RESPOND Announces a new Collaborative Product to Advance Contraceptive Security

RESPOND is pleased to announce the newly released publication, Quantification of Health Commodities: Contraceptive Companion Guide.

A companion to last year’s technical brief, Quantification of Health Commodities: A Guide to Forecasting and Supply Planning for Procurement, this guide is to be used to support the forecasting step in conducting a quantification for contraceptive supplies following the project's approach to quantification. It presents a methodology for forecasting consumption of contraceptives and the additional medical equipment, instruments, and expendable supplies needed to provide both short-acting methods (SAM) and long-acting and permanent methods of contraception (LA/PM). Throughout the guide, examples of forecasting for a short-acting method (contraceptive pills) and a long-acting and permanent method of contraception (introduction of contraceptive implants) are presented to illustrate the data sources, forecasting assumptions, and the outputs at each step.

The development of this collaborative product was led by the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, with technical input from EngenderHealth/RESPOND.