Repositioning in Action E-Bulletin

February 2007

ARE YOUR FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMS “PRO-POOR”?

New Report: Designing Health and Population Programs to Reach the Poor

Efforts to reduce the unmet need for family planning (FP) within poor populations add a necessary element to all population and reproductive health programs. This collaborative report between USAID, the World Bank, and the Population Reference Bureau gives concrete recommendations on how to create new programs that benefit the poor and refine existing programs to target more poor clients. It stresses the importance of monitoring and evaluation to ensure that benefits actually reach the poor and offers tactics and tools to do so. The report includes case studies from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This is essential reading for all countries including those currently undertaking efforts to Reposition Family Planning.

PROGRAMMATIC APPROACHES

1. Directing Program Benefits to the Poor
2. Promoting Universal Coverage of Basic Health Care
3. Increasing the Availability and Quality of Health Services
4. Developing Public-Private Partnerships
5. Creating Incentives for Health Providers and Clients
6. Increasing Community Participation
7. Health Financing Approaches

MONITORING AND EVALUATION TACTICS

1. Measuring the Economic Status of Program Beneficiaries
2. Comparing Program Users to the Overall Population
   • In Programs That Operate Nationally or in Countries With a National Survey
   • In Programs That Operate on a Smaller Scale or in Countries Without a National Survey
   • In Programs That Do Not Operate Through Facilities
3. Comparing Inequality Among Programs or Across Time Periods

CASE STUDIES

1. Brazil
2. Cambodia
3. India
4. Nepal
5. Tanzania

• Access this new report online
• For more resources, access USAID’s Poverty and Health Equity Page

We Want to Tell Your Repositioning Story

Please contact Kim Ocheltree at kocheltree@usaid.gov with your successes in family planning programming.

For more information on Repositioning Family Planning, please contact Joan Robertson at jrobertson@usaid.gov or Alexandra Todd at atodd@usaid.gov.

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