Resources

Brief

Report

A new report and two briefs from the Evidence Project/Population Council outline recommendations for improving awareness and use of national health insurance for family planning and reproductive health services by the urban poor in Uttar Pradesh, India. In 2008, the Government of India launched the National Health Insurance Scheme, Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), to […]

Toolkit

Published 2016 The Balanced Counseling Strategy Plus (BCS+) toolkit, developed and tested in Kenya and South Africa, provides the information and materials that healthcare providers need to offer complete, high-quality family planning counseling to clients living in areas with high rates of HIV and STIs. The BCS+ was adapted from the Balanced Counseling Strategy (León 1999; León et […]

Working Paper

Efforts to expand the vision for constructive male engagement are evolving from encouraging men to be supportive partners of women’s reproductive health to also focus on meeting men’s own reproductive health needs and engaging men as contraceptive users and agents of change in families and communities. Knowledge about reaching men as clients of family planning […]

Brief

Report

            Senegal’s 2012-2015 National Family Planning Action Plan (2012-2015 NFPAP) is based on the 3D approach (Democratization, Demedicalization, and Decentralization). As the 2012-2015 NFPAP came to an end and a new plan was being developed, the Evidence Project/Population Council conducted a study to document the implementation and achievements of the […]

Report

The Evidence Project, with partners the Population Council and Management Sciences for Health, conducted a two-part study of the Scaling Up Family Planning project (coordinated by Abt Associates and funded by DfID) to identify the contributions, challenges, and lessons learned. The objectives of this research were to: Provide recommendations regarding the feasibility of integrating the […]