Contraceptive Security
Contraceptive security exists
when every person is able to choose, obtain, and use
quality contraceptives and condoms for family planning (FP)
and for HIV/AIDS prevention. USAID strives to ensure
clients have long-term access to a range of high-quality
contraceptives, condoms, and other essential health
supplies in several ways. We invest resources to improve
distribution and availability and support commodities distribution across
all sectors - public, private, and nongovernmental
- in the countries where we work.
Learn about USAID's efforts to assist developing countries with contraceptive security
Contraceptive Security Ready Lessons
Many countries face the challenge of meeting people's needs for contraceptives and condoms on a sustainable basis. Contraceptive Security: Ready Lessons suggests some practical steps USAID Missions and their partners can take to promote and support country-led programs for contraceptive security.
- Overview [PDF, 1.2MB]
- Lesson One: Raising Awareness and Commitment [PDF, 1.2MB]
- Lesson Two: Doing a Joint Assessment [PDF, 812KB]
- Lesson Three: Taking a Whole Market Approach [PDF, 838KB]
- Lesson Four: Advocating for Sustained Commitment [PDF, 822KB]
- Lesson Five: Using Data for Decision Making [PDF, 830KB]
- Overview [PDF, 792KB]
- Lesson Six: Mobilizing Financial Resources [PDF, 583KB]
- Lesson Seven : Fostering Public-Private Collaboration for Improved Access [PDF, 903KB]
- Lesson Eight: Expanding Contraceptive Choice through Support for Underutilized Methods [PDF, 495KB]
- Lesson Nine: Reaching the Underserved [PDF, 539KB]
- Lesson Ten: Working within an Integrated Supply Chain [PDF, 485KB]
Related Links
Projects
- USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
DELIVER works in developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to build effective and efficient logistics systems for public health and FP programs. A major focus of the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT is to strengthen contraceptive security at the country level.
- Reproductive Health Interchange (RHI)
RHI is a Web-based system that collects order and shipment information for reproductive health (RH) supplies procured by USAID, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
Tools
- Contraceptive Security: A Toolkit for Policy Audiences
Produced for USAID by the Population Reference Bureau, this series of policy briefs was designed to explain different aspects of contraceptive security to policymakers, program managers, media, and civil society. This toolkit addresses changes in development assistance and how national governments are increasingly identifying ways to pay for the contraceptive needs of women and men.
- Getting the Numbers Right: A Guide to USAID-Developed Contraceptive Forecasting Tools [PDF, 1.1MB]
This guide aims to assist USAID health officers, USAID Cooperating Agencies, and USAID partners in identifying appropriate tools for forecasting contraceptive demand and need. The guide contains a narrative description of four USAID-funded tools, including the goals, uses, and requirements of each tool.
- Contraceptive Security: Ready Lessons and Ready Lessons II
This series of booklets suggests some practical steps USAID Missions and their partners can take to promote and support country-led programs for contraceptive security: strategies to establish and maintain secure supplies of contraceptives and condoms.
- Introduction to Population Projections: An E-learning Course - 08/01/08
The DemProj e-learning course instructs learners on using the DemProj Model and understanding basic demographic concepts. Divided into three parts, the course explains the basic measures of population and the processes that influence population growth and then provides step-by-step instructions in making population projections.
- SPARHCS: Strategic Pathway to Reproductive Health Commodity Security -
A Tool for Assessment, Planning, and Implementation
This tool is meant to help countries develop, implement and monitor strategies to secure essential supplies for RH/FP programs. SPARHCS is meant to bring together a wide range of stakeholders at the country or regional level to initiate concerted efforts toward the goal of RH commodity security.
- Contraceptive Security Index
The Contraceptive Security Index is a composite indicator designed to measure the degree of contraceptive security within a country, and to facilitate monitoring progress over time. The Index can be used to support priority-setting at national and international levels and to plan and advocate for policies and other interventions that promote progress toward contraceptive security.
Reports
- Fiscal Year 2009 Overview of Contraceptives and Condom Shipments - December 2011 [PDF, 1.4MB]
The report shows the locations and quantities of condoms and contraceptives provided by USAID around the world in FY 2009.
- Safeguarding Contraceptive Security in Latin America and the Caribbean - October 2008
This brief highlights key approaches and activities adopted by the Health Policy Initiative as part of USAID's Regional Initiative on Contraceptive Security in Latin America and the Caribbean. It provides an extensive list of CS resources from the Health Policy Initiative, DELIVER, and the POLICY Project.
- Mobilizing Political Support and Resources for Family Planning in a Decentralized Setting: Guidelines for Latin American and Caribbean Countries - September 2008
This paper presents case studies of and guidelines for strengthening the family planning (FP) policy environment in Latin American countries undergoing decentralization. The guidelines draw on literature on the decentralization of health systems in Latin America and on research findings garnered through key informant interviews in Bolivia and Mexico.
- Overview of Contraceptive and Condom Shipments: FY 2007 [PDF, 1.5MB]
This annual publication provides details on both the quantities and the values of USAID contraceptive and condom distribution activities in FY 2007. It presents these data by USAID region and country, affiliations of recipient organizations, and trends over the past 11 years.
- Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC)
The RHSC is a global partnership of public, private, and non-governmental organizations dedicated to ensuring that all people in low- and middle-income countries can access and use affordable, high-quality supplies to ensure their better RH. Since 2004, the RHSC has been a convener for international partners to work in a coordinated manner to secure RH supplies; it focuses on increasing resources, strengthening systems, and building effective partnerships.
- Contraceptive Security: Practical Experience in Improving Global, Regional, National, and Local Product Availability [PDF, 2.2MB]
This report by the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT documents the progress made in improving contraceptive security, as well as describing what has been done and what remains to be done to improve contraceptive product availability.
Briefs
- Using Geographic Information System Tools to Address Disparities in Access to Family Planning Services and Commodities in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF, 1.5MB]
This paper demonstrates a methodology that Latin America and the Caribbean ministries of health can easily use to geographically identify and target scarce resources to improve access to family planning.
- Ten Best Public and Private Sector Practices In Reproductive Health and Family Planning in the Europe and Eurasia Region
This brief, developed through a collaborative effort by JSI and PSP-One, synthesizes best practices in achieving RH and FP goals for the E&E region, and highlights the role of the private sector in meeting these goals.
- No Product, No Program: Financing, Procurement, and Distribution of Reproductive Health Supplies
This brief describes the components required to improve contraceptive security, including systems strengthening, supply chain vigilance, private sector involvement, supportive national policies, and global coordination and advocacy.
- Global Fund Policy Briefs
These three policy briefs focus on Global Fund financing for contraceptive security. Together they discuss various aspects of Global Fund projects, methods, financing, and procurement of reproductive health supplies in general.
Success Story
- Success Story: A Strong Supply Chain Responds to Increased Demand for Contraceptives in Rwanda [PDF, 382KB]
The account highlights how, during the last 10 years, the many changes made by the Rwandan Ministry of Health and its partners (including the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT) led to an increased demand for family planning at the local level. As a result, Rwanda made impressive gains in its contraceptive prevalence rate, which would not have been possible without a parallel increase in availability of the commodities needed to provide these services.
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