Locally known as Tupange (“Let’s Plan”), the Kenya Urban Reproductive Health Initiative has spent the last three years empowering youth living in urban slums to take control of their lives and build a brighter future with family planning (FP). Tupange’s work was recently featured by
K4Health is pleased to mark World Humanitarian Day with the release of its new Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings Toolkit. This Toolkit provides donors, decision makers, program managers, health service providers, including emergency workers, and communications professionals, with a carefully selected collection of state-of-the-art resources
Hailed as “an excellent and worthwhile resource” by a field-based user, the new K4Health Family Planning Advocacy Toolkit provides information and tools to advocates to make the case for improved access to voluntary family planning (FP). Ensuring access to voluntary FP is a cost effective,
“Tanzanian girls need access to both education and contraception if they want a better future than that of their mothers,” argued Halima Shariff in an opinion editorial she co-authored earlier this month with Suzanne Ehlers, President and CEO of Population Action International. Shariff is the
“Before now, family planning (FP) in Offa was not so good. We had to go from house to house begging people to adopt FP,” explains Ruth Dare, a registered nurse and FP provider in Offa town, Nigeria. “But now, people are ready for FP. With
K4Health is pleased to announce the recent launch of the Improving Contraceptive Method Mix (ICMM) Project in Indonesia. Funded by the United Agency for International Development (USAID) and Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), this project will investigate the impact of applying knowledge management (KM)
In recognition of International Women’s Day, we would like to applaud the frontline family planning providers, who help women and their partners make decisions that keep mothers, children and families healthy and strong. According to the UN, about 222 million women in the developing world
Jongo Love, a radio series that examines relationships and family planning in urban Kenya, has received nominations for two international media awards: an International Digital Emmy Award and a One World Media Award. Created by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for
The Advance Family Planning advocacy initiative has received $28 million in grants to improve access to and use of family planning services, information and supplies. Support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett
A new Communication Impact released by CCP finds that satisfaction with family planning services increases dramatically when providers adopt a client-center approach. The brief examines the Consult & Choose Initiative (CC Initiative) that took place in Jordan under that USAID-funded Jordan Health Communication Project (JHCP)
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