Basics of Community-Based Family Planning: Facilitator and Participant Guides

The Basics of Community-Based Family Planning (FP) curriculum is designed for the implementation of a two-week workshop organised as follows: Week one includes the key elements of a quality community-based FP programme; and week two takes the participant through the process of programme design, monitoring, and evaluation (PDME) of community-based FP programmes. The workshop is designed to bring together middle- to senior-level managers and specialists working in the areas of PDME and FP or interested in integrating community-based FP programming into their current project(s). This curriculum explains the key elements of a quality community-based FP programme and technical and programmatic concepts of FP service delivery such as: 1. Overview of FP and birth spacing at the global and individual level 2. Contraceptive technology and FP counseling 3. FP service provision 4. Barriers to FP service delivery and models to increase access 5. Community mobilisation 6. Quality of Care 7. Behaviour Change 8. Male Involvement 9. FP programming for youth 10. Integration into existing health activities 11. Contraceptive logistics It explains a six-step process for developing a project design using a results framework and a monitoring and evaluation plan that is linked to the project design.