHE project design and implementation. It draws on best practices and approaches used by nongovernmental organizations implementing PHE projects and the BALANCED Project’s experience developing and assisting other organizations to develop PHE projects in Africa and Asia.

    Year: 2013

    Source: The BALANCED Project

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      Integration

      Monitoring & Evaluation

      Project Design

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      Integrating Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Projects: A Programming Manual

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      This highly detailed program design manual begins by describing the evolution of PHE integrated projects, and why they remain relevant. It then lays out critical steps for designing and implementing a PHE project. These steps are not strictly sequential; there is more than one successful way to carry out a project. The steps are provided as a guideline for project designers to determine if they are on the right track. This document also aims to achieve longer and larger success in PHE projects by creating value-added synergies, and including sustainability and scalability in project design. Emphasis is placed on these components as crucial steps to designing a successful integrated project.

      Year: 2007

      Source: United States Agency for International Development

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        Conservation

        Implementation

        Integration

        Population

        Project Design

        Scale-up

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        HIV/AIDS and Environment: A Manual for Conservation Organizations on Impacts and Responses

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        Produced by World Wildlife Fund and the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group, this manual aims to raise awareness of the links between HIV/AIDS and the environment, and provide guidance to conservation organizations on actions they can take to reduce the impacts on their organizations, the local communities they partner with, and the environment. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is having serious impacts on biodiversity conservation and natural resource management, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. In light of these impacts, this manual is designed to help conservation organizations plan and take action to protect staff, the communities in which they work, and the natural resources and biodiversity they aim to conserve. Suggested interventions include workplace actions, training strategies, community actions and scaling up responses among the broader conservation community.

        Year: 2013

        Source: World Wildlife Fund | Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group

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          Conservation

          HIV/AIDS

          Integration

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          Guidance for Evaluating Integrated Global Development Programs

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          This comprehensive framework is a guidance document for evaluating multisector, integrated programs. It summarizes current research methodologies and approaches specific to integrated programs to better assess the nuanced nature of complex integrated models. This document includes guidance and key considerations on formative research, performance indicators, program monitoring, process evaluation, cost analyses, impact evaluation and scale-up evaluation.

          Year: 2016

          Source: FHI 360

            Integration

            Monitoring & Evaluation

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            Family Planning-Sustainable Development Goals (FP-SDGs) Model

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            The FP-SDGs Model is an evidence-based advocacy tool that projects medium- and long-term effects of three different family planning scenarios, capturing the significant impact that contraceptive use has on SDG achievement. The model can be applied in any country, and allows users to design multiple scenarios to show how investments in family planning, education, and the economy can accelerate progress toward the SDGs. By showcasing the benefits of contraceptive use related to health, society, and the economy, the model provides evidence that supports investments in family planning at national and subnational levels.

            Results from country-level applications of the model enable users to:

            • Make the case for family planning financial investments and policy and programmatic improvements
            • Mainstream family planning across development sectors

            Year: 2018

            Source: Health Policy Plus

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              Advocacy

              Economic Development

              Education

              Family Planning

              Sustainable Development Goals

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              Developing Behavior Change Communications for Population, Health and Environment Projects: A Facilitator’s Guide

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              This Guide was designed for facilitators/trainers who work with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) implementing population, health and environment (PHE) activities to develop a behavior change communication (BCC) intervention that supports the achievement of the PHE project’s goals and objectives. It instructs the facilitator on how to train participants on the basic components of a BCC intervention. It also advises how to adapt these components for PHE projects that need integrated messages to raise community awareness of the PHE linkages of health and pro-conservation behaviors. This training is best suited for NGOs and/or government agencies with existing PHE or core health/conservation activities. It is ideal for individuals from organizations that have already participated in a workshop on PHE project design or in a PHE-related workshop in which they developed a PHE conceptual framework, PHE project goal, and objectives and activities.

              Year: 2013

              Source: The BALANCED Project

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                Community Health

                Community Outreach

                Conservation

                Integration

                Project Design

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                Community Driven Vulnerability Evaluation Tool “CoDriVE-Programme Designer”: A Handbook – Incorporating Vulnerability to Climate Change into Project Design and Implementation

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                The purpose of the CoDriVE-PD tool is to enable communities to articulate their experience of how they are being impacted by climatic and non-climatic forces, identify and assess their areas of vulnerability or “development deficits” and encourage them to plan for and undertake adaptive actions to build resilience and reduce vulnerability. CoDriVE-PD is community-engaging, easy-to-use, sensitive enough to capture the different types and degrees of vulnerabilities across communities and regions, and it is oriented towards adaptive action. It has been rigorously tested and validated in different social, economic and agro-ecological contexts in four different Indian states. To support easy, quick, and large-scale application of this tool, Watershed Organization Trust (WOTR) has developed a web-based software program that enables processing and analysis of key data with a view to generating a vulnerability profile as well as situation-specific adaptive actions to be undertaken.

                Year: 2014

                Source: Watershed Organization Trust

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                  Adaptation

                  Climate Change

                  Resilience

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                  Burkina Faso National Plan for Accelerating Family Planning 2017–2020

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                  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

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                    Population

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                    A Tool for Conducting Population, Health and Environment Behavior Monitoring Surveys

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                    The Building Actors and Leaders for Advancing Community Excellence in Development (BALANCED) Project developed this Population, Health and Environment (PHE) Behavior Monitoring Survey tool to help PHE practitioners develop and implement situational and behavior monitoring surveys. Understanding the context of the place will help identify possible entry points where PHE activities might have the potential to improve the quality of life and environment in the field sites. This tool is useful to anyone designing a new PHE project or developing baseline or follow-up surveys to monitor PHE-related behaviors and/or perceptions. It is primarily written for PHE practitioners who need to develop a survey, but who have limited training and expertise in survey methodologies. A secondary audience includes students or other researchers who plan to conduct behavior monitoring surveys.

                    Year: 2013

                    Source: The BALANCED Project

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                      Monitoring & Evaluation

                      Project Design

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