5. RESOURCES

Evidence-based proven practices

HIGH IMPACT PRACTICES

Galvanizing commitments

https://www.fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/galvanizing-commitment/ 

Comprehensive policy processes

https://www.fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/policy/ 

Domestic public financing

https://www.fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/domestic-public-financing/ 

Leading and managing human rights-based approaches to family planning

https://www.fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/leaders-and-managers/ 

Community Health Workers: Bringing family planning services to where people live and work https://fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/community-health-workers/

Immediate Postpartum Family Planning: A key component of childbirth care. 

https://fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/immediate-postpartum-family-planning/

Mobile Outreach Services: Expanding access to a full range of modern contraceptives 

https://fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/mobile-outreach-services/

Postabortion Family Planning: A critical component of post-abortion care. 

https://fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/postabortion-family-planning/

Social Marketing: Using marketing principles and techniques to improve contraceptive access, choice and use https://fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/social-marketing/

Pharmacies and Drug Shops: Expanding contraceptive choice and access in the private sector https://fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/drug-shops-and-pharmacies/

Family Planning and Immunization Integration: Reaching postpartum women with family planning services https://fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/family-planning-and-immunization-integration/

Social Accountability to improve family planning information and services. 

https://fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/social-accountability/

Supply Chain Management: Investing in the supply chain is critical to achieving family planning goals https://fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/supply-chain-management/

Digital Health to Support Family Planning Providers: Improving knowledge, capacity, and service quality https://fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/digital-health-to-support-family-planning-providers/

Digital Health for Systems: Strengthening Family Planning Systems Through Time and Resource Efficiencies 

https://fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/digital-health-systems/

Task Sharing Family Planning Services to Increase Health Workforce Efficiency and Expand Access: A Strategic Planning Guide https://www.fphighimpactpractices.org/guides/task-sharing-family-planning-services/ 

OTHER SOURCES

UNFPA. Recent Success Stories in Reproductive Health Commodity Security. 

https://www.unfpa.org/publications/success-stories-reproductive-health-commodity-security 

UNFPA. Regional evaluation of UNFPA´s contribution to Family Planning and Commodity Security in Latin American and Caribbean. https://lac.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/english_version.pdf 

Provision of Sexual and Reproductive Health Care and Family Planning during the COVID-19 pandemic health emergency in Latin America and the Caribbean

https://lac.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/3-Covid-SSRyPF_ENG%20%281%29.pdf 


World Health Organization publications on quality family planning information, products and services

WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines

https://www.who.int/groups/expert-committee-on-selection-and-use-of-essential-medicines/essential-medicines-lists 

WHO Model List of Essential Medicines, 22nd list, 2021

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-MHP-HPS-EML-2021.02 

Family Planning: A global handbook for providers, 2018 edition

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9780999203705 

WHO guideline on self-care interventions for health and well-being, 2022 revision https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240052192

Community and provider-driven social accountability intervention for family planning and contraceptive service provision: experiences from the field

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240031913

Integration of HIV testing and linkage in family planning and contraception services: implementation brief https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240035188 

Digital Adaptation Kit for Family Planning: Operational requirements for implementing WHO recommendations in digital systems https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240029743

Providing Family Planning Services During an Epidemic

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/providing-family-planning-services-during-an-epidemic

Family Planning for Adolescents and Women at High Risk for HIV

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/family-planning-for-adolescents-and-women-at-high-risk-for-hiv

Preventing HIV and other STIs among women and girls using contraceptive services in contexts with high HIV incidence. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-UCN-HHS-19.58

Contraception, evidence brief

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-RHR-19.18

WHO, Contraception 

https://www.who.int/health-topics/contraception#tab=tab_1 

Programming strategies for Postpartum Family Planning https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/93680/9789241506496_eng.pdf 

WHO, Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241549158 

WHO, New App for WHO’s Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use

https://www.who.int/news/item/29-08-2019-new-app-for-who-s-medical-eligibility-criteria-for-contraceptive-use

Family Planning: A global handbook for providers, 2018 edition

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9780999203705 

Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health Data Portal

https://www.who.int/data/maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-ageing/global-strategy-data#:~:text=The%20Global%20Strategy%20for%20Women's,overall%20health%20and%20well%2Dbeing 

Ensuring human rights within contraceptive service delivery, UNFPA/WHO implementation guide https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/158866/9789241549103_eng.pdf


Health systems strengthening

John Snow, Inc. 2017. The Supply Chain Manager’s Handbook, A Practical Guide to the Management of Health Commodities. Arlington, Va.: John Snow, Inc. https://supplychainhandbook.jsi.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/JSI_Supply_Chain_Manager%27s_Handbook_Final-1.pdf

USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, Task Order 4. 2014. Quantification of Health Commodities: A Guide to Forecasting and Supply Planning for Procurement. Arlington, Va.: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, Task Order 4. https://www.ghsupplychain.org/sites/default/files/2019-07/QuantificationHealthComm.pdf

JSI and SIAPS. 2015. Quantification of Health Commodities: RMNCH Supplement Forecasting Consumption of Select Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Commodities. Submitted to the United States Agency for International Development by the Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Programme. Arlington, VA: Management Sciences for Health. Submitted to the United Nations Children’s Fund by JSI, Arlington, VA: JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. https://www.rhsupplies.org/uploads/tx_rhscpublications/Quantification-of-Health-Commodities-6-11-16-3.pdf 

UNAIDS, Developing effective condom programmes, 2020

https://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/UNFPA_UNAIDS_TechBrief.pdf 

WHO, Guideline on self-care interventions for health and well-being, 2022

https://files.magicapp.org/guideline/411b5969-8716-4e88-99ae-7ee0be1416eb/published_guideline_5512-3_0.pdf 


Data and evidence to inform policy and programme decisions and measure impact 

Guttmacher Institute, Adding It Up: Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2020

https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2020/provision-essential-sexual-and-reproductive-health-care-would-reduce-unintended 

Estimates and Projections of Family Planning Indicators 2020 

http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/theme/family-planning/cp_model.shtml 

Methods for Estimating and Projecting Key Family Planning Indicators Among All Women of Reproductive Age https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/technical/TP2018-2.pdf

The Population Data Portal (PDP) is UNFPA’s ultimate data source and tracker for population and development data. It combines the newest population data on topics like sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, family planning, maternal health or gender-based violence gathered from a multiple sources. The Population Data Portal is available at https://pdp.unfpa.org/

FP2030 Data Hub - The FP2020’s Performance Monitoring & Evidence Working Group, a group of global measurement experts, established a set of Core Indicators. The Core Indicators were selected with existing country data systems and monitoring efforts in mind, and were designed to capture information on contraceptive use, method choice, quality, availability and other key aspects of family planning programmes. Available at https://fp2030.org/data-hub 

How is CYP calculated? Available at https://www.usaid.gov/global-health/health-areas/family-planning/couple-years-protection-cyp 

The Family Planning and Reproductive Health Indicators Database provides a comprehensive listing of the most widely used indicators for evaluating family planning and reproductive health programmes in low- and middle-income country contexts. The database contains definitions, data requirements, data sources, purposes, and issues for core indicators along with links to other websites and documents containing additional family planning and reproductive health indicators. Available at https://www.data4impactproject.org/resources/prh-family-planning-and-reproductive-health-indicators-database/ 

IBP Network - A GLOBAL PLATFORM FOR LOCAL IMPACT - With over 100 member organizations representing international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), local civil society organizations, academia and others, the IBP Network convenes partners to share best practices, experiences and tools to support family planning and reproductive health programming. Activities focus on supporting knowledge exchange, documentation and implementation research efforts. Available at https://ibpnetwork.org/page/about-ibp-network 

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs - Publication on World Fertility Trends and World Population Trends. Available at: https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/family/World_Fertility_and_Family_Planning_2020_Highlights.pdf 

The Data Use Acceleration and Learning (DUAL) initiative is a partnership between PATH and Cooper/Smith that is sharing what works, and what does not to achieve digital transformation for data use. Available at https://www.acceleratedatause.org/ and report available at https://www.acceleratedatause.org/report 

Humanitarian settings: delivering family planning to populations affected by disasters, conflicts and climate instability 

Family Planning in Humanitarian Settings: A Strategic Planning Guide (FP HIP series) https://www.fphighimpactpractices.org/guides/family-planning-in-humanitarian-settings/

Inter-Agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings (Chapter 3 MISP; Chapter 7 Contraception) https://iawgfieldmanual.com/manual

Inter-Agency Emergency Reproductive Health Kits for use in Humanitarian Settings (2019) https://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/resource-pdf/IARH-Kits-6th-Edition_Manual_English.pdf

MISP Readiness Assessment 

https://fp2030.org/sites/default/files/ready_to_save_lives/MISP_readiness_assessment.pdf

UNFPA Humanitarian Supplies Strategy 2021-2025 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rRdAFRkXsq0W9Yp_FvFPOrLg9fhvKlZ_/view?usp=sharing

The UNFPA Standard Operating Procedures for Humanitarian Settings (TBC - Under revision) 

Adolescents and youth: contraceptive needs as part of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights

Girls Education, Empowerment, and Transitions to Adulthood: The Case for a Shared Agenda makes a case for why leveraging education to facilitate girls’ transitions to healthy, safe, and productive adulthood is the single most important development investment that can be made

http://www.icrw.org/publications/girls-education-empowerment-and-transitions-adulthood

My Body, My Life, My World - UNFPA Youth Strategy

https://www.unfpa.org/youthstrategy 

International Technical and Programmatic Guidance on Out-of-School Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) https://www.unfpa.org/featured-publication/international-technical-and-programmatic-guidance-out-school-comprehensive

International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education

https://iite.unesco.org/publications/international-technical-guidance-on-sexuality-education/ 

Educating girls is a High Impact Practice (HIP) for family planning: https://www.fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/educating-girls/