Family Planning (FP) Innovations and Capacity Building Platforms

The Family Planning Innovation and Capacity Building Platform activity will collaborate with the Department of Health (DOH) to expand and institutionalize high-impact practices to improve family planning (FP) services.

In addition to supporting the scale-up of proven high-impact FP interventions, the activity will build capacity of a variety of health actors to expand access to integrated, quality, and patient-centered FP services and introduce new technologies and innovations that will lead to a reduction in unmet need for FP services.

Through initial assessments, key provinces selected will have a specific focus on areas with high unmet need for modern family planning and high teen pregnancy rates. ..FY 2018 funds will be used to: 1) strengthen health seeking behaviors among youth, women, and men; 2) fortify the quality of patient-centered approaches to family planning and adolescent and youth health services through national scale-up of targeted high-impact interventions; 3) enhance supervision and mentoring for public and private sector providers; and 4) support policies and systems that will bolster health service delivery.

The activity will work with and build the capacity of local organizations to test and introduce state-of-the-art technologies, new approaches, and partnerships.

The activity will also bolster the capacity of the DOH, local health system, and facilitate local solutions to promote self-reliance and sustainability, which are vital to achieving the U.S. government Mission Objective to accelerate and sustain broad-based and inclusive growth.