Last fall, a blog
post by Sharon Arscott-Mills introduced the new Family
Planning Sustainability Checklist, a tool that helps project
designers, implementers, and evaluators ensure long-term sustainability
for their community-based family planning program. Now, Adrienne Allison
describes World Vision's recent use of this tool in the field in her blog entry
titled, "How the Family Planning Sustainability Checklist Helped
Identify FP Challenges in Ethiopia".
Several points from Adrienne’s blog
are summarized here:- The Checklist was used as part of a family planning workshop with Ministry of Health and World Vision staff in rural Ethiopia.
- The Checklist guided participants to think through issues and questions they had not considered before.
- The WV team recommends the use of the community mobilization module as being particularly useful to elucidate divergent views between male and female community members.
- The availability of the checklists in two formats (1) by Health Care Providers and (2) by Program Elements was also found to be useful and provided more flexibility.
- The Checklist assisted the WV team to pinpoint needed FP activities that could be immediately integrated into existing programs.
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