The Role of Partnerships
The Community of Practice is forged through collaborations and partnerships. Sarah Harlan, the Partnerships Team Lead at Knowledge SUCCESS, says that this is done to ensure that useful, accurate, and actionable family planning and reproductive health knowledge and information flows up and down the health system—from regional, national, and sub-national levels to the global level and back again. Such knowledge is used consistently to improve systems and policies within family planning and reproductive health and, broadly, across all health sectors.
Knowledge SUCCESS cooperates with over 40 global, regional, and country-level partners on activities ranging from developing online content to organizing family planning and reproductive health Communities of Practice, including:
“The idea is that knowledge products would be made with our audiences, not for them and, as a result, would be widely used to optimize family planning and reproductive health programs and services and, ultimately, improve the health of women, men, and families around the world,” Harlan explains. Partnerships, Harlan adds, were informed by a series of co-creation workshops Knowledge SUCCESS conducted in 2020 in Africa, Asia, and the United States. “We use the learnings from the co-creation workshops to ensure that our partnerships activities are innovative, forward-thinking, and meeting the needs of our audiences,” she notes.