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Title: Evaluation of Two Programs Supporting Global Family Planning Data Needs
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: Family planning helps countries achieve manageable levels of population growth through voluntary choices about the number and timing of pregnancies, making family planning programs an important contributor to economic development. Regulating fertility through safe and effective contraception also has numerous health benefits for both the mother and infant (Seltzer, 2002). Family planning programs must both deliver commodities and services and collect data to track progress toward national goals. In 2012, countries agreed on an ambitious global goal of achieving, by 2020, 120 million new users of modern contraception in 69 of the world’s poorest countries. This Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) goal, and the initial commitment by at least two dozen of those countries, triggered support by major donors for various programs to help countries advance toward the FP2020 goal. Among such efforts, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched two key programs in early 2013 to help countries collect, analyze, and use data to monitor progress toward the FP2020 goal. The Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020) program, implemented by Johns Hopkins University’s Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, was to focus on supporting data collection in nine countries through annual, rapid-turnaround, national surveys typically led by university-based experts, using mobile phone technology and local “resident enumerators.” The Track20 program, implemented by Avenir Health, was to work with governments in a larger number of countries to gather data from various sources, analyze and model the data to derive estimates for core family planning indicators, facilitate consensus around data to be reported globally, and promulgate the effective use of these data. In early 2017, roughly the midpoint between the launch of these programs and the 2020 target date, the Gates Foundation sought to take stock of the progress of PMA2020 and Track20 in order to inform its future directions. It contracted with the RAND Corporation to undertake an objective external evaluation of the two programs. The study team conducted the evaluation from April through September 2017. The findings should be of interest to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the two programs, the governments of countries participating in one or both programs, associated donors and implementing partners, and the larger global family planning and development communities.
Url: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR2100/RR2112/RAND_RR2112.pdf
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Authors: Moore, Melinda; Faherty, Laura, J; Fischer, Shira, H; Bouskill, Kathryn, E; DaVanzo, Julie; Messan Setodji, Claude; Gelfeld, Bill
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Data Collections: IPUMS Global Health - DHS
Topics: Family and Marriage, Fertility and Mortality, Reproductive and Sexual Health
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