With the E2A project ending in March 2021, USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health championed the efficient transfer of the COP’s secretariat role to the Research for Scalable Solutions project (R4S) under FHI 360. This transfer ensures that this platform will endure, supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange on the process of scaling evidence-based practices for family planning. FHI 360 has a long history of leadership in family planning, implementation science, and scaling innovations into standards of practice, so this COP is a natural fit.
Trinity Zan, Research Utilization Lead for R4S, reflected on the convergent missions of R4S and the scale-up COP: