Ensuring the quality of family planning services is an essential component of effective service delivery. Increased attention to quality assurance services has heightened demand for innovative, low-cost methods to evaluate quality and provide feedback to both facilities and providers. Mobile technology, such as the use of text messaging on mobile phones, is increasingly being used in this way to improve the quality of health care services in settings around the world.

The almost 50 million young people aged 10–24 in Nigeria face many challenges to their sexual and reproductive health (SRH).

View a 90-minute webinar hosted by WHO/IBP, UNFPA, USAID, and the IBP HIPs Task Team on High-Impact Practices, effective service delivery or systems interventions that when scaled up and institutionalized, can strengthen a comprehensive family planning strategy.

This detailed indicator report provides comprehensive results from the first round of data collection in Ghana.

This insights paper analyses qualitative research findings based on in-depth interviews with six social sector organizations who have established successful partnerships with operators.

In Kenya, mobile technology usage is quickly becoming more popular. While these solutions increase access to services, many rural health facilities lack ability to provide adequate service delivery.

Pathfinder International is exploiting mobile technology to address youth sexual and reproductive health in Mozambique and Ethiopia.

Pathfinder International is exploiting mobile technology to address youth sexual and reproductive health in Mozambique and Ethiopia.

During the 5-year USAID-funded PROGRESS project, FHI 360 and its partners made an impact in meeting the family planning needs of underserved populations. The PROGRESS project conducted 42 research and evaluation studies, contributed to over 47 major changes in policy and program, built capacity among 13 partners in seven countries, and supported over 200 publications.

mHealth (mobile health) is an emerging field that uses mobile and wireless technologies to support the achievement of health objectives (WHO 2011). mHealth approaches may hold the potential to strengthen family planning programming, including reaching underserved populations and addressing critical health-systems issues in areas such as human resources, health management information systems, and financing.