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Breakthrough ACTION develops, tests, and scales up new and hybrid approaches to SBC, informed by Breakthrough RESEARCH’s cutting-edge research and evaluation of proven, cost-effective SBC strategies and programs. Together, these USAID-funded sister projects are harnessing SBC evidence and practice to increase priority health behaviors for improved health and development outcomes.
Faith-based organizations (FBOs) and faith institutions are often perceived as not supporting family planning (FP). However, FBOs have publicly shown support for FP for some time and play a vital role in health care service delivery, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
Despite the success of the Ouagadougou Partnership, the francophone Africa family planning and reproductive health ecosystem faces challenges. Knowledge SUCCESS aims to help address the identified regional knowledge management challenges.
Ce dialogue politique virtuel a discutait les obstacles à l’utilisation durable de la contraception chez les jeunes et à créer des opportunités de collaboration entre les organisations dirigées par des jeunes, les journalistes et les jeunes chercheurs.
PACE convened a two-hour virtual policy dialogue on youth contraceptive discontinuation in West Africa on May 26, 2021. The event aimed to increase regional policymakers’ commitment to addressing the barriers to sustained contraceptive use among youth and forge collaboration opportunities for youth-led organizations, journalists, and young researchers.
Ce webinaire a exploré des moyens pratiques d'intégrer l'engagement des hommes dans les programmes de changement social et de comportement en vue de contribuer à la transformation des normes du genre et à l'adoption des services de santé reproductive, maternelle, néonatale, et infantile.
Knowledge SUCCESS last week announced four winners from a field of 80 contestants in "The Pitch," a global competition to find and fund creative knowledge management ideas for family planning.
The Ouagadougou Partnership’s Youth Think Tank advocates for youth inclusion in family planning policy and works to ensure that adolescents and young people have access to reproductive health information and care. Knowledge SUCCESS recently spoke with Oury Kamissoko, Youth Lead from Mali and head of the Youth Think Tank’s dissemination subcommittee, about young people’s access to family planning and the role of the Youth Think Tank.
Le Think-tank Jeunes du Partenariat de Ouagadougou plaide en faveur de politiques et œuvre pour que les adolescents et les jeunes aient accès aux informations et aux soins de santé reproductive. Knowledge SUCCESS s'est récemment entretenu avec Oury Kamissoko, responsable des jeunes du Mali et chef du sous-comité de diffusion du Think-tank Jeunes, sur l'accès des jeunes à la planification familiale et le rôle du Think-tank Jeunes.
Recap of a webinar on high-impact approaches to support the introduction and scale-up of the self-injectable contraceptive DMPA-SC in Francophone family planning programs in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Togo.
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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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