Respecting, Protecting, and Fulfilling Informed Choice and Rights :

Tools, Training Manuals, Job Aids

Voluntary Family Planning Programs that Respect, Protect, and Fulfill Human Rights: Conceptual Framework Users’ Guide (Beta Version)
The rights and dignity of individuals are at the center of all family planning work. Voluntary Family Planning Programs that Respect, Protect, and Fulfill Human Rights: A Conceptual Framework provides a pathway for designing, implementing, and monitoring voluntary family planning programs that respect, protect, and fulfill human rights. Since its launch in August 2013, the Framework has been well-received in a variety of settings, but stakeholders have advocated for a tool to help guide them in applying the framework in practice. This User’s Guide to the Framework was designed to help orient stakeholders on the voluntary, rights-based conceptual framework and aid them in applying the Framework during assessments and action planning and in using it to monitor, evaluate, and hold programs accountable.
Available in English (PDF, 8.5 MB)

Checkpoints for Choice Orientation and Resource Package
Checkpoints for Choice: An Orientation and Resource Package, funded by USAID and the Hewlett Foundation, takes a closer look at the concept of voluntarism—one component of a rights-based approach—and helps stakeholders understand the client’s experience and ability to make full, free, and informed choices about family planning. It includes adapted exercises that were developed for the RESPOND Project–supported expert consultation on contraceptive choice held in Bellagio in September 2012. It consists of a detailed plan with all support materials for a one-day workshop to enable family planning program planners and managers to strengthen the focus of family planning programs on clients’ human rights and their ability to make full, free, and informed contraceptive choices in the context of a rights-based program. In addition to the workshop guidance and materials, the package includes links to recommended references, tools, and additional readings.
Forthcoming

Voluntary Family Planning Programs that Respect, Protect, and Fulfill Human Rights: A Systematic Review of Tools
Voluntary Family Planning Programs that Respect, Protect, and Fulfill Human Rights: A Conceptual Framework offers a holistic approach to realizing human rights as a part of voluntary, high-quality family planning services. The framework’s linkage of family planning and human rights was informed by systematic reviews of supporting evidence and available tools. Voluntary Family Planning Programs that Respect, Protect, and Fulfill Human Rights: A Systematic Review of Tools presents an extensive review of 150 training and assessment tools, frameworks, methodologies, implementation guides, and job aids that support and promote the fulfillment of rights at the policy, service, community, and individual levels. Links to all tools reviewed are provided, to allow policymakers, program planners, and managers to access resources that will enable them to assess, design, implement, monitor, and evaluate rights-based FP programs.
Available in English (PDF, 6.9 MB)

Voluntary Family Planning Programs that Respect, Protect, and Fulfill Human Rights: A Conceptual Framework
The rights and dignity of individuals are at the center of all family planning work. Voluntary Family Planning Programs that Respect, Protect, and Fulfill Human Rights: A Conceptual Framework presents a practical approach for voluntary family planning programs to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights as they set out to improve health and achieve ambitious family planning goals. This comprehensive framework brings together human rights laws and principles with family planning quality of care frameworks to assist policymakers, program managers, donors, and civil society with program design, implementation, and monitoring, and evaluation.
Available in English (PDF, 2 MB)

The Training Resource Package for Family Planning
The Training Resource Package for Family Planning, to which the RESPOND Project contributed, contains curriculum components and tools needed to design, implement, and evaluate training. It offers essential resources for family planning and reproductive health trainers, supervisors, and program managers. The entire package is designed to support up-to-date training on family planning and reproductive health. The development of the TRP was led by USAID, World Health Organization, and United Nations Population Fund, with full participation from technical and training experts representing multiple agencies and organizations.
Available online in English

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