TABLE 2.

Key Program Strategies Before and After the Formative Assessment (New Activities in Bold)

2011–20132014–2016Formative Assessment Themes Addressed
Supply-side activities
  • Competency-based clinical training

  • Provision of commodities and equipment

  • Supportive supervision

  • Support for data collection and use

  • Competency-based clinical training

  • Provision of supplies and equipment

  • Supportive supervision

  • Support for data collection and use

  • Systematic clinical coaching and tracking individual provider competence

  • Peer supervision by high-performing providers

  • Values clarification activities with providers

  • Introduction of LNG-IUS

  • Introduction of Population Council's Balanced Counseling Strategy

  • Quality of services

  • Side effects

Demand-side activities
  • Large community meetings on the benefits and availability of family planning

  • Home visits by community health workers that include discussion of family planning

  • Large, multichannel SBCC campaigns on family planning

  • Community mobilization by satisfied users

  • Targeted outreach to male partners

  • Actively dispelling rumors about certain methods

  • Home visits by community health workers that include discussion of family planning

  • Lack of knowledge; misconceptions, rumors, misunderstanding; sources of information

  • Influential people in decision making

  • Abbreviations: SBCC, social and behavior change communication; LNG-IUS, levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system.