This tool provides a method for measuring the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of individual providers in six domains of gender competency: gender sensitive communication, promoting individual agency, supporting legal rights and status related to family planning, engaging men and boys as partners, facilitating positive couples’ communication and cooperative decision making, and addressing gender-based violence. By completing this self-assessment, providers can determine their current level of gender competency, and thereby identify areas of strength and weakness in each domain.

The Common Framework for Tracking Government Spending on Family Planning (FP) is an approach that holds governments accountable for meeting their commitments to fund FP supplies and service. Data collected using the Common Framework are summarized in FP budget scorecards, easy-to-understand visual snapshots that illustrate how much governments are actually allocating and spending on FP, as well as how transparent the government is in making FP budget data available to the public. This blog captures the experiences of four organizations using the FP budget scorecards to present findings and achieve their advocacy goals.

This season of Inside the FP Story, family planning program implementers, health providers, and community members explore the reasons why an intersectional lens is necessary for sexual and reproductive health programs, including family planning. Also, family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) clients share how their identities have led to unique needs, challenges, and opportunities obtaining FP/RH services—and offer recommendations for better meeting their needs.

This document, also available in French, profiles some of MOMENTUM’s dynamic youth partners working across different geographies and contexts in South Asia and West and East Africa. These partners aim to increase health knowledge and demand for health services, shift social and gender norms in their communities, improve access to quality health services, and create adolescent-responsive systems across the humanitarian-development nexus.

Using data from the 2005, 2010, and 2015 Rwanda Demographic and Health Surveys, 19,028 in-union women (15–49 years) were analyzed to examine trends in socioeconomic disparities in contraceptive use. The shrinking of gaps in contraceptive use by socioeconomic status coincided with narrowing of disparities in demand for children and with improvements in family planning services, suggesting that disadvantaged populations may have especially benefited from public programs...