Office Objectives
- Strengthen capacity of USAID's PIHI (high impact intervention) NGOs to implement a high quality community-based package of health services, including family planning
- Facilitate shared learning and build awareness of best practices in PIHI
- Work with partners and the MOH to introduce Sayana Press (innovative contraceptive injectable) to community programs in Benin
- Finalize community based family planning (CBFP) /community based access to injectables pilot evaluation and disseminate results
- Work with MOH to engage stakeholders in CBFP policy change
Primary Activities
APC / Benin provides technical assistance to USAID / Benin and technical support to the Ministry of Health to implement high-impact interventions at the community level. This technical assistance includes capacity building of local NGOs in monitoring and evaluation, as well as supervising, documenting, and reporting on community activities. APC is leading the national rollout of the innovative contraceptive injectable Sayana Press, starting in USAID-funded health zones.
Health Areas
- Community Health
- Family Planning
- Urban Health
- Integrated Management of Childhood Illness at Community level (malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia)
- Water, Hygiene and Sanitation
Watch New Videos - October 2018
While Benin has made some progress in infant and neonatal mortality in recent years, the maternal mortality rate remains high at an estimated 405 deaths per 100,000 live births, almost double the global average. Since 2013, the USAID-funded Advancing Partners & Communities Project (APC) has been working with local NGOs in Benin to implement a community-based package of health care services to address infant, maternal, and neonatal mortality in the country. The package includes family planning interventions, which enable women and families to make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health. This video shows how APC and Ministry of Health are working to bring healthcare to the doorstep of the communities.
- Learn more about the benefits of family planning/contraceptives.
- Watch a short training video for women learning to self-inject subcutaneous DMPA (DMPA-SC) which was featured in our video.
