Management and Leadership Development

Global Efforts

USAID has spearheaded efforts to identify and publicize effective management practices, new technologies, and other program skills for developing country professionals. Management problem-solving tools and other materials are now available on the Internet and computerized models have been developed to project training needs, manage logistics and supplies, and train communications specialists and service providers. USAID designs innovative programs to build the capacity of local institutions to manage high quality family planning programs. Areas of assistance include leadership development, organizational structure development, human resource management, strategic planning, financial management, management information systems, electronic resource development, and health sector reform.

• Elements of Success in Family Planning Programming [PDF, 1.5MB]
  This report is based on a 2007 poll of nearly 500 health care professionals around the world who identified the top 10 elements most important to the success of family planning programs. The elements range from ensuring client-centered care to offering affordable services to implementing effective communication strategies.
• Take the E-learning course at www.globalhealthlearning.org.
• Visit the report's companion Web site, www.fpsuccess.org, to access a virtual community of family planning professionals around the world.
  
  
• Elements of Successful Family Planning Programs: Online Survey and Global Forum Discussion
  The INFO Project, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners of the Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Initiative, sponsored an online global discussion forum in order to share program experiences, review research findings, highlight resources, and reach consensus on the core elements of successful family planning programs.
  
  
• A Guide for Fostering Change to Scale Up Effective Health Services [PDF, 5.8MB]
  This Guide was produced for the Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Consortium by the USAID-funded Leadership, Management, and Sustainability (LMS) Project of Management Sciences for Health (MSH). The guide presents a pathway that links proven change practices with evidenced-based clinical and programmatic practices to cross barriers of change resistance. It helps teams to foster change and work together to break down barriers and focus actions to obtain a common goal.
  • Access a self-guided virtual learning program on fostering change
    
    
• Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers - July 2007
  This handbook offers clinic-based health care professionals in developing countries the latest guidance on providing contraceptive methods. One of the WHO’s Four Cornerstones of Family Planning Guidance, the book has been prepared through a unique collaboration between USAID, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and over 30 organizations around the world.
  • Order print copies of the handbook in English or Spanish
  • Order a CD-ROM of the handbook in English
  • Download the entire handbook in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian [PDF, 4MB]
  • Download the English PDF version [PDF, 9MB] or the Word document.