Training Service Providers
One of the main elements in the effort to strengthen
a country's reproductive health programs involves training
and services. Education and health systems work together
to prepare providers who can deliver standardized, high
quality reproductive health services. USAID funds numerous
programs to train clinic supervisors and administrators,
physicians, other medical professionals, and community-based
workers in quality family planning and reproductive
health care practices. These efforts involve direct
training of service providers, developing in-country
capacity through "train the trainer" programs,
and efforts to improve performance, the transfer of
training, and support for innovative training approaches.
Training comes in many forms, including classroom-based
learning, distance learning, self-directed learning,
technology-assisted learning and on-the-job training.
It covers a broad range of content areas including management,
quality assurance, logistics, community education, client-provider
interaction, and clinical skills.
- The Balanced Counseling Strategy (BCS)
The Population Council’s Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS) Program offers the BCS – a practical, interactive, client-friendly counseling strategy that uses three key job aids (visual memory aids) for counseling clients about family planning. The process, tested and refined in several countries, involves a set of steps to determine the method that best suits the client according to her preferences and reproductive health intentions.
- The Systematic Screening Manual
This training manual from the Population Council’s Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS) Program provides guidance for program managers, supervisors, and providers who wish to integrate systematic screening into their health services. Systematic screening is a simple strategy to increase the number of services received at a single client visit.
- Vasectomy: Tools for Providers [PDF, 433KB]
This report presents checklists and tables for family planning providers to: counsel clients about vasectomy and ensure they make an informed choice; identify men with conditions that require a delay or special consideration before they can have a vasectomy; explain the vasectomy procedure; try to make sure the client’s decision for vasectomy is well-considered and his own; explain to a man what he should do before and after the vasectomy.
- Comparing Effectiveness of Family Planning Methods
A panel of experts from USAID, the INFO Project JHU/CCP, EngenderHealth, and FHI drafted this chart, which presents contraceptive methods on a continuum of effectiveness to help clients make informed contraceptive choices.
- Key Reminders About Hormonal Family Planning Methods
A condensed version of the Family Planning Global Handbook for Providers, Key Reminders is configured as a simple sheet that can be hung on a wall or placed on a desk for the provider to refer to easily. The Key Reminders sheet covers five methods—combined oral contraceptives, monthly (combined) injectables, long-acting (progestin-only) injectables, implants, and progestin-only pills.
- JHPIEGO
Training in Reproductive Health
- Improving
the Performance of Primary Providers in Reproductive
Health (PRIME II)
- The Basics of Community-based Family Planning Training Curriculum
The purpose of this training opportunity, provided by USAID's Flexible Fund, is to explain key technical and programmatic concepts of Family Planning (FP) service delivery.
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