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.
- National Health Accounts Reproductive Health Subaccounts Participant's Manual - March 2008
The goal of this manual is to familiarize trainers and trainees on the methodology of the RH subaccount as well as to reinforce the importance and usefulness of tracking resources associated with RH. It is a complete toolkit with lectures, PowerPoint presentations, interactive exercises, and supplemental readings that has been designed, and produced using the Reproductive Health Subaccounts Guidelines.
- Best Practices in Training Private Providers
The purpose of this primer is to document and promote best practices gleaned from worldwide experience in training private sector providers. The USAID-funded Private Sector Partnerships-One (PSP-One) project has reviewed literature and developed case studies of recent private provider training events to collect and analyze lessons learned.
- The Balanced Counseling Strategy (BCS) - November 2008
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Checklist for Screening Clients Who Want to Initiate Contraceptive Implants
Family Health International (FHI) is pleased to announce the release of a new family planning checklist designed to help health care providers screen clients for certain medical conditions to determine if they are appropriate candidates ofr contraceptive implants. The checklist can be used by appropriately trained health care providers including nurses, nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, midwives, and physicians.
- 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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