Trends in Technology-Aided Family Planning Among Young People in Kenya
With more and more young people in Kenya accessing mobile devices and onboarding technology, mobile technology is becoming a promising method to disseminate important family planning information and services, especially among young girls and women.
Sustaining PHE Activities in Kenya and Uganda: Webinar Recap
In 2022, Knowledge SUCCESS collaborated with 128 Collective (formerly Preston-Werner Ventures) to conduct a rapid stock-taking exercise to document the impact of HoPE-LVB, an integrated Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) project in Kenya and Uganda. During a recent webinar, panelists shared how HoPE-LVB activities continue in the two countries.
Intergenerational Dialogues on Family Planning and SRH Services
Though discussions around reproductive health services should be open to all, adolescent boys and girls experience often don’t get to take part in them, with their parents and guardians making most decisions about health on their behalf. Kenya’s health department is implementing various interventions focusing on young people. Through The Challenge Initiative’s (TCI) program, Mombasa County
Accelerating Young People’s Access to Contraceptive Services
Pharmacies play a critical role in providing access to reproductive health services in low-resource settings in Kenya. Without this private-sector resource, the country would not be able to meet the needs of its young people. Kenya’s National Family Planning Guidelines for Service Providers allow pharmacists and pharmaceutical technologists to counsel, dispense, and provide condoms, pills, and
Kenya Includes Contraceptive Injections in Its Pharmacist Training Package
Working alongside family planning advocates, Jhpiego Kenya applied the nine-step SMART advocacy approach to engage stakeholders in the creation of a new pharmacist training package. The updated curriculum includes that includes instruction on providing contraceptive injectables DMPA-IM and DMPA-SC.
Engaging Faith-Based Organizations in Family Planning Advocacy
Faith-based organizations (FBOs) and faith institutions are often perceived as not supporting family planning (FP). However, FBOs have publicly shown support for FP for some time and play a vital role in health care service delivery, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
Challenging Social Norms on Disability
Sarah V. Harlan, Partnerships Team Lead for Knowledge SUCCESS, spoke with Cynthia Bauer, the Founder and Executive Director of Kupenda for the Children. Kupenda is a non-profit organization whose mission is to transform harmful beliefs surrounding disability to those that improve children’s lives.
A Closer Look at Community Health and Family Planning in Action
The Knowledge SUCCESS East African team engaged its partners at Living Goods East Africa (Kenya and Uganda) for an in-depth discussion on their community health strategy for implementing programs and how innovations are essential towards enhancing global development.
How Are Governments Ensuring that Voluntary Family Planning Remains an “Essential Service” During COVID-19?
In a variety of ways that suit their contexts, countries around the world have adapted international guidance on providing family planning care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tracking the extent to which these new policies are successful in maintaining women’s access to safe, high-quality care will provide valuable lessons for responses to future public health emergencies.
Integrating FP/RH into HIV Programming: Experiences from the Kibera Reach 90 Project
The integration of voluntary family planning and reproductive health care (FP/RH) with HIV service provision ensures FP information and services are made available to women and couples living with HIV without discrimination. Our partners at Amref Health Africa discuss the challenges of effectively addressing FP needs for vulnerable clients living in informal settlements and slum areas,