Make It Count: Reality √: A Planning and Advocacy Tool for Strengthening Family Planning Programs, Version 2

What Is Reality √?
This updated version of the user-friendly Excel-based tools and User's Guide helps family planning professionals to plan and advocate based on informed estimates of need, by examining the relationship of contraceptive prevalence and population to numbers of family planning users, adopters, and commodities.

Sample questions that Reality √ Version 2 can answer include:

• If past contraceptive prevalence trends continue, where will we be in 10 years?
• Is the new goal for modern method prevalence in the next five years realistic?
• What would be the impact of reaching that goal?
• The national program is adding Sino-implant (II) to the method mix. If we have 100,000 adopters a year, how many removals can we expect annually?

Why Use Reality √?
Reality √ fills a critical gap in generating data necessary for evidence-based planning and advocacy in family planning programs: The ability to quantify contraceptive goals and their corresponding numbers of users and commodities is fundamental to accurate planning for contraceptive service delivery. Reality √ can be also used for advocacy, helping users advocate for resources to achieve family planning goals by illustrating the inputs required as well as the potential impact of realizing them.

Start planning and advocating for strengthening family planning programs by downloading the complete package of Reality √ Version 2.