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October 1, 2015
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EngenderHealth has engaged in the following activities in support of its commitment to FP2020.
West Africa: EngenderHealth has been working intensively in West Africa, where the need for family planning outweighs access to and use of contraceptives. In collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)/West Africa, and our local partners , EngenderHealth is managing a five-year project known as Agir pour la Planification Familiale (AgirPF) to improve access to high-quality, voluntary family planning services in Togo, Niger, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mauritania, where unmet need is the greatest. EngenderHealth has developed partnerships with local and international partners to leverage technical, human, and financial resources for family planning in the region and to ensure sustainability. A cornerstone of this is the partnership developed with the West Africa Health Organization.
Rights-based family planning: EngenderHealth is a trusted global leader in advocating for family planning programs that are designed, implemented, and monitored in a way that protects and fulfills human rights and puts women’s needs, desires, and preferences at the center. Last year, EngenderHealth developed two publications designed to assist diverse audiences, including donors, policymakers, program planners and managers, service providers, rights advocates, and community members, in their efforts to achieve rights-based family planning programs.
The first publication is the Voluntary Rights-based Family Planning Conceptual Framework User’s Guide, a practical resource to help stakeholders design, implement, and monitor family planning programs that respect, protect, and fulfill human rights. Coauthored with the Futures Group, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the guide is a companion to the recent publication of Voluntary Family Planning Programs that Respect, Protect, and Fulfill Human Rights: A Conceptual Framework, which took long-standing family planning concepts, such as quality of care, voluntarism, and service access, and linked them with human rights principles, such as empowerment, equity, nondiscrimination, and accountability. The Framework provides a holistic vision of what a rights-based family planning program looks like; the User’s Guide provides a pathway to applying the framework in actual practice. The guide will:
EngenderHealth also developed Checkpoints for Choice: An Orientation and Resource Package, which takes a closer look at the concept of voluntarism—one component of a rights-based approach—and helps stakeholders understand the clients’ experience and their ability to make full, free, and informed choices about family planning. It consists of a detailed plan with support materials for a one-day workshop to enable family planning program planners and managers to strengthen the focus of family planning programs on clients’ ability to make full, free, and informed contraceptive choices in the context of a rights-based program. In addition to the workshop guidance and materials, the package includes links to recommended references, tools, and additional reading.
EngenderHealth also manages a blog focused on the topic of rights and choice, called Champions for Choice (www.champs4choice.org), which features regular posts by technical experts, policymakers, and program leaders.
Advocacy: EngenderHealth launched a new campaign, Where’s The Family Planning?! (WTFP?!) in late 2014 to raise awareness of the important need for family planning around the globe.