Program Management

This presentation provides an overview of three different types of scale-up and explores the differences between an incremental cost analysis and a full cost analysis. The slides also highlight reasons why scale-up costs differ from the costs of pilot projects and explain how to use costing data from a pilot project to understand the cost of scaling up.

2005 | Millenium Project | 23 pp

English

This user guide is a step-by-step introduction to the UN Millennium Project’s maternal and reproductive health needs assessment tool. It assumes that users have read the Handbook and have a basic familiarity with the fundamentals of an MDG Needs Assessment, but does not presume any prior technical knowledge of MDG needs assessment tools. The guide should be used concurrently with the maternal and reproductive health needs assessment tool, available at www.unmillenniumproject.org/policy.

Managment Sciences for Health [MSH]

French |

Spanish

The International Drug Price Indicator Guide contains a spectrum of prices from pharmaceutical suppliers, international development organizations, and government agencies. The Guide aims to make price information more widely available in order to improve procurement of medicines of assured quality for the lowest possible price. Comparative price information is important for getting the best price, and this is an essential reference for anyone involved in the procurement of pharmaceuticals.

Family Planning and Reproductive Health Indicators Database

Monitoring and Evaluation

No Date | MEASURE Evaluation

Tools for Community Health Workrers |

This site provides a comprehensive listing of the most widely used indicators for evaluating family planning and reproductive health programs in developing countries. The database contains definitions, data requirements, data sources, purposes, and issues for core indicators along with links to other websites and documents containing additional family planning and reproductive health indicators.

2011 | FHI 360

Tools for Supervisors

This package contains sample monitoring and evaluation tools, and accompanying guidance, that have been developed based on program experiences from community-based access (CBA) programs that offer family planning and reproductive health services in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zambia.

Community-Based Access to Injectable Contraceptives Toolkit

Program Models and Approaches

No Date | FHI 360

Web site

The Community-Based Access to Injectable Contraceptives Toolkit is a platform for strengthening the capacity of agencies and organizations to plan, implement, evaluate, promote, and scale up community-based access to injectables (CBA2I) programs and to advocate for changes to national policy and service delivery guidelines.

2011 | PATH | 2 pp

Project Summary (English) |

Project Summary (French) |

Clinical Brief (English) |

Clinical Brief (French)

A new formulation and presentation of Depo-Provera® will soon become available, offering the potential to create access for new users while improving continuation among existing users. This new version, known as depo-subQ provera 104™ in the Uniject®* device (depo-subQ in Uniject), contains 104 mg of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) and is administered via subcutaneous injection. The Uniject delivery system is a small, autodisable injection device that is prefilled with the precise dosage of depo-subQ required for three months of contraceptive protection.

Injectables Program Models

2010 | Knowledge for Health (K4Health) | 3 pp

This brief provides an overview of diverse service delivery models for providing injectable contraceptive services.

Organizing Work to Provide Injectables

2010 | Knowledge for Health (K4Health) | 3 pp

This brief provides issues to consider in developing a work flow for provision of injectable contraceptives.

Who Can Provide Injectables?

2010 | Knowledge for Health (K4Health) | 2 pp

This brief includes information about the variety of health care providers that can provide injectables safely and effectively.

2007 | EngenderHealth,The ACQUIRE Project | 4 pp

English

This holistic model for family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) service delivery was developed by the ACQUIRE Project for use in national-, regional-, and district-level programs. The model applies to both FP/RH services in general and to clinical FP/RH services.

2006 | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs | 24 pp

Spanish |

French

This report can help family planning program managers develop strategies to:

2004 | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health / Center for Communication Programs [JHUCCP] | 20 pp

French |

Spanish

Family planning and other health care organizations in developing countries increasingly must do more with the same resources, and sometimes with fewer. Reorganizing work processes offers one common-sense way to help staff members at all levels cope with growing demands. Whether you are a clinic manager, front-line provider, program supervisor, or district-level manager, you can improve how work is organized and performed.

2002 | World Health Organization [WHO] | 89 pp

English

In response to lessons learned from past approaches to contraceptive introduction, a Strategic Approach to contraceptive introduction has been developed, tested and refined. The approach has moved from a focus on the introduction of a single technology to one that emphasizes the need to examine the entire method mix, clients’ and community members’ needs and perspectives, and the capacity of the service delivery system to provide quality services, prior to making decisions about contraceptive introduction.

Management of Waste From Injection Activities at District Level: Guidelines for District Health Managers

Quality Considerations

2006 | World Health Organization [WHO] | 26 pp

Guidelines (English) |

Guidelines (French) |

Poster (English) |

Poster (French)

Inadequate management and disposal of waste generated by injection activities such as sharps and infectious waste can have a negative impact, either directly or indirectly, on the health of medical staff and waste handlers, as well as on the community and environment. Much attention has been paid to tertiary health-care facilities located in urban areas where financial and human resources are more readily available.

2004 | John Snow [JSI], DELIVER | 140 pp

Safe Injection and Waste Management: A Reference for Logistics Advisors was developed as a reference for logistics advisors as they face the challenge of designing and supporting programs to improve injection safety and injection waste management. The reader will find useful information and tools, as well as discussions of important issues, including those related to commodity security for safe injection devices (i.e., injection device security) and the development of a safe injection and waste management policy.

2003 | EngenderHealth | 82 pp

English
French

A supplement to COPE® Handbook: A Process for Improving Quality in Health Services, Revised Edition. Provides updated versions of the self-assessment guides, the client interview guide, and other materials for a range of reproductive health services, including antenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum and newborn care, postabortion care, family planning, reproductive tract infections (including sexually transmitted infections), HIV and AIDS, gynecological services, men's reproductive health services, sexuality, infertility, and prevention of harmful practices.

2003 | EngenderHealth | 164 pp

English
French

COPE®, which stands for "client-oriented, provider-efficient" services, is a process that helps health care staff continuously improve the quality and efficiency of services provided at their facility and make services more responsive to clients' needs. COPE® provides staff with practical, easy-to-use tools to identify problems and develop solutions using local resources, and it encourages all levels of staff and supervisors to work together as a team and to involve clients in assessing services.

Managing an Injection Safety Policy

2003 | World Health Organization [WHO] | 25 pp

English

This guide is designed to assist in benchmarking, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating a national strategy for the safe and appropriate use of injections. This framework is to be used – and adapted – by national public health managers and their national and international partners.

2003 | Save the Children | 91 pp

Partnership Defined Quality (PDQ) is a methodology to improve the quality and accessibility of services with community involvement in defining, implementing, and monitoring the quality improvement process. Partnership Defined Quality links quality assessment and improvement with community mobilization. This manual offers tools that can be used by project managers, health service managers, or facilitating agencies. It can also be used by health workers or community advocates, who would like to work to make a difference in the quality of health services available in their area.

Beginning with the end in mind: Planning pilot projects and other programmatic research for successful scaling up

Scaling Up

2011 | World Health Organization | 18 pp

This short new ExpandNet/WHO guidance document, which is a working draft, provides 12 recommendations and a checklist to help build scaling up considerations into projects from the outset. In this way one can anticipate and plan ahead for eventual scale up from the earliest stages of designing a pilot, demonstration or other operations research intervention.

2007 | World Health Organization [WHO)], Department of Reproductive Health and Research

French |

Russian |

Spanish

Faced with the challenge of putting into practice the ideals of the Millennium Development Goals and other global summits of the last decade, decision-makers and programme managers responsible for sexual and reproductive health ask how they can: improve access to and the quality of family planning and other sexual and reproductive health services; increase skilled attendance at birth and strengthen referral systems; reduce the recourse to abortion and improve the quality of existing abortion services; provide information and services that respond to young people’s needs; and integrate

2006 | John Snow [JSI] | DELIVER | 8 pp

English

In the 1980s and 1990s, the typical country reproductive health program was a vertical program that managed between 6 - 10 contraceptives. Supply chains were relatively easy to establish and maintain as programs generally worked with a single entity. This included, for example, the Family Planning Unit of the Ministry of Health, as well as NGO programs, which often received contraceptives through the same or similar vertical supply chains as the public sector programs.

Standards-Based Managment and Recognition (SBM-R): A Field Guide

Supervision

2005 | JHPIEGO | 84 pp

The purpose of this field guide is to present a streamlined, step-by-step process, along with practical tools and other resources, for improving the performance and quality of health services using the Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-R) approach. SBM-R involves the systematic use of performance standards as the basis for the organization and functioning of these services, and the rewarding of compliance with standards through recognition mechanisms.

A Guide for Supervising Injections

2004 | World Health Organization [WHO] | 16 pp

English

The objective of this document is to provide a guide for supervisors and trainers to: 1. Observe injection practices; 2. Provide feedback about safe and unsafe practices; 3. Help supervisors resolve problems contributing to unsafe injections.

2002 | Maximizing Access and Quality [MAQ] Initiative | 28 pp

English

This paper distills lessons from recent efforts to improve the supervision of family planning and health programs in developing countries and identifies approaches that may be more effective and sustainable. It describes supportive supervision, an approach to supervision that emphasizes joint problem-solving, mentoring, and two-way communication between supervisors and those being supervised.