OUAGADOUGOU PARTNERSHIP – Call for Research-Action proposals

This call for proposals for Action Research Grants Program for RH/FP Strategy and Policy Change in the Francophone West Africa region is for local and regional research institutes located in the Ouagadougou Partnership countries. Learn more about this opportunity here. 

Type: News

Category: Family Planning & Contraception

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Family Planning and The Global Financing Facility: Current Evidence and a Learning Agenda

To understand the current role of the GFF and inform its next steps to best fulfill this mandate, this note takes stock of our collective knowledge on inclusion of contraception in HBPs; incorporation of FP in country RMNCAH-N investment cases and corresponding World Bank projects; and GFF influence over government and donor resource allocation for cost-effective FP services. It concludes with a research agenda to guide future policy.

Type: Resources

Category: Family Planning & Contraception, Health Financing

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Africa Human Capital Plan: Powering Africa’s Potential Through Its People

This presentation outlines the basics of the Human Capital Plan in Africa. It explains why the plan is so important for Africa in reaching RMNCAH goals as well as other human rights goals, and outlines how the World Bank will work with governments and partners to support countries in seven main ways.

Type: Resources

Category: Adolescent Health, Family Planning & Contraception, Maternal and Child Health

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Strategic Purchasing to Support Voluntarism, Informed Choice, Quality and Accountability in Family Planning: Lessons from Results-Based Financing

This guidance document concentrates on strategic purchasing systems that conditionally link a portion of payment to health facilities and their supervisors with the attainment of pre-specified family planning outputs or outcomes. It argues that these types of systems aim to motivate and hold providers and supervisors accountable for providing high-quality voluntary family planning services. It […]

Type: Resources

Category: Family Planning & Contraception, Results-based Financing

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Health Sector Strategic Plan II (2017-2022): Malawi

The Health Sector Strategic Plan II (HSSP II) 2017-2022 is the health sector’s medium term strategic plan outlining objectives and activities and guiding resources over the period 2017-2022, and serves as the Investment Case for Malawi. It succeeds the HSSP I (2011-2016). The goal of the HSSP II is to achieve universal health coverage of […]

Type: Resources

Category: Abortion, Adolescent Health, Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS), Civil Society, Family Planning & Contraception, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, Private Sector, Results-based Financing, UHC

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The Global Financing Facility and Family Planning

To better understand the role of the GFF in filling funding gaps for family planning and contraceptive procurement, PAI analyzed the first four published investment cases as well as the project appraisal documents (PADs) for Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda, specifically regarding their commitment to family planning and contraceptive procurement within these documents.

Type: Resources

Category: Family Planning & Contraception

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Results Measurement: Third Investors Group Meeting

This paper presents the GFF’s approach to providing guidance to countries on results measurement. The proposed approach is based on the recently-released “Indicator and Monitoring Framework for the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030)”, which was developed through a process led by the World Health Organization. The paper also outlines the GFF’s […]

Type: Resources

Category: Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS), Family Planning & Contraception, Health Financing, Maternal and Child Health, Results-based Financing

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Kenya Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child And Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) Investment Framework

This report presents Kenya’s Reproductive Maternal Neonatal Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) Investment Framework for Kenya to realize the Vision 2030, the Constitution of 2010 and the Health Sector Strategic and Investment Plan 2014-18 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This investment framework presents a prioritized set of smart interventions that could be scaled up during […]

Type: Resources

Category: Abortion, Adolescent Health, Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS), Family Planning & Contraception, HIV/AIDS, Investment, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights

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Health Sector Transformation Plan: Ethiopia

In the past two decades, the Government of Ethiopia has invested heavily in health system strengthening guided by its pro-poor policies and strategies resulting in significant gains in improving the health status of Ethiopians. Though good trends are observed, the country is still facing a triple burden of diseases consisting of communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases […]

Type: Resources

Category: Abortion, Adolescent Health, Family Planning & Contraception, HIV/AIDS, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights

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A Promise Renewed: Reproductive Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Sharpened Plan for Uganda

Uganda has developed this evidence-based country plan to address the slow progress on MDG 4&5 targets. The plan examines why the country is making slow progress in attaining the targets; reviews the maternal, newborn and child mortality and morbidity situation in Uganda; sets an agenda for how to accelerate progress; establishes the time horizon for […]

Type: Resources

Category: Civil Society, Family Planning & Contraception, HIV/AIDS, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, Private Sector

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