APC plans to attend and present during several sessions at the 5th International Conference on Family Planning this November in Kigali, Rwanda. APC staff and representatives will join others in the family planning community to share best practices, recognize achievements, make renewed commitments to family planning, and chart a course forward. Join us as we contribute, learn, and celebrate this year’s theme, "Investing for a Lifetime of Returns."
Side Events
Closing the Gap: Addressing Family Planning at the Community Level
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 14, 2018. Breakfast will begin at 7:00 AM, and the program will be between 7:30 and 8:30 AM. Location: Lemigo Hotel (near the Convention Center) in Kigali, Rwanda
Opening speaker: Edna Adan, Former First Lady/Foreign Minister of Somaliland Moderator: Martyn Smith, Managing Director at FP2020, UN Foundation Panelists: Peter Kaddu, Living Goods; Yvette Ribaira, JSI/APC; TBD, Community Health Worker Closing speaker: TBD
Integrating maternal health services and family planning into community health programs is imperative to achieve the World Health Organization’s main goal of Universal Health Coverage. Through this co-hosted event, we will hold a panel discussion and Q&A focused on the increasing access to family planning by strengthening community health systems. Panelists will share their diverse examples of their organizations’ successful strategies for closing the gap for family planning.
People and Our Planet: Harnessing Innovative Partnerships Across Generations (PRB, PSN, JSI, JHUCCP)
Date & Time: November 14th - 18:30-20:00 Location: KCC MH3 Registration: Public
This event will raise awareness of how Population, Environment and Development (PED) can contribute to attaining the SDGs, as well as enhance equity for last mile communities, in alignment with FP2020 goals. The event will inform ICFP attendees about the value of including family planning and reproductive health in other development sectors in holistic ways.
Primary & Partner(s) Organizations: Population Reference Bureau with the Population and Sustainability Network, John Snow Inc., Knowledge for Health (K4Health), and Population Council.
Véronique Honfo, a beneficiary on Sayana Press, at the Calavi Community Health Center just outside Cotonou, Benin on June 25, 2018. (Photo by Joshua Yospyn/JSI)
Oral Presentations
Introducing and scaling up a quality improvement collaborative for community-based family planning: a process evaluation of a health system-wide improvement network in Uganda Leigh Wynne, Fred Miburu
Poster Presentations
Which family planning methods can community health workers provide? Policy data from 25 countries Kristen Devlin, Tanvi Pandit-Rajani, Kim Farnham Egan Poster Session 7: Thursday, November 15, 8:00-11:00 Location: Auditorium Terrace
The next frontier for community-based family planning: Drug shops provision of injectable contraception Leigh Wynne, Fred Miburu Poster Session 2: Tuesday, November 13, 11:30-14:30 Location: Auditorium Terrace
(WellShare) Results from capacity building of health workers to offer adolescent-friendly family planning services among youth ages 10-24 in Uganda Leigh Wynne, Laura Wando Poster Session 4: Wednesday, November 14, 8:00-11:00 Location: Auditorium Terrace
From non to oui: how advocacy accelerated introduction of community-based family planning services in Benin Tishina Okegbe, Jean Affo, Leah Elliot Poster Session 2: Tuesday, November 13, 11:30-14:30 Location: Auditorium Terrace
Introduction du DMPA-SC Sayana Press par l'intermédiaire des agents de santé communautaires au Bénin Jean Affo, Tishina Okegbe, Florence Djihoun, Gaston Ahounou Poster Session 2: Tuesday, November 13, 11:30-14:30 Location: Auditorium Terrace
A brochure for Sayana Press at the Department of Maternal and Child Health on the grounds of the Ministry of Health in Cotonou, Benin, on June 25, 2018. (Photo by Joshua Yospyn/JSI)
Flash Presentations
Emanzi – a proven affective male engagement intervention designed for scale Leigh Wynne, Fred Miburu Flash Speed Round 2.4.7 (Male Involvement in FP) Wednesday, November 14, 16:20-17:40 Location: Atrium 1
(WellShare) Expanding community-based family planning programs to include emergency contraception Leigh Wynne, Laura Wando, Fred Miburu Flash Speed Round 1.1.15 (Task Sharing and Task Shifting to Expand Access to FP) Tuesday, November 13, 10:25-11:45 Location: MH3
Assessment of a pilot project to introduce community-based provision of injectables in Benin Tishina Okegbe, Faustin Onikpo, Karen Katz, Jean Affo, Odilon Hounyo Flash Speed Round 2.4.12 (Community-based Approaches) Wednesday, November 14, 16:20-17:40 Location: MH3
Mashoudou Mari, 35, sits with his wife Komkpa Boni, who is 25 and uses a contraceptive implant called Jadelle, and their youngest of three children, who are 2-, 4-, and 8-years-old, in the village of Yapagbe near Tchaourou, a city 385 kilometers north of Cotonou, Benin on June 28, 2018. (Photo by Joshua Yospyn/JSI)
Panel Participation
Se réengager dans la santé population environnement à Madagascar, quelles contributions de la planification familiale. (French speaking) Yvette Ribaira, Maafaka Ravelona Oral Tuesday, November 13, 14:35-15:55 Location: Club 3
Research to Practice: A one-year randomized controlled trial comparing continuation rates of self-administered versus provider-administered DMPA-SC in Malawi Holly Burke Preformed Panel 3.1.6 (Self-Injection of DMPA) Thursday, November 15, 10:25-11:45 Location: MH2
APC plans to attend and present during several sessions at the 5th International Conference on Family Planning this November in Kigali, Rwanda. APC staff and representatives will join others in the family planning community to share best practices, recognize achievements, make renewed commitments to family planning, and chart a course forward. Join us as we contribute, learn, and celebrate this year’s theme, "Investing for a Lifetime of Returns."
Side Events
Closing the Gap: Addressing Family Planning at the Community Level
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 14, 2018. Breakfast will begin at 7:00 AM, and the program will be between 7:30 and 8:30 AM.
Location: Lemigo Hotel (near the Convention Center) in Kigali, Rwanda
Opening speaker: Edna Adan, Former First Lady/Foreign Minister of Somaliland
Moderator: Martyn Smith, Managing Director at FP2020, UN Foundation
Panelists: Peter Kaddu, Living Goods; Yvette Ribaira, JSI/APC; TBD, Community Health Worker
Closing speaker: TBD
Integrating maternal health services and family planning into community health programs is imperative to achieve the World Health Organization’s main goal of Universal Health Coverage. Through this co-hosted event, we will hold a panel discussion and Q&A focused on the increasing access to family planning by strengthening community health systems. Panelists will share their diverse examples of their organizations’ successful strategies for closing the gap for family planning.
People and Our Planet: Harnessing Innovative Partnerships Across Generations (PRB, PSN, JSI, JHUCCP)
Date & Time: November 14th - 18:30-20:00
Location: KCC MH3
Registration: Public
This event will raise awareness of how Population, Environment and Development (PED) can contribute to attaining the SDGs, as well as enhance equity for last mile communities, in alignment with FP2020 goals. The event will inform ICFP attendees about the value of including family planning and reproductive health in other development sectors in holistic ways.
Primary & Partner(s) Organizations: Population Reference Bureau with the Population and Sustainability Network, John Snow Inc., Knowledge for Health (K4Health), and Population Council.
Véronique Honfo, a beneficiary on Sayana Press, at the Calavi Community Health Center just outside Cotonou, Benin on June 25, 2018. (Photo by Joshua Yospyn/JSI)
Oral Presentations
Introducing and scaling up a quality improvement collaborative for community-based family planning: a process evaluation of a health system-wide improvement network in Uganda
Leigh Wynne, Fred Miburu
Poster Presentations
Which family planning methods can community health workers provide? Policy data from 25 countries
Kristen Devlin, Tanvi Pandit-Rajani, Kim Farnham Egan
Poster Session 7: Thursday, November 15, 8:00-11:00
Location: Auditorium Terrace
The next frontier for community-based family planning: Drug shops provision of injectable contraception
Leigh Wynne, Fred Miburu
Poster Session 2: Tuesday, November 13, 11:30-14:30
Location: Auditorium Terrace
(WellShare) Results from capacity building of health workers to offer adolescent-friendly family planning services among youth ages 10-24 in Uganda
Leigh Wynne, Laura Wando
Poster Session 4: Wednesday, November 14, 8:00-11:00
Location: Auditorium Terrace
From non to oui: how advocacy accelerated introduction of community-based family planning services in Benin
Tishina Okegbe, Jean Affo, Leah Elliot
Poster Session 2: Tuesday, November 13, 11:30-14:30
Location: Auditorium Terrace
Introduction du DMPA-SC Sayana Press par l'intermédiaire des agents de santé communautaires au Bénin
Jean Affo, Tishina Okegbe, Florence Djihoun, Gaston Ahounou
Poster Session 2: Tuesday, November 13, 11:30-14:30
Location: Auditorium Terrace
A brochure for Sayana Press at the Department of Maternal and Child Health on the grounds of the Ministry of Health in Cotonou, Benin, on June 25, 2018. (Photo by Joshua Yospyn/JSI)
Flash Presentations
Emanzi – a proven affective male engagement intervention designed for scale
Leigh Wynne, Fred Miburu
Flash Speed Round 2.4.7 (Male Involvement in FP)
Wednesday, November 14, 16:20-17:40
Location: Atrium 1
(WellShare) Expanding community-based family planning programs to include emergency contraception
Leigh Wynne, Laura Wando, Fred Miburu
Flash Speed Round 1.1.15 (Task Sharing and Task Shifting to Expand Access to FP)
Tuesday, November 13, 10:25-11:45
Location: MH3
Assessment of a pilot project to introduce community-based provision of injectables in Benin
Tishina Okegbe, Faustin Onikpo, Karen Katz, Jean Affo, Odilon Hounyo
Flash Speed Round 2.4.12 (Community-based Approaches)
Wednesday, November 14, 16:20-17:40
Location: MH3
Mashoudou Mari, 35, sits with his wife Komkpa Boni, who is 25 and uses a contraceptive implant called Jadelle, and their youngest of three children, who are 2-, 4-, and 8-years-old, in the village of Yapagbe near Tchaourou, a city 385 kilometers north of Cotonou, Benin on June 28, 2018. (Photo by Joshua Yospyn/JSI)
Panel Participation
Se réengager dans la santé population environnement à Madagascar, quelles contributions de la planification familiale. (French speaking)
Yvette Ribaira, Maafaka Ravelona
Oral
Tuesday, November 13, 14:35-15:55
Location: Club 3
Research to Practice: A one-year randomized controlled trial comparing continuation rates of self-administered versus provider-administered DMPA-SC in Malawi
Holly Burke
Preformed Panel 3.1.6 (Self-Injection of DMPA)
Thursday, November 15, 10:25-11:45
Location: MH2