Dear Colleagues and Partners,

Please join us on October 1, 2020, from 09:00 to 10:30 Washington / 14:00 Abuja / 15:00 Geneva / 16:00 Nairobi for a webinar on Elevating Quality of Care in Voluntary Family Planning Services. This webinar will bring together experiences from the USAID-funded “SIFPO2” and “SHOPS Plus” projects, discussing how quality of care is examined, understood, and measured from system, provider, and client perspectives.  Presentations will offer practical experiences from Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda, and discuss how the global discourse on quality of care continues to evolve.

REGISTER HERE for the Webinar!  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8291457177034875151

@ibp_network

Best regards,

Ados V. May, MPA | IBP Network | Senior Technical Advisor

1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 550 | Washington, DC 20004 |

www.ibpnetwork.org o: +1 202 808 3846 | m: +1 202 999 8816 |

email: ados.may@... | Skype: adosmay

Apologies for cross-posting, there was formatting errors in the previous email!

Register now for this exciting webinar coming up on September 24^th!  Information and registration link below!

Join us for this webinar, co-hosted by the IAWG’s MISP Sub-Working Group

Register here

Advancing localization efforts to improve SRHR in humanitarian settings

Date: Thursday, September 24^th at 8:30AM EST – 10:00 EST

Localization recognizes the importance of local actors in leading and designing solutions that impact their own communities. For SRH actors working in humanitarian settings, localization is critical to ensuring emergency preparedness and response efforts are responsive, innovative and levering the expertise and voices of women, girls and gender nonconforming people most affected by crises.

This panel will share findings from:

1)      A program partnering with the government of Egypt to make their national public health system more resilient and receptive to Syrian refugees

2)      A successful model for engaging women and adolescents with disabilities in SRHR programming in Burundi

3)      A collaboration with five women-focused civil society organizations in Lebanon aimed at providing them with access to the platforms, people, and resources needed to sustain and expand their work

Moderator:

Naomi Tulau -Solanke, NEAR (Network for Empowered Aid Response)

Panelists:

Mahi Bebawi, Pathfinder Egypt

Sidonie Nduwimana, Burundi National Association of the Deaf

Rita Nehme and Aanjalie Roane, Women Deliver

Dear IBP Colleagues,

Please see the newly published WHO Factsheet on Infertility.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/infertility

Key facts

• Infertility is a disease of the male or female reproductive system defined by the failure to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse.(1)
• Infertility affects millions of people of reproductive age worldwide – and has an impact on their families and communities. Estimates suggest that between 48 million couples and 186 million individuals live with infertility globally. (2, 3, 4)
• In the male reproductive system, infertility is most commonly caused by problems in the ejection of semen (1), absence or low levels of sperm, or abnormal shape (morphology) and movement (motility) of the sperm.
• In the female reproductive system, infertility may be caused by a range of abnormalities of the ovaries, uterus, fallopian tubes, and the endocrine system, among others.
• Infertility can be primary or secondary. Primary infertility is when a pregnancy has never been achieved by a person, and secondary infertility is when at least one prior pregnancy has been achieved.
• Fertility care encompasses the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility. Equal and equitable access to fertility care remains a challenge in most countries; particularly in low and middle-income countries. Fertility care is rarely prioritized in national universal health coverage benefit packages.

Nandita Thatte, DrPH

Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health

World Health Organization

Geneva, Switzerland

Email: thatten@...

www.ibpnetwork.org

REGISTER HERE for the Webinar!  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8291457177034875151

@ibp_network

Best regards,

Ados V. May, MPA | IBP Network | Senior Technical Advisor

1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 550 | Washington, DC 20004 |

www.ibpnetwork.org o: +1 202 808 3846 | m: +1 202 999 8816 |

email: ados.may@... | Skype: adosmay

Dear Colleagues,

The High Impact Practices in Family Planning (HIP) Partnership is accepting concept notes for new briefs and strategic planning guides. The deadline for submission is October 23. Concept notes received as of this date will be reviewed at the December meeting of the HIP Technical Advisory Group (TAG). Concept notes should be no longer than one page. For more information on the criteria for submission, please see Submit New Concepts. Please email your submission to hips4FP@.... Please note that due to the submission volume we cannot provide feedback to all the submissions received.  Only those with concept notes approved by the TAG will be contacted to discuss next steps.  Thank you.

Best,

Laura Raney on behalf of the HIP co-sponsors: FP2020, IPPF, UNFPA, USAID and WHO.

Laura Raney, MA

Pronouns: she/her

Senior Advisor, High Impact Practices, FP2020

United Nations Foundation

1750 Pennsylvania Avenue

Suite 300

Washington, DC 20006

Skype: raneylaura1
familyplanning2020.org

@FP2020Global

fphighimpactpractices.org

Dear Colleagues,

Please find the 2^nd issue of the quarterly HIP Newsletter. Happy World Contraception Day! To receive future issues, feel free to sign up.

Best,

Laura

Laura Raney, MA

Pronouns: she/her

Senior Advisor, High Impact Practices, FP2020

United Nations Foundation

1750 Pennsylvania Avenue

Suite 300

Washington, DC 20006

Skype: raneylaura1
familyplanning2020.org

@FP2020Global

fphighimpactpractices.org

Dear IBP Colleagues,

Today is World Contraception Day! Please see the message below from WHO and our Contraception related Resources. We hope you will join @HRPresearch on Twitter today in helping to spread the word!

Dear IBP Colleagues,

Please join us on Tuesday October 6th, 2020 from 8:00 -09:00 (EST)/14:00 – 15:00 (CEST) for a webinar discussion titled: WHO antenatal care recommendations for a positive pregnancy experience – Nutritional interventions update: Multiple micronutrient & Vitamin D supplements during pregnancy.  This webinar will focus on the newly updated antenatal care nutrition recommendations on multiple micronutrient and Vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy, produced in collaboration by the WHO Departments of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SHR), Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS), and Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing (MCA). This webinar is in partnership with UNICEF.

Webinar Objectives:

•             Learn about the newly updated recommendations on multiple micronutrient & Vitamin D supplements during pregnancy

•             Offer an overview of WHO ANC guideline and insight into the “Living Guideline” approach for updating maternal and perinatal health recommendations 

•             Discuss next steps and incorporation into decision-making processes

This webinar hosted in partnership with WHO, IBP Network and UNICEF. 

REGISTER HERE

Visit our websites:

www.who.int/reproductivehealth

www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent

www.who.int/nmh/about/nhd/en/

Twitter:  @IBP_network

                @HRPresearch

The Inter-Agency Working Group for Reproductive Health in Crises (IAWG) and the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC) invite you join us for a webinar:

From Recommendations to Action: Building Resilient Supply Chains in the Humanitarian-Development Nexus

October 14, 2020

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Eastern

To register, please email: iawg.communications@...

Women, girls, and other marginalized groups need lifesaving sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, whether they live in stable or crisis-affected settings. Humanitarian crises disrupt SRH supply chains, impeding the delivery of lifesaving SRH services and derailing investments in national SRH supply chains. The COVID-19 pandemic underscores that all countries are vulnerable to emergencies. We must therefore build resilient SRH supply chains that can withstand, adapt to and recover from shocks like humanitarian crises to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health supplies in all contexts.

Co-hosted by the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises and the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, this panel will launch a joint advocacy brief developed by these coalitions containing recommendations for governments, donors, and implementing agencies from development and humanitarian settings to improve access to universal health care by focusing on supply chain strengthening at the points where humanitarian and development work converge. It will also present several examples of SRH supply chain interventions in the humanitarian-development nexus at global, regional and national scales that exemplify some of the recommendations made in the advocacy brief.

Speakers:

• Sarah Rich, Women’s Refugee Commission: Building resilient supply chains for SRH in the humanitarian-development nexus: Recommendations to improve supply chain preparedness and recovery
• Branwen Millar, UNFPA Asia Pacific Regional Office: Strengthening preparedness for better humanitarian response: UNFPA and DFAT’s Asia-Pacific Regional Humanitarian Response Initiative
• Niklas Jaeschke, HELP Logistics: Pre-positioning life-saving SRH & GBV supplies in the Arab States Region
• Frank Roijmans, i+solutions: Revitalizing supply chains and logistics for SRH and SGBV commodities up to the last mile in Central Africa

To RSVP, email: iawg.communications@...

Greetings IBP Colleagues,

The DO’s and DON’Ts for Engaging Men & Boys, developed by the USAID Interagency Gender Working Group’s Male Engagement Task Force, is a two-page guide that brings together recent best practices and lessons learned on how to meaningfully engage men and boys as consumers of health services, supportive partners, and agents of change. It is meant to inform decision-making about programming, policy, media coverage, research, and funding priorities. The intended audiences for this resource include donors, implementing partners, and researchers.

Breakthrough ACTION, led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, recently translated it into French, Portuguese, and Spanish. To access the original English guide and its translations, visit the Resources page on the Interagency Gender Working Group website. We encourage you to share this resource with colleagues and partners working to increase or improve efforts to engage men and boys around the globe.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Kindly,

Danette

-- 

Danette Wilkins, MPH

(she/her and they/them – What is this?)

Program Officer II, Family Planning and Reproductive Health

Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

email: danette.wilkins@...  

www.breakthroughactionandresearch.org

*Apologies for cross-posting*

I am pleased to share news announced this week: EngenderHealth will lead a partnership, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), to increase the capacity of host country institutions and local organizations to strengthen surgical safety within maternal health and family planning programs by promoting evidence-based approaches and testing new innovations. USAID will award up to $40 million to the global safe surgery project, part of the MOMENTUM suite of USAID projects, to promote awareness of, and equitable access to, high-quality care for voluntary, consented safe surgeries for Caesarean delivery, fistula repair, childbirth-related hysterectomy, long-acting reversible contraception, and permanent family planning methods. Three core partners will join EngenderHealth to implement the project: IntraHealth International, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs. The partnership will also collaborate with resource partners, including the International Confederation of Midwives, Viamo, and regional professional associations of surgeons and other clinicians.

Below please find links to the official announcements, as well as select social media content:

Announcements

·         USAID 

·         EngenderHealth 

Select Social Media Posts 

·         USAID tweet 

·         EngenderHealth tweet   

·         LinkedIn

·         USAID Facebook post 

·         EngenderHealth Facebook post  

·         Instagram 

Warm regards,

Caleb

Caleb Tiller
Vice President, Communications & Marketing

+1 202 902 2039 | ctiller@...

EngenderHealth
505 9th Street, NW

Suite 601

Washington, DC 20004 USA

Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter

Dear Colleagues,

The IBP network is housed at WHO and works through its many partner organizations to support the dissemination and use of evidence-based guidelines and tools in family planning and reproductive health. We would like to find out more about two groups of tools that IBP promotes: The WHO Guidelines on Family Planning (FP) and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and the High Impact Practices in Family Planning (HIPs). Your response will help us understand how these products are used to improve FP/SRH programs and provide input on how we can better support dissemination efforts.

We appreciate how precious your time is, which is why we’ve included only key questions. The estimated time of completion is 15-20 minutes. Please be assured that your responses will remain completely anonymous.

Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IBP_ENGLISH

Thank you on behalf of the IBP Network Secretariat.

Nandita Thatte

Ados May

Carolin Ekman

En français:

Cher collègues,

Le réseau IBP est hébergé à l'OMS et travaille par l'intermédiaire de ses nombreuses organisations partenaires pour soutenir la diffusion et l'utilisation de directives et d'outils fondés sur des preuves en matière de planification familiale et de santé reproductive. Nous aimerions en savoir plus sur deux groupes d'outils que l'IBP promeut : les Directives de l'OMS sur la planification familiale (PF) et la santé et les droits sexuels et reproductifs (SDSR) à haut impact (PHI) dans la planification familiale. Votre réponse nous aidera à comprendre comment ces produits sont utilisés pour améliorer les programmes de PF / SSR et nous fournira des données sur la façon dont nous pouvons mieux soutenir les efforts de diffusion.

Nous apprécions à quel point votre temps est précieux, c'est pourquoi nous n'avons inclus que les questions clés. Le temps estimé de traitement est de 15-20 minutes. Soyez assuré que vos réponses resteront totalement anonymes.

Enquête : https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IBP_FRENCH

Merci au nom du Secrétariat du réseau IBP

Nandita Thatte

Ados May

Carolin Ekman

En español

Queridos colegas,

La red IBP con sede en la OMS, trabaja a través de sus muchas organizaciones asociadas para apoyar la difusión y el uso de pautas y herramientas con base en evidencia en planificación familiar y salud reproductiva. Nos gustaría saber más sobre dos grupos de herramientas que la Red IBP promueve: las Directrices de la OMS en Planificación Familiar (PF) y Salud Sexual, Reproductiva y Derechos (SSRD) y las Prácticas de Alto Impacto en Planificación Familiar (PAIs).

Apreciamos lo valioso que es su tiempo, por lo que solo incluimos preguntas clave y el tiempo estimado de diligenciar la encuesta es de 15 a 20 minutos. Tenga la seguridad de que sus respuestas permanecerán completamente anónimas.

Encuesta: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IBP_Spanish

Gracias en nombre de la Secretaría de la Red IBP

Nandita Thatte

Ados May

Carolin Ekman