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FP/RH
Faith and family planning may seem like unlikely partners, but in Uganda and across the East Africa region, faith-based organizations play a transformative role in advancing reproductive health. This was demonstrated during a recent knowledge café hosted in Uganda, a collaboration among the IGAD RMNCAH/FP Knowledge Management Community of Practice (KM CoP), Knowledge SUCCESS, and the Faith For Family Health Initiative (3FHi).
Knowledge SUCCESS hosted a webinar on the strengths and potential for local resource mobilization in Asia on August 8, 2024, attracting 200 registrants. The webinar panel included four speakers who were part of a recent Learning Circles cohort facilitated by the Knowledge SUCCESS Asia Regional Team to share successes and challenges with mobilizing resources for family planning programs.
In October 2024, Knowledge SUCCESS attended CORE Group’s Global Health Practitioners Conference (GHPC), during which we had the opportunity to highlight the project’s knowledge management (KM) innovations.
Knowledge SUCCESS interviewed global health professionals on progress made since the 1994 ICPD Cairo Conference. The second in a three-part series features Eva Roca, Implementation Science Advisor on Gender Equity and Health at UC San Diego.
With more and more young people in Kenya accessing mobile devices and onboarding technology, mobile technology is becoming a promising method to disseminate important family planning information and services, especially among young girls and women.
Knowledge SUCCESS developed a tool that helps countries to assess the way they develop, implement, and evaluate their family planning Costed Implementation Plans and ensure that knowledge management is integrated throughout the process.
Le programme Jeunes en Vigie vise à combler les lacunes dans la disponibilité et l'accessibilité de services de santé sexuelle et reproductive de qualité pour les jeunes femmes en intégrant une perspective féministe et des droits de l'homme dans ses audits sociaux. Ce reportage sur le programme Jeunes en Vigie est l'un des trois reportages sur la mise en œuvre sélectionnés pour la série 2024 sur l'élargissement de l'accès à la santé sexuelle et reproductive, développée par Knowledge SUCCESS et le réseau IBP/OMS.
The Jeunes en Vigie program aims to address gaps in the availability and accessibility of quality SRHR services for young women by integrating a feminist and human rights perspective into its social audits. This feature story on the Jeunes en Vigie program is one of the three implementation stories selected for a 2024 series on expanding comprehensive sexual and reproductive health access, developed by Knowledge SUCCESS and WHO/IBP Network.
To fill a gap in resources on how to effectively develop health policy, Samasha partnered with USAID’s PROPEL Health project to create a how-to guide on Uganda’s self-care policy development process that other countries may use to inform their own policy development processes.
A Call to Action for stakeholders to join forces to advance PPFP and PAFP was launched in December 2023. To provide a deeper understanding of the events and insights that led to this action, Knowledge SUCCESS interviewed key members of the coalition behind it. This post highlights the pivotal moments in their collaboration, lessons learned along the way, and a glimpse into what the future holds.
Listen to “Inside the FP Story”
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and listen in on honest conversations with family planning program experts around the world as they share what has worked in their settings — and what to avoid — in our podcast series, Inside the FP Story.
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