This HIP brief details how to comprehensively develop, implement, and monitor policies to support high-quality family planning at scale. The brief offers evidence and tips to support policies that enable rights-based family planning, an essential component in creating an enabling environment for and guiding the provision of high-quality family planning programs and services. Read More
Policy Brief
Social Norms: Promoting Community Support for Family Planning
This brief describes the evidence from interventions that use reflective dialogue, interpersonal communication, mass and/or social media, digital technologies, or a combination of these channels to fortify or shift social norms to increase social support for voluntary family planning. Read More
CHARISMA Mobile: A Digital Empowerment Counseling Resource to Help Women Use PrEP Safely
CHARISMA is an empowerment-based, counselor-administered intervention that was adapted into a mobile-friendly, self-administered website, CHARISMA Mobile. The brief explains CHARISMA Mobile’s purpose and how to use the online content to support women and adolescent girls and young women, including how to adapt it for different audiences or contexts. Read More
Promoting Healthy Couples’ Communication to Improve Reproductive Health Outcomes
This brief provides evidence linking couple communication to family planning and reproductive health outcomes, and documents evidence from numerous studies that describe the role of social and behavior change interventions in facilitating this critical behavior. At community and social levels, social norms also influence an individual’s or couple’s desire for, and access to, family planning methods. Read More
Knowledge, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Self-Efficacy: Strengthening an Individual’s Ability to Achieve Their Reproductive Intentions
This brief explains the link between four individual level factors—knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and self-efficacy—and family planning outcomes. It also documents social and behavioral change interventions that have addressed these factors and been effective at improving family planning outcomes. The brief finds that, at the interpersonal level, couple communication and joint decision-making is particularly important in the voluntary uptake of contraceptive methods. Read More
Literature Review of Family Based Accommodation, Hosting and Alternative Care Guidance and Procedures for Promising Practice of GBV Risk Mitigation in Private and Community Based Accommodation
This paper focuses on promising practices from shelter, hosting, and alternative care guidance and procedures that mitigate gender-based violence (GBV) risks. It is envisaged that this review will inform the development of a practical guidance resource and a key messages brief that address GBV risk mitigation in private and community-based accommodation provided to refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. Read More
