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 interviewed Kaligirwa Bridget Kigambo, founder and CEO of Girl Potential Care Centre, a youth-led organization that creates interactive visuals for adolescents to learn about sexual and reproductive health in Uganda.
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.
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.
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.