Pathway from innovation to scale: Early lessons from RISE
In this poster presentation, shared at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in 2021, we share lessons from the Roadmap for Integrating Smart Start in Ethiopia (RISE) project, a five-year program to scale Smart Start within the Ethiopian health system. We evaluated RISE’s scale-up process in 2022 to assess progress to-date and key lessons […]
Husband support can break negative norms surrounding contraceptive use for married adolescents in rural Ethiopia
In this presentation, shared at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in 2021, we share experience from designing and testing an intervention to engage male partners of married adolescents in Ethiopia to build an improved enabling environment for girls’ contraceptive use.
Expanding self-care interventions in Ethiopia: Client and provider experiences with piloting DMPA-SC self-injection
In this poster presentation, shared at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in 2021 we share results of a pilot study to explore the feasibility of DMPA-SC self-injection in the context of Ethiopia.
Conceptualizing “empowerment” for adolescent girls and young women within the context of sexual and reproductive health: perspectives from a qualitative study in Nigeria and Tanzania
In this poster presentation, shared at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in 2021, we share outcomes from a qualitative study conducted in two of A360’s geographies to conceptualize a user-led definition of empowerment.
Digitization: Gateway to accessing real-time adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) data for decision-making in Nigeria and Tanzania
This poster presentation, shared at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in 2021 describes the utility of using DHIS2 to access real-time ASRH data across healthcare facilities in Nigeria and Tanzania.
Improving access to adolescent sexual and reproductive health services through community involvement in southern Nigeria
In this poster presentation, shared at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in 2021, we describe lessons learnt while building a sustainable mobilization model that adapted an existing donor-funded model – 9ja Girls – for government-led implementation in four states in southern Nigeria.
Big Sista Chatbot: Integrating menstrual health and family planning for AGYW
In this poster presentation, shared at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in 2021, we share our experience integrating menstrual health into a digital tool in Nigeria. The Big Sista Chatbot is a self-navigated information tree, accessed via Facebook Messenger that provides menstrual health and contraceptive information as part of the broader 9ja Girls’ […]
Thinking beyond the price tab: Opportunities and pitfalls in employing cost-effectiveness analysis for an aspirational ASRH program in three African countries
In this poster presentation, shared at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in 2021, we describe how A360 routinized costing analysis within its own implementation and present the potential pitfalls of focusing on cost-effectiveness in AYSRH programs.