Gender can affect how people (especially women and girls) access family planning services in Nigeria; however, providers are often unaware of their own gender biases and lack the skills to address this barrier. The SHOPS Plus program in Nigeria addressed gender as part of family planning…
Resource Type : Brief
Country : Nigeria
Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS Plus
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Language : English
Technical Area: Gender, Provider Quality
Understanding where women obtain their family planning methods can help programs to better target their resources and increase overall access to modern contraception. This brief is one in a series of country briefs that examines where women obtain modern contraception by method, geography, age,…
Resource Type : Brief
Country :
Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS Plus
Year :
Language : English
Technical Area: Total Market Approach
Vouchers are a health financing tool in the form of tokens, which are distributed to target populations who exchange them for free or discounted health services at participating clinics. In the context of family planning programs, vouchers are a High Impact Practice Enhancement to expand access…
Resource Type : Brief
Country :
Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS Plus
Year :
Language : English
Technical Area: Digital Health, Health Financing
To best target resources to improve contraceptive access, equity, and choice, family planning program implementers need to understand where women obtain their contraceptives now and in the future. SHOPS Plus created two interactive data visualization tools to address this need: …
Resource Type : Webinar
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS Plus
Year :
Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement, Total Market Approach
On June 18, 2019, USAID, implementing partners, researchers, and other stakeholders convened in Crystal City to gain a deeper understanding of demographic and epidemiological patterns and trends in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Speakers from USAID emphasized that these trends…
Resource Type : Report
Country :
Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS Plus
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Language : English
Technical Area:
The Family Planning Market Analyzer combines data from Demographic and Health Surveys and Family Planning 2020’s projections of modern contraceptive prevalence to allow users to explore potential scenarios as part of a total market approach, including…
Resource Type : Brief
Country :
Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS Plus
Year :
Language : English
Technical Area: Total Market Approach
SHOPS Plus conducted a qualitative study to identify barriers and facilitating factors that influence the provision of family planning counseling by private sector providers in two different country contexts. This brief presents the results of the study using a behavioral economics lens to…
Resource Type : Brief
Country : India
Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS Plus
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
SHOPS Plus collected data from married couples, caregivers of children under five, and adults in urban India to understand knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to family planning, diarrhea management, and stigma related to tuberculosis. The project is using the findings to inform behavior…
Resource Type :
Country : India
Health Area: Family Planning, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Tuberculosis
Project: SHOPS Plus
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Language : English
Technical Area: Social and Behavior Change
Despite the desire of most Afghans to have a large family, a substantial unmet need for spacing births demonstrates the potential for increased voluntary uptake of modern contraceptives in Afghanistan. Focusing on those who intend to use contraception in the future could nearly double the…
Resource Type : Brief
Country : Afghanistan
Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS Plus
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Language : English
Technical Area: Total Market Approach
A SHOPS Plus household survey identified factors that encourage and impede family planning uptake, diarrhea prevention and treatment practices, and safe water treatment in Afghanistan. For example, nearly 80 percent of women reported that their husbands determine their family planning use, and…
Resource Type : Presentation
Country : Afghanistan
Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS Plus
Year :
Language : English
Technical Area: Pharmaceutical Partnerships and Social Marketing
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