Issue 8, June 2022
What's New With the HIPs
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Welcome to the latest edition of the High Impact Practices in Family Planning (HIP) Newsletter!
This newsletter informs you of new HIP materials, webinars, and other activities on a quarterly basis. Share widely using the subscription link below!
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New and Upcoming HIP Products
The HIPs Partnership is pleased to announce the release of the following new and updated HIP products:
- NEW
- UPDATED:
- TRANSLATIONS:
- Strategic Planning Guide - Creating equitable access to high-quality family planning information and services. Now available in Portuguese.
- Pharmacies and Drug Shops - Expanding contraceptive choice and access in the private sector. Now available in Spanish and Portuguese.
- Family Planning and Immunization Integration - Reaching postpartum women with family planning services. Now available in Spanish and Portuguese.
COMING SOON
- New HIP Products:
- Knowledge, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Self-Efficacy
- Social Norms: Promoting Community Support for Family Planning
- Social and Behavior Change Overview
- Social Accountability to Improve Family Planning Information and Services
- Comprehensive Policy Processes: The agreements that outline health goals and the actions to realize them
- Strategic Planning Guide to Facilitate the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Family Planning Programming
- Translations
- FP & Immunization Integration - French
- Social Marketing - French
- Product Introduction SPG - French, Spanish, Portuguese
- Pharmacies and Drug Shops - French
- Enabling Environment Overview - French, Spanish, Portuguese
- Meaningful Adolescent and Youth Engagement SPG - French, Spanish, Portuguese
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Introducing New HIP Technical Advisory Group Members
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The HIP Technical Advisory Group (TAG) recently welcomed three new members. The TAG is made up of experts in family planning research, program implementation, policymakers, and representatives from donor agencies. Please give a warm welcome to:
Dr. Salma Ibrahim Anas is the Director, Family Health Services, Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria where she leads key Divisions including Reproductive Health, Child Health and Gender, Adolescent, School Health and Elderly Care (GASHE), Nutrition and Health Promotion Divisions. Her technical skills and expertise cut across Health Systems Strengthening with particular reference to PHC and Health System Strengthening and a passion for improving access to quality Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child Adolescent and Elderly Health plus Nutrition (RMNCAEH+N) services, including Sexual and Reproductive Rights, as well as Gender Based Violence.
Dr. Caroline Kabiru leads the Population Dynamics and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Unit at the African Population and Health Research Center—a Pan-African research institution and think tank that generates evidence to drive policy action to improve the health and wellbeing of African people. Much of her research focuses on young people’s health and well-being in low-resource and marginalized urban settings and covers topics ranging from sexual and reproductive health to mental health.
Mr. Gamachis Shogo currently serves as Family Planning and Reproductive Health Commodity Security Technical Specialist in UNFPA Sierra Leone Country Office where he is coordinating the development of an integrated commodity security strategy, the realization of a national mechanism for defining contraceptive supplies needs and resources as well as ensuring visibility and accountability at the last mile.
Read more about other TAG members, their meetings and their roles and responsibilities.
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December HIP TAG Meeting
The HIPs Technical Advisory Group (TAG) held its semi-annual meeting from November 30-December 1, 2021, virtually co-hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and FP2030. During the virtual meeting, the TAG accomplished its goals of reviewing draft HIP materials and making recommendations regarding the strength and consistency of the evidence and adherence to the HIP criteria, and continuing to refine HIP processes and identify priority activities.
Highlights from the TAG agenda include:
- Updates on progress from the June 2021 TAG meeting
- Review and recommendations to forthcoming HIP briefs:
- Enabling Environment Overview
- Policy brief
- Leaders and Managers brief
- Social Accountability brief
- Production & Dissemination Team update
- Gray Scale for 3 forthcoming SBC HIP briefs: Social Norms; Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs; and Self-Efficacy
The full meeting report is available on the HIP website, including the presentations. For more information about the TAG experts, roles, and responsibilities, click here.
The TAG’s next meeting will be virtually on Zoom in June. |
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Recent HIP Webinars
The HIPs Partnership is pleased to share the recordings for two recent webinars. Thank you to all of the partners who shared their time and expertise to produce these webinars!
- “Creating equitable access to high-quality family planning information and services” (November 2021). With opening remarks by Petrus Steyn, WHO and Rhobbinah Ssempebwa, USAID, this webinar began with Sara Statton, HIP TAG/Palladium Group, providing an introduction to the HIP Discussion Paper, Equity in Family Planning Programs and the recent journal article in the Bulletin of the WHO (see above). Jill Peterson, FHI 360/R4S, provided an overview of the HIP Strategic Planning Guide, Creating equitable access to high-quality family planning information and services. Dinah Nakiganda, Ministry of Health, Uganda provided a country perspective, sharing Uganda’s experience and perspectives on exploring how to address equity within the national family planning program.
- “Social Marketing: Using marketing principles and techniques to improve contraceptive access, choice, and use” (January 2022). Martyn Smith, FP2030 and Clancy Broxton, USAID gave an introduction to the HIPs and the history of social marketing. Ram Ganesan, Abt Associates, provided an overview of the HIP brief on Social Marketing, including key elements and evidence of impact. Jiblal Pokharel, CRS Nepal, shared experience of the history of social marketing in Nepal and continual growth to meet Nepal’s evolving needs, and the donor and market context.
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Save the Date! Webinar on Contraceptive Method Introduction to Expand Choice
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Inside the FP Story Podcast
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Inside the FP Story podcast explores the details of family planning programming. In the second season of Inside the FP Story, Knowledge SUCCESS and the World Health Organization (WHO)/IBP Network collaborated to explore issues around implementing High-Impact Practices in Family Planning (HIPs) and WHO guidelines and tools. Featuring six episodes, this season features guests from 15 countries around the world on not only what they did in their programs, but how they did it. The stories offer practical examples—and specific guidance—on implementing High-Impact Practices in Family Planning and using the latest tools and guidance from WHO.
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HIP Partner Spotlight:
Family Planning NSW
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The HIP Partnership recently expanded to include over 65 global organizations. As part of a new HIP Newsletter series, we will feature Q&A's with new and longstanding HIP Partners.
Q: Please share a brief overview of the work Family Planning NSW focuses on.A: Family Planning NSW is the leading provider of reproductive and sexual health services in NSW and Australia. We are experts in clinical service provision, health promotion, research and comprehensive sexuality education. Our mission is to enhance the reproductive and sexual health and rights of our communities by supporting all people to have control over and decide freely on all matters related to their reproductive and sexual health. Our work is evidence-based and shaped by our research.
Each year we provide more than 31,000 clinical occasions of service to clients, information and health promotion activities to communities, and best practice education and training in reproductive and sexual health for health professionals, educators, disability support workers and professionals.
Our services are targeted to marginalised and disadvantaged members of the community, including young people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, and people with disability. Internationally, we work in the Pacific to improve reproductive and sexual health outcomes in the Pacific and further develop the capacity of local partners to deliver services and education to clinicians, communities, teachers, government officials and young people across three program streams: contraceptive choices; cervical screening; and, comprehensive sexuality education.
Q: How did you first hear about the HIPs?
A: Family Planning NSW first heard about the HIP in Family Planning from our partners at IPPF East and South East Asia and Oceania Region.
Q: What excites you about being part of the HIP Partnership?
A: Family Planning NSW is excited to be part of an innovative and evidence-based partnership that aims to build the evidence base around best practice in family planning.
Q: Which HIP product does Family Planning NSW consult most often?
A: Enabling Environment - Policy: Building the foundation for systems, services, and supplies
If your organization would like to be featured in future HIP newsletters, please reach out to us!
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