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East and Central Africa
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.
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 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.
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.
Interventions focused on men and boys can broaden the possibilities for challenging gender norms and masculine ideals that can hinder sexual reproductive health and mobilize advances in gender inequality in humanitarian settings.
Across July and August 2023, the Knowledge SUCCESS East Africa team hosted their third Learning Circles cohort with twenty-two FP/RH practitioners from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Ghana.
Across our regional work in East Africa, the Knowledge SUCCESS project has prioritized knowledge management (KM) capacity strengthening and ongoing mentorship as a key strategy to sustaining effective use of KM approaches across individuals, organizations, and networks.
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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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