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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 applies a systems perspective to our KM capacity strengthening work. Learn about what the project found during a recent evaluation on how our work has strengthened KM capacity and improved KM performance among FP/RH stakeholders in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Abhinav Pandey from the YP Foundation in India, emphasizes the importance of knowledge management (KM) in enhancing youth-led initiatives. Through his experiences as a KM Champion, he has integrated strategies like knowledge cafes and resource sharing to improve family planning and reproductive health programs across Asia, fostering collaboration among diverse organizations.
The Safe Love initiative (India) by the Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3) (and with support from the Packard Foundation and TrulyMadly) leverages a popular Indian dating app to provide young people with essential sexual and reproductive health information, focusing on safer sex practices, contraceptive methods, and STI prevention. This project aims to educate and empower young people, particularly women, by offering accurate, confidential, and engaging SRH information in a non-judgmental and inclusive manner.
Through a long-term partnership, FP2030 and Knowledge SUCCESS have used KM techniques to summarize country commitments in shareable formats that anyone can easily understand and expand documentation expertise among FP2030 Focal Points.
The private sector in Nepal is an important source of short-acting reversible contraceptives. It represents a critical opportunity to increase contraceptive access and choice. The Government of Nepal (GON) has emphasized the importance of strengthening social marketing and the private sector (National Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan 2015–2020). Nepal CRS Company (CRS) has introduced contraceptive products and services in the country for almost 50 years. Recent innovations in social marketing, through the use of marketing methods, intend to bring about social and behavioral change to improve citizens' quality of life.
Bangladesh has the highest rate of child marriage in Asia. Early marriage leads to a poorer quality of life for girls. It is detrimental to their agency and ability to obtain or continue education. So, in order to improve young couples’ quality of life and encourage them to make informed decisions, the Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs (BCCP) collaborated with the Directorate General of Family Planning to introduce a national Premarital Counseling (PMC) Guidebook.
On March 22, 2022, Knowledge SUCCESS hosted Meaningfully Engaging Youth: A Snapshot of the Asia Experience. The webinar highlighted experiences from four organizations in the Asia region working to co-create youth-friendly programs, ensure quality FP/RH services for youth, develop youth-friendly policies, and meet the FP/RH needs of youth at different levels of the health system. Did you miss the webinar or want a recap? Read on for a summary, and follow the links below to watch the recording.
Safe Delivery Safe Mother aims to address high fertility and reduce maternal mortality in Pakistan. Recently, the group implemented a pilot project that trained over 160 government-deployed Skilled Birth Attendants (SBAs) in the Multan district of the Punjab province. The six-month pilot project concluded in February. The Safe Delivery Safe Mother team is in the process of sharing recommendations on how to increase the use and acceptance of post-partum family planning with the Pakistani government and other partners.
Human-Centered Design (HCD) is a relatively new approach towards transforming Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) outcomes for youth and adolescents. But what does "quality" look like when applying Human-Centered Design (HCD) to Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) programming?
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