Project News

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).

Learning Circles are highly interactive small group-based discussions designed to provide a platform for global health professionals to discuss what works and what doesn’t in pressing health topics. In the most recent cohort in Anglophone Africa, the focus was addressing emergency preparedness and response (EPR) for family planning and sexual and reproductive health (FP/SRH).

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.

Humanitarian crises disrupt basic services, making it difficult for people to access basic care, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. Given this is an urgent priority in the Asia region, in particular due to the elevated risk of natural disasters, Knowledge SUCCESS hosted a webinar on September 5 to explore SRH in times of crises.

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.

Knowledge SUCCESS East Africa KM Champion, Fatma Mohamedi, recently shared how she has used the knowledge management training modules in her organization's work in providing health education to people living with disabilities in Tanzania. 

Knowledge SUCCESS a accueilli une cohorte bilingue de Learning Circles avec les points focaux jeunesse du FP2030 de l'Afrique de l'Est et du Sud (ESA) et de l'Afrique du Nord, de l'Ouest et du Centre (NWCA). En savoir plus sur les connaissances acquises lors de cette cohorte axée sur l'institutionnalisation des programmes de santé sexuelle et reproductive des adolescents et des jeunes.

Knowledge SUCCESS hosted a bilingual Learning Circles cohort with FP2030 Youth Focal Points from the East and Southern Africa (ESA) and North, West and Central Africa (NWCA) Hubs. Learn more about the insights uncovered from that cohort focused on institutionalizing adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health programs.

The Most Significant Change (MSC) technique—a complexity-aware monitoring and evaluation method—is based on collecting and analyzing stories of significant change to inform adaptive management of programs and contribute to their evaluation. Based on Knowledge SUCCESS’s experience with using the MSC questions in four evaluations of knowledge management (KM) initiatives, we have found it to be an innovative way to demonstrate the impact of KM on the ultimate outcomes that we are trying to achieve—outcomes like knowledge adaptation and use and improved programs and practice.