This table lists additional resources and tools that may be useful during the CIP development process. These resources are additive to the CIP Resource Kit and are organized by the three phases of CIP development, along with a crosscutting section that lists resources that may be used across the three phases. Use the links below to skip ahead to each phase.
Phase 1 | Phase 2 | Phase 3
Crosscutting
- Smart Advocacy Toolkit
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Applicable to all steps
These SMART Advocacy resources provide a compendium of best practices and tools to refine a strategic vision, identify and motivate key players, take action, manage and overcome setbacks, and monitor and evaluate success. Used together, they provide a comprehensive roadmap to develop, implement, and evaluate a focused advocacy strategy from start to finish.
- Meaningful Youth Engagement and Partnership in Sexual and Reproductive Health Programming: A Strategic Planning Guide
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Applicable to all steps
This Strategic Planning Guide is intended to lead program managers, planners, and decision makers through a strategic process to meaningfully and effectively engage and partner with adolescents, youth, and/or youth-led organizations on sexual and reproductive health programs and initiatives. Meaningful adolescent and youth engagement and partnership is defined as an “inclusive, intentional, mutually-respectful partnership between adolescents, youth, and adults, whereby power is shared, respective contributions are valued, and young people’s ideas, perspectives, skills, and strengths are integrated into the design and delivery of programs, strategies, policies, funding mechanisms, and organizations that affect their lives and their communities, countries, and the world.” Meaningful adolescent and youth engagement and partnership is a right for adolescents and youth and can improve the quality and responsiveness of sexual and reproductive health programs and policies, in turn leading to improved development outcomes.
- Comprehensive Human Rights-based Voluntary Family Planning Program Framework
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Applicable to all steps
The Comprehensive Human Rights-based Voluntary Family Planning Program Framework is a graphic depiction of the essential elements that should ideally be in place at the various levels in the healthcare system – policy, service delivery, community, individual. The main purpose of the framework is to foster understanding of what a holistic, human rights-based approach to voluntary family planning entails and can be an aid for assessment and planning of family planning programs. It builds on the FP2020 Rights and Empowerment Principles (below).
- FP2020 Rights and Empowerment Principles
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Applicable to all steps
Created by the FP2020 Rights and Empowerment Working Group, this resource outlines a common understanding of rights principles as they relate to ten dimensions of family planning.
- How Useful are CIPs for FP Programs? Feedback and Lessons Learned from 30 Countries
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Applicable to all steps
HP+ conducted a review to assess the usefulness of costed implementation plans (CIPs) to countries’ family planning programs. The assessment consisted of a three-step process. First, a desk review was conducted to identify CIP tools that were applied by FP2020 focus countries. Then, an online survey was developed for stakeholders involved in the CIP process to gather information on the use of CIP tools and how stakeholders measure the relevance, coherence, efficiency, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of CIPs. The last step was data analysis—key results, lessons learned, and recommendations from the analysis are presented in this short report.
Phase 1
- Policy Checklist: Essential Elements for Successful Family Planning Policies
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Applicable to step 1
This checklist, developed by the USAID-funded Health Policy Project, draws from lessons learned and best practices moving from policy to action. It is meant to provide guidance to stakeholders on how to contribute to a policy environment that supports countries to fulfill their FP2020 commitments. The tool allows users to compare current policies with the best practices discussed in this document, to assess whether current policies need to be revised or better implemented, and whether new policies should be developed.
- Aligning Strategic Documents to Foster a Common Vision for Family Planning
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Applicable to steps 1-2
HP+ recently conducted a review of several countries’ CIPs and GFF RMNCAH-N investment cases to examine how family planning priorities were reflected in each and interviewed stakeholders to understand how they were involved in the GFF process. This document reflects the findings from the review and shares recommendations for key actions on how to best harmonize priorities for family planning across and in the development of both the GFF investment case and CIP.
Phase 2
- FP Goals
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Applicable to steps 3-4
FP Goals is an innovative model designed to improve strategic planning. The FP Goals Model combines demographic data, family planning program information, and evidence of the effectiveness of diverse interventions to help decision-makers set realistic goals and prioritize investments across different family planning interventions. The full FP Goals Model is not currently publicly available, but the interactive FP Goal Lite Model can demonstrate how initiating or scaling up different interventions might affect a country’s modern contraceptive prevalence rate among all women of reproductive age. This tool is meant to provide a quick glance at results based on select interventions. It does not replace the more robust results you would get from a full application of FP Goals.
If you are interested in a full FP Goals Model application for your country, contact Track20. Learn more about Track20 models and approaches at http://www.track20.org.
Visit FP Goals | Visit FP Goals Lite
- The Supply-Enabling Environment-Demand (SEED) ™ Assessment Guide for Family Planning
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Applicable to step 3
The Supply-Enabling Environment-Demand (SEED)™ Assessment Guide for Family Planning Programming can be used to help program managers and staff determine strengths and weaknesses in family planning programs. It identifies programmatic gaps that require further investment or more in-depth assessment prior to (re)designing programmatic interventions. It is grounded in EngenderHealth’s SEED Programming Model™, a holistic programming framework based on the principle that sexual and reproductive health programs will be more successful, sustainable, and accountable to the communities they serve if they comprehensively address the three interdependent and mutually supportive components of sexual and reproductive health programs: supply, the enabling environment, and demand.
- The WHO Health Systems Framework
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Applicable to steps 3-4
A conceptual framework for health systems strengthening that is not FP-specific but helpful framing for essential health system building blocks, and overall goals and outcomes of a health system.
- Comprehensive Human Rights-Based Voluntary Family Planning Framework
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Applicable to steps 3-4
A framework to aid understanding the components of rights-based family planning. An accompanying program assessment and planning tool provides practical guidance for assessing family planning programs through a human rights lens. Such an assessment serves as a foundation for designing or improving client-centered family planning programs
that apply human rights standards and principles at all levels of the healthcare system. - Approach for Diagnosing Inequity in Family Planning Programs
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Applicable to step 3
Methodology to diagnose inequity in family planning programs, 1) for a diverse range of disadvantaged subgroups; 2) for various programmatic components of family planning; and 3) at national and subnational levels. Replicable across countries through HP+’s open source code, the approach enables users to easily transform demographic and health survey data to develop evidence for policy, financing, and programmatic decisions at national and subnational levels. This tool requires that users have downloaded and installed R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
- Family Planning Market Analyzer
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Applicable to steps 3-4
The Family Planning Market Analyzer combines data from Demographic and Health Surveys and FP2020's projections of modern contraceptive prevalence (mCPR) to allow users to explore potential scenarios for a total market approach (TMA). The tool can be used to inform TMA discussions by providing key results linked to probing questions—for example, if the private sector doubled its role in implant provision, how many more services would need to be provided?
- Strategic Pathway to Reproductive Health Commodity Security (SPARHCS): A tool for assessment, planning, and implementation
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Applicable to steps 3-4
The Strategic Pathway to Reproductive Health Commodity Security (SPARHCS) is a tool to help a country identify and prioritize key commodity security issues; assess current capacity for commodity security among country or regional programs, systems, and policies; and shape commodity security strategic plans. SPARHCS identifies relatively strong and weak elements of a family planning program in multiple areas: capital, coordination, capacity, commitment, and context. SPARHCS has three models that can be adapted to local settings and implemented over periods from 3 to 18 months.
- Proposed Indicators to Measure Adherence to and Effects of Rights-Based Family Planning
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Applicable to steps 3-4
A mapping of potential rights indicators or areas of measurement of human rights and family planning based on recommendations from global stakeholders. This resource includes a table listing each proposed indicator or measurement, which of the 13 rights or rights principles the metric measures, the source of the metric, and under what thematic area it could be found in a FP CIP.
- Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services: guidance and recommendations
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Applicable to steps 3-4
These WHO guidelines provide recommendations for programmes as to how they can ensure that human rights are respected, protected and fulfilled, while services are scaled up to reduce unmet need for contraception. Both health data and international human rights laws and treaties were incorporated into the guidance. This guidance is complementary to existing WHO recommendations for sexual and reproductive health programmes, including guidance on family planning, maternal and newborn health, safe abortion, and core competencies for primary health care.
- Family Planning High Impact Practice Briefs and Strategic Planning Guides
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Applicable to step 4
HIP Briefs are designed to develop consensus around what works in family planning. The HIPs describe family planning practices that have demonstrated impact, are applicable across settings, and are scalable, sustainable, and cost-effective. HIPs are classified as either Service Delivery, Enabling Environment, Social and Behavior Change, or HIP Enhancements. Service Delivery and Social and Behavior Change HIPs are further categorized according to the strength of the evidence base for each practice – proven or promising.
Planning Guides are intended to lead program managers, planners, and decision-makers through a strategic process to identify the most effective and efficient investments to address the challenge or focus of their program. Guides are developed by technical experts and are intended to help planners identify which HIP or practice might work in your specific context.Guides that may be of particular relevance include Creating Equitable Access to High Quality FP Information and Services: A Strategic Planning Guide.
- K4Health Toolkits for FP
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Applicable to step 4
This collection of toolkits provides quick and easy access to relevant and reliable information on various FP topics. The resources in the toolkits are selected by experts and arranged for practical use. Toolkits of particular relevance include the Community-Based Access to Injectables Toolkit, the Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy Toolkit, the Postpartum Family Planning Toolkit, and the Family Planning and Immunization Integration Toolkit.
- Reality Check
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Applicable to steps 4-5
This tool helps users plan based on informed estimates of contraceptive need by examining the relationship between widely available demographic data (contraceptive prevalence and population) and numbers of family planning users, adopters, and commodities and caseload. It can be used for advocacy—helping users set realistic family planning goals by illustrating the resources required as well as the potential impact (e.g., averted unintended pregnancies, induced abortions, and maternal, infant, and child deaths) of realizing these goals. The tool requires minimal data inputs and can be used at the national and subnational levels of the health system. Reality √ is best used as a strategic planning and advocacy tool; donors, program managers, and planners can use the tool to set evidence-based family planning goals, estimate the potential impact of realizing these goals, (e.g. averted unintended pregnancies, induced abortions, and maternal, infant and child deaths) of realizing these goals and anticipate the inputs necessary to reach them.
- FamPlan
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Applicable to steps 4-5
FamPlan projects family planning requirements needed to reach national goals for addressing unmet need or achieving desired fertility. It can be used to set realistic goals, to plan for the service expansion required to meet program objectives, and to evaluate alternative methods of achieving goals. The program uses assumptions about the proximate determinants of fertility and the characteristics of the family planning program (method mix, source mix, discontinuation rates) to calculate the cost and the number of users and acceptors of different methods by source. FamPlan is available as a web-based or desktop application.
- Family Planning Estimation Tool (FPET)
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Applicable to step 4
The Family Planning Estimation Tool (FPET) was designed to produce annual estimates of mCPR, CPR, unmet need, and demand satisfied by modern methods using statistical modelling that incorporates all available data. FPET is unique in that it considers survey data, service statistics (where determined to be of adequate quality), and regional and global historical patterns of change to produce annual estimates beyond the last survey and into the future.
The model was adapted from one used by the United Nations Population Division for estimating family planning trends for all countries in the world. The adaptation was prepared by Jin Rou New and Leontine Alkema1. The FPET model is an online tool that can be run for one country at a time and allows users to input their own data.
The online FPET Training Module includes presentations, exercises, and handouts to help you get the most out of FPET.
Visit FPET Tool | Visit FPET Training Module
- CastCost
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Applicable to steps 4-5
The Contraceptive Forecast and Cost Estimate (CastCost) Excel spreadsheet is used to estimate the quantity and cost of contraceptives needed in a country for five years. These estimates are based on data from the country’s Reproductive Health Survey or Demographic and Health Survey. CastCost can provide estimates of contraceptive needs for the country as a whole, for the public or private sector alone, or for individual service provider organizations. Although CastCost provides an estimate of the quantity of contraceptives needed and their cost, the decision of exactly what quantities of contraceptives to procure should be based primarily on logistics (usage) data. CastCost estimates can be helpful in validating the quantities suggested by a logistics-based forecast. CastCost can also be used to test different scenarios, such as projecting the cost if injectable contraceptives were to increase substantially in the next five years or the differences in cost of a particular contraceptive if it is procured from different sources or to see the financial implications of different method mixes.
- Family Planning and Reproductive Health Indicators Database
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Applicable to step 4
The Family Planning and Reproductive Health Indicators Database provides a comprehensive listing of the most widely used indicators for evaluating family planning and reproductive health programs in low- and middle-income country contexts. The database contains definitions, data requirements, data sources, purposes, and issues for core indicators along with links to other websites and documents containing additional family planning and reproductive health indicators.
- ImpactNow
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Applicable to steps 4-5
ImpactNow is an Excel-based model that estimates the health and economic impacts of family planning in the near term. It is designed to model the impacts of different policy scenarios and to compare the results of those scenarios in advocacy materials. It is designed to estimate the impacts of many "what if" questions about policy options in the two- to seven-year time horizon; for example, it could be used to estimate the impacts of meeting Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) commitments. The outcomes are focused on reproductive health metrics, as well as economic metrics, such as cost-benefit ratios and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios.
ImpactNow was adapted from Marie Stopes International's Impact 2 in collaboration with the Health Policy Project, with support from USAID. The USAID-funded Health Policy Project authored the users’ manual to help health analysts apply the ImpactNow model to estimate the health and economic impacts of family planning programs at national and subnational levels.
- OneHealth
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Applicable to steps 4-5
OneHealth is designed to strengthen the development of national strategic health plans by facilitating health system analysis, costing, and financing scenarios. Its primary purpose is to assess public health investment needs in low- and middle-income countries. OneHealth offers planners a single framework for planning, costing, impact analysis, and budgeting and financing of strategies for all major diseases and health system components. It includes modules to support health activities related to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as well as planning and costing components for the supply side of health systems (human resources, infrastructure, and logistics). The tool also includes a financial space analysis and health impact prediction for the MDGs.
- Are Resources Fulfilling Priorities for Family Planning? An Analysis of Allocations for Tanzania’s Costed Implementation Plan
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Applicable to step 5
This brief presents a case study of a gap analysis for Tanzania’s second national family planning costed implementation plan (CIP) for 2019–2023. HP+ conducted three gap analyses for each of the first three years of the plan using the Family Planning CIP Costing Tool. These annual gap analyses specifically assessed (a) the extent to which CIP results and activities are adequately funded, underfunded, or over-funded, (b) the extent to which CIP activities for a given year are included in funded stakeholder workplans, and (c) geographic coverage of funded activities. Findings of the gap analysis, as well as recommendations, were shared and discussed during semiannual family planning implementer meetings.
Phase 3
- How-To Guide: Integrating Family Planning Interventions into District Implementation Plans in Malawi
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Applicable to step 8
This guide outlines the approach used by HP+ in Malawi to facilitate CIP implementation at the district level by supporting the integration of priority CIP activities into district implementation plans. This guide was created with the intention of enabling others to replicate and refine it beyond the life of the project. The guide includes detailed information about the intervention process, as well as lessons learned and tips for those seeking to adapt and/or replicate the intervention in the future.
- Monitoring Human Rights in Contraceptive Services and Programs
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Applicable to step 9
This tool is intended for use by countries to assist them in strengthening their human rights efforts in contraceptive programming. The tool uses existing commonly-used indicators to highlight areas where human rights have been promoted, neglected or violated in contraceptive programming; gaps in programming and in data collection; and opportunities for action within the health sector and beyond, including opportunities for partnership initiatives.
- Family Planning Financing Roadmap
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Applicable to all steps
The Family Planning Financing Roadmap is an online resource to help identify a sustainable pathway to achieve family planning goals through integrating family planning in health financing schemes and improving allocation and efficiency. The website allows family planning stakeholders to learn more about health financing concepts and how they relate to family planning and understand options for financing family planning given a particular country’s context. The learning materials section—which includes the introductory briefs, glossary, and links to country-specific resources—provides users, who have limited time and health financing expertise, with a high-level introduction to health financing concepts and terms. The interactive roadmap identifies relevant family planning financing options based on a country’s context and is available in English and French.