Family Planning & Reproductive Health Resources
Fact Sheets
Improving Access to Family Planning Can Promote Food Security in a Changing ClimateNew research in Ethiopia demonstrates that slower population growth can also play a significant role in promoting future food security in a climate-altered world.
Tools and Guides
The MEASURE Evaluation PRH project conducted an activity to investigate and document the process of using a geographic information system (GIS) to link family planning/reproductive health data with data from multiple sectors. With Rwanda as a case study, this tool shows how GIS can help overcome the stovepiping of data and enhance the visualization and analysis of family planning/reproductive health data.
Framework for Monitoring and Evaluating Efforts to Reposition Family Planning
With illustrative indicators and a detailed framework for monitoring and evaluating the repositioning of family planning services, this tool can be used by international donors, governments, and programs to assess their efforts, identify gaps in strategies to reposition family planning in countries, and to inform funding, program design, policy and advocacy, and program planning and improvement.
Performance Management Plans: A Checklist for Quality Assessment
A performance management plan (PMP) establishes guidelines for the collection of specific information that will be used to assess program or project progress and guide decision making. A 14-item checklist provided in this guide is designed to help managers decide whether or not a document has the basic characteristics of a good PMP.
Addressing Poverty: A Guide for Considering Poverty-Related and Other Inequalities in Health
Taken as a whole, this guide covers the spectrum from priority-setting to monitoring and evaluation. Each chapter can also be used as a self-contained module, depending where a particular Mission is in its planning cycle.
Modeling Climate Change, Food Security, and Population
A computer simulation model was developed to help clarify the dynamic relationships between climate change, food security, and population growth. The aim was to develop a model that would be simple enough to adapt to a country and that could be used at the policy level to introduce population issues into the dialogue on adaptation to climate change in the context of food security.
A Guide for Monitoring and Evaluation Population-Health-Environment Programs
Combines efforts to help communities manage and conserve their natural resource base with efforts to improve their health and access to family planning information and services.
Data with a geographic component are particularly well-suited to support monitoring and evaluation efforts and evidence-based decision making within family planning activities. This guide presents key concepts involved in the collection and use of spatially referenced family planning data.
Reports
This report is a summary of an expert meeting held in June 2011 to discuss issues related to methods of estimating family planning program costs. Such estimates have been used by government officials to plan national and subnational budgets, by nongovernmental organizations and donors to determine levels of donor support at all levels, and for advocacy purposes at all levels to highlight shortfalls in funding or to put family planning program costs into perspective for various audiences.
