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Burkina Faso Government

The government of Burkina Faso integrated key results from ¾«¶«Ó°Òµâ€™s family planning and nutrition surveys into their 2018, 2019, and 2020 statistical bulletins, allowing ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ data to be accessible to a number of actors and partners in-country who use the statistical bulletin for planning and monitoring progress for their interventions. The Burkina Ministry of Health used ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ data in setting the 2016-2019 strategic plan for family planning. They also used the annual data to evaluate their progress towards goals. The Minister of Health in Burkina Faso has initiated the review and updating of the National Plan for Family Planning Acceleration and has requested ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ data for this process. This video from the Burkina Faso Minister of Health highlights the impact ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ data has had in her country.

DMPA-SC in Nigeria

¾«¶«Ó°Òµ data on DMPA-SC were presented and discussed by the Nigerian Ministry of Health, Alliance for Family Planning, DKT International, John Snow, Inc, PATH, and ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ at a September 2018 Essential Medicine List (EML) group meeting, resulting in the inclusion of ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ DMPA-SC in the EML in December 2018. This permits the private sector to access and provide DMPA-SC, and generally ensures a more sustainable procurement plan for the injectable.

¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Ethiopia

¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Ethiopia provides key indicators to monitor the success of the DfID Family Planning by Choice project, implemented with the Federal Ministry of Health. ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Ethiopia data is also cited in the as a data source for monitoring and evaluating family planning services.

Advance Family Planning

¾«¶«Ó°Òµ and Advance Family Planning have a longstanding partnership in many countries, as sister projects within the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, working in many of the same countries. 

Examples of prior collaboration include the joint creation of an advocacy brief using ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ data on DMPA-SC in two pilot regions in Burkina Faso to inform the national scale-up of the program. 

Government of Rajasthan, India

The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of Rajasthan, India, integrated the critical findings from ¾«¶«Ó°Òµâ€™s family planning survey to review and compare the results for policy formation and implementation. ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ data are a regular source of data for the Ministry of Health, Government of Rajasthan for developing policy on family planning and how these policies have affected contraceptive prevalence, unmet needs, method mix, continuation, and the reasons behind the discontinuation of the FP method. The information generated through these surveys has helped the state government to monitor the ongoing health and family welfare programs effectively.

Costed Implementation Plans

The Uganda Ministry of Health has used data from multiple rounds of ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ surveys to develop and contribute to key family planning policy and program goals for their 2015-2020 costed implementation plan (CIP). Health facility data on contraceptive method stock-outs are being used by the Ministry of Health to review and strategize different approaches to improving supply chain management and contraceptive availability at health facilities.

As part of the FP2020 initiative, ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ data were also a regular source of data used by Track20 focal points and Ministries of Health in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, and Niger for tracking progress against their CIPs. The Kano State Ministry of Health in Nigeria used ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ data to help inform their CIP for childbirth spacing.