1. Build capacity of FBO-managed health facilities and community-based providers of voluntary family planning services | CHAK built capacity through consultative meetings with participating health facilities and community stakeholder groups and developed capacity-building action plans. Health care workers and CHVs from each health facility were trained on provision of family planning services. CHAK provided technical assistance to family planning focal point persons through regular consultations and site visits, and CCIH provided long-distance technical assistance.
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2. Sensitize religious leaders | Religious leaders were trained and given tools in support of referring clients and educating parishioners about family planning in churches, women's groups, and men's group, using materials developed by CHAK. Religious leaders participated in monthly meetings to support their family planning work.
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3. Mobilize communities | Religious leaders and CHVs engaged in monthly dialogue days aimed at educating communities about family planning, dispelling myths, presenting family planning as consistent with Biblical principles, and explaining the benefits of family planning. CHVs distributed information, education, and communication materials to health facilities. CHVs and religious leaders engaged in ongoing community education and information sharing (often presenting together at the same event), including sensitization meetings in churches and communities.
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4. Improve family planning access and referrals from communities to health facilities | Health facilities carried out quarterly outreach events to offer voluntary family planning services. CHVs carried out monthly community-based distribution of pills, condoms, and Cycle Beads. Religious leaders and CHVs referred clients to health facilities for family planning services.
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5. Advocate for improved commodity security from MOH and county health departments | CHAK participated in family planning policy and planning meetings at county and national levels. CHAK supported health facility staff to attend quarterly county meetings to discuss family planning distribution to their facilities. Access to family planning commodities was ensured through strong collaboration with the county and national health management.
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