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Tools, Training Manuals, Job Aids

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

Reality Check: A Planning and Advocacy Tool for Strengthening Family Planning Programs (Version 3)
Reality Check is an easy-to-use tool recently updated by RESPOND and EngenderHealth that can generate data for evidence-based advocacy and strategic planning. Users can set realistic family planning goals, plan for service expansion to meet program objectives, and evaluate alternative methods for achieving specific goals. It also can help managers better understand the costs of changing the method mix in a country or region.
Software installer available in English (ZIP, 65.3MB); actual software offers an English and French interface

Reality Check, Version 3: User's Guide
Reality Check is an easy-to-use tool recently updated by RESPOND and EngenderHealth that can generate data for evidence-based advocacy and strategic planning. This User’s Guide sets forth instructions and the methodology for projecting family planning trends and instructs the user on how to apply the tool.
Available in English (PDF, 1.9 MB) and French (PDF, 1.9 MB)

Together to End Domestic Violence
This manual was utilized under RESPOND Angola to train a group of activists against gender-based violence (GBV) who had already been working around issues of HIV and GBV. The manual, which draws on activities from EngenderHealth’s Engaging Boys and Men in Gender Transformation: The Group Education Manual and from the White Ribbon Campaign Brazil manual on Educacao Para Acao, seeks to engage the activists in reflecting on gender norms and their impact on health and GBV, identifying healthy relationships, understanding causes and consequences of GBV and reflecting on ways in which community members (and activists) can support survivors of GBV. The manual begins with a participant section with handouts and resources for participants.
Available in Portuguese (PDF, 703 KB)

Integration of Family Planning and Intimate Partner Violence Services: A Prototype for Adaptation, Trainer’s Guide
This manual is an educational tool for increasing the capacity of family planning and reproductive health care providers to recognize and respond to the impact of intimate partner violence in the lives of their family planning clients. It is meant as a tool to be utilized by a trained and experienced facilitator. It can also be used to train facilitators who will implement workshop activities with groups of family planning and reproductive health care providers. It is organized in the form of a five-day training, with the possibility to extend the training to include a sixth day. The training focuses on, but is not limited to: root causes and dynamics of intimate partner violence; the process for integrating services; provider attitudes and skills-development; and action planning.
Available in English (PDF, 6.5 MB)

Responding to the Impact of Gender-Based Violence: An Annotated Bibliography for Integrated Family Planning and Gender-Based Violence Services
A compilation of the most current and relevant resources on integrating services for gender-based violence (GBV) into reproductive health services, this bibliography is designed for those seeking to develop, expand, or improve standards of care and clinic operating policies and procedures. The resources cover such areas as GBV and general service integration; GBV and family planning and reproductive health service integration; GBV and HIV service integration; conducting family planning counseling; challenging root causes of GBV; GBV in conflict and humanitarian settings; GBV as human rights; and region-specific information. Each entry includes a brief summary of the resource and its application in the context of GBV and reproductive health and family planning integration.
Available in English (PDF, 766 KB)

Preliminary Users’ Guide for the Voluntary, Rights-Based Family Planning 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 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)

Prototype Assessment Tools for Postabortion Care (PAC)
The Prototype Assessment Tools for Postabortion Care (PAC) Services were developed for a five-day conference held in October 2013 in Saly, Senegal (the Second Regional Francophone West Africa Postabortion Care Meeting: Strengthening Postabortion Family Planning in West Africa), which consisted of more than 60 participants from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, and Senegal. These checklists are revised versions of the PAC Checklists, part of the PAC Global Resources Package, which assist those involved in PAC policies, service delivery, education, or community sensitization to evaluate their current systems and tools. In preparation for this meeting, the checklists were analyzed and revised in light of EngenderHealth’s Supply–Enabling Environment–Demand (SEED) Programming Model, a holistic programming model that emphasizes the need to strengthen programs through interventions focused on supply (e.g., provider skills, availability of commodities), demand (e.g., knowledge in the community of available health services), and the enabling environment (e.g., policies supportive of services). The checklists were used by country teams to evaluate their national policies, service delivery, education, and community sensitization programs. These teams then prioritized the gaps and analyzed root causes, leading to the creation of road maps that were presented on the final day of the conference. These checklists can be adapted to serve as tools in other postabortion family planning programs and may be included in the revision of the PAC Global Services Package.
Available in English (PDF, 505 KB) and French (PDF, 500 KB)

COPE® for Contraceptive Security: An Assessment Guide: An Adaptation of the COPE Quality Improvement Approach
This publication uses the long-established COPE® (which stands for client-oriented, provider-efficient) quality improvement process and tools to help health care providers think through every dimension of contraceptive security. The 10 contraceptive security–related self-assessment guides cover a broad range of topics, including organization and staffing, the logistics system, procurement, warehousing, transport, and budgeting. As in all COPE® products, the self-assessment exercises build a sense of teamwork, promote ownership of solutions, and provide a forum for staff and supervisors to exchange ideas. This publication provides tools and processes that can help facility and district health and logistics personnel secure the supply chain by identifying threats to contraceptive security and developing novel ideas and innovative solutions to remedy or obviate those challenges.
Available in English (PDF, 1.2 MB) and French (PDF, 1.2 MB)

COPE® for Contraceptive Security Job Aid
January 2014
Available in English (PDF, 140 KB)

Together to End Domestic Violence
This manual was utilized under RESPOND Angola to train a group of activists against gender-based violence (GBV) who had already been working around issues of HIV and GBV. The manual, which draws on activities from EngenderHealth’s Engaging Boys and Men in Gender Transformation: The Group Education Manual and from the White Ribbon Campaign Brazil manual on Educacao Para Acao, seeks to engage the activists in reflecting on gender norms and their impact on health and GBV, identifying healthy relationships, understanding causes and consequences of GBV and reflecting on ways in which community members (and activists) can support survivors of GBV. The manual begins with a participant section with handouts and resources for participants.
Available in Portuguese (PDF, 703 KB)

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)

Medical Instruments and Expendable Medical Supplies Needed to Provide Long-Acting and Permanent Methods of Contraception
This table outlines the specific medical instruments and expendable medical supplies necessary to provide high-quality services for long-acting and permanent methods of contraception (LA/PMs). Developed as a job aid, it is meant to facilitate LA/PM service delivery and ensure contraceptive security.
Available in English (PDF, 401 KB)

Stat-Shot: Focused Family Planning Data at Your Fingertips (March 2012) Web-based and downloadable versions and User Guide
RESPOND conducted a secondary analysis of 40 Demographic and Health Surveys to explore the characteristics of users and nonusers of different family planning methods. Indicators explored include parity, ideal number of children, wealth quintile, urban vs. rural location, and source of method. The resulting data have been compiled into a user-friendly web-based and downloadable application, called Stat-Shot: Focused Family Planning Data at Your Fingertips. This tool has been designed for a wide range of uses—informing advocacy presentations by highlighting disparities in method use, or enabling evidence-based decision making and priority setting.
Software installer available in English (ZIP, 3.4 MB);
User guide available in English (PDF, 2.0 MB);
Product brief available in English (PDF, 722 KB)

Organizational Capacity Assessment for Family Planning Programming—Long-Acting Methods (IUDs/Implants)
This tool uses an assessment approach developed by the RESPOND Project to enable organizations to quickly assess their capacity to provide family planning services, with an emphasis on long-acting methods of contraception (the intrauterine device [IUD] and implants). The tool helps organizations assess their own capacity and is intended to capture what systems are in place to support the provision of high-quality services for long-acting methods, at the organizational level, not simply at the clinic level.
Available in English (PDF, 562 KB) and French (PDF, 636 KB)

LA/PMs: A Smart FP/RH Program Investment, a course for the USAID Global Health eLearning Center
Ensuring access to information about and affordable quality services for a wide range of contraceptive methods within family planning and reproductive health programs is vital to enabling women and men to achieve their reproductive intentions, whether they choose to delay a first pregnancy, space pregnancies, or limit further childbearing. Long-acting and permanent methods (LA/PMs) play a central role in meeting the reproductive health needs of individuals and couples. This eLearning course is designed to provide learners with a solid understanding of LA/PMs, the rationale for making these methods more widely available in countries’ contraceptive method mix, and the benefits they can provide to both clients and health care systems. The course presents a combination of technical information, leadership and training strategies, and holistic programming experiences from the field.
Available online in English

Implants Toolkit
The Implants Toolkit provides policy makers, health care providers, and program managers across the globe with state-of-the-art information on this highly safe and increasingly popular contraceptive method. It offers quick and easy access to information on programming and policy considerations relevant to hormonal implants—information that has been reviewed by expert panels and is housed in one convenient location. The Implants Toolkit was developed by the LA/PM Community of Practice, under the leadership of The RESPOND Project/EngenderHealth, Family Health International, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Available online in English

Permanent Methods Toolkit
Contraceptive sterilization is the most commonly used family planning method worldwide, used by more than 250 million women and men. Given the number of couples who do not want more children, these permanent methods are important and relevant options for family planning programs to include in their contraceptive method mix. This toolkit was developed by members of the Long-Acting and Permanent Methods (LA/PMs) Community of Practice, under the leadership of EngenderHealth, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center for Communication Programs, FHI 360, and USAID.
Available online in English

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

Men as Partners in the Fight Against Sexual Violence in Burundi: Facilitator's Guide
RESPOND adapted EngenderHealth’s existing MAP curriculum in December 2012 to create this Men as Partners facilitator’s guide addressing harmful gender norms and attitudes in the Burundian context. The manual is intended for use in four-day MAP workshops and was used in Burundi with miners, tea plantation workers and bicycle- and moto-taxi drivers.
Available in French (PDF, 1 MB)

Engaging Boys and Men in Gender Transformation: A Spiritual Supplement Facilitating the Men as Partners Group Education Manual in Christian Settings
This supplement to Engaging Boys and Men in Gender Transformation: The Group Education Manual was created to promote gender transformation through biblical and spiritual discussion in Christian contexts, stimulate conversation and deeper reflection on gender-related topics with Christian audiences, support facilitators in dealing with difficult questions of a religious or spiritual nature, and provide facilitators with religious and spiritual justifications for gender equity and equality. It was developed jointly by RESPOND and LifeLine/ChildLine (the project partner in Namibia) with funding support from PEPFAR. The document was used by LifeLine/ChildLine to conduct gender-transformative work with men and boys and to train Christian clergy in its use for the development of sermons, pastoral counselling, religious education, and health education.
Available in English (PDF, 1.6 MB)

Stay Healthy: A Gender-Transformative HIV Prevention Curriculum for Youth in Namibia
Developed in partnership with LifeLine/ChildLine in Namibia, this prototype curriculum is meant to be used to help youth better understand the role of gender norms in the HIV epidemic and adopt healthy behaviors. Stay Healthy focuses on delaying the onset of sexual intercourse, increasing the correct and consistent use of the male condom among sexually active youth, and decreasing multiple concurrent partners among sexually active youth. Set in a Namibian context, this highly interactive curriculum comprises a series of 18 linked sessions that can be easily adapted for use with youth in school and nonschool settings, as well as with youth in other countries.
Available in English (PDF, 2 MB)

A Guide to Action for Community Mobilization and Empowerment Focused on Postabortion Complications: Facilitator’s Manual
This training manual uses the Community Action Cycle, a participatory problem-solving approach, to help community members learn to identify, prioritize, and solve the major problems relating to postabortion care in their communities.
Available in English (PDF, 2.2 MB)

Quantification of Health Commodities: Contraceptive Companion Guide
This technical brief—Using Quantification to Support Introduction and Expansion of Long-Acting and Permanent Methods of Contraception—suggests strategies for improving tools for quantifying the medical equipment, instruments, and expendable supplies needed to provide LA/PMs, as well as the likely rate of product consumption. (November 2011 USAID | DELIVER and RESPOND Project LA/PM Technical Brief)
Available in English (PDF, 1.5 MB)

Using Quantification to Support Introduction and Expansion of Long-Acting and Permanent Methods for Contraception
This contraceptive forecasting guide—Quantification of Health Commodities: Contraceptive Companion Guide, Forecasting Consumption of Contraceptive Supplies—includes a list of products required for each LA/PM, as well as related forecasting considerations.
( October 2010 USAID | DELIVER and RESPOND Project LA/PM Technical Brief)
Available in English (PDF, 313 KB)

Getting the Numbers Right: A Guide to USAID-Developed Contraceptive Forecasting Tools
November 2009
Available in English (PDF, 1.1 MB)

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