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HP+ ended September 27, 2022

Better Policy for Better Health

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Featured Activity

Women's Leadership for Family Planning

HP+ supports a global effort to strengthen the capacity of women leaders to effectively advocate for family planning and reproductive health investments and programs as well as foster joint accountability for reaching national and global commitments. Investing in women’s leadership can yield far-reaching dividends, for women themselves, the institutions they represent, their communities, and society. However, for women to affect this kind of cascading change, they need to be directly involved in making policy decisions and challenge the systemic barriers that often prevent them from fully participating. Since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, USAID’s policy projects have been pioneers in strengthening women’s capacity to engage effectively in advocacy and policy dialogue. HP+ is building on these past investments to Empower Women Leaders for Country-Led Development to support new cadres of women leaders and support countries to meet their FP2020 commitments.

Publications

Leading Change: Women’s Leadership for Achieving Sindh’s Family Planning 2020 Commitments
Leading Change: Women’s Leadership for Achieving Sindh’s Family Planning 2020 Commitments
Leading Change: Women’s Leadership Initiative in Sindh
Leading Change: Women’s Leadership Initiative in Sindh
HP+ Achievements in Pakistan
HP+ Achievements in Pakistan

What We Do

HP+ is helping countries make progress toward their FP2020 commitments and other development goals by investing in women leaders. These leaders engage in the kind of ongoing advocacy and multi-level action that is needed to monitor progress toward FP2020 and other development goals and to keep pressure on decision-makers to ensure that they do not waiver on their commitments in the face of competing demands for budget, resources, and infrastructure. Our Women's Leadership and Accountability initiative is developing and piloting innovative approaches for women leaders who represent government, civil society, and elected bodies to promote joint accountability for FP2020 commitments in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria,  Pakistan, and Uganda. This evidence-based approach strengthens local capacity, fosters dialogue, and uncovers gaps and opportunities to rally country stakeholders to overcome accountability hurdles that limit performance and a country's path to meeting FP2020 commitments. Through this initiative and our country programs, HP+ is:

  • Supporting new cadres of women leaders to develop leadership, advocacy, and accountability skills and to engage effectively in policy dialogue and coordinated advocacy for executing FP2020 costed implementation plans
  • Integrating women's leadership programs within comprehensive, country-level domestic resource mobilization activities for family planning
  • Developing new curricula and mentoring tools for skills development and ongoing support for advocacy and accountability activities
  • Promoting learning and mentoring among and between women leaders in the countries where we work
  • Expanding its women's leadership approach to more regions and technical areas, including health, education, and nutrition

News

Boosting Family Planning Access in Pakistan
Boosting Family Planning Access in Pakistan
HP+ Initiates Pakistan Women's Leadership Program
HP+ Initiates Pakistan Women's Leadership Program
HP+ Celebrates Achievements in Pakistan as Program Comes to a Close
HP+ Celebrates Achievements in Pakistan as Program Comes to a Close
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Project Impacts

Pakistan’s Women Leaders Advocate for Youth Family Planning Services

June 2017 — 

Participants in the USAID-funded Health Policy Plus (HP+) project’s Women's Leadership initiative in Pakistan have had tremendous success, directly contributing to policy and other efforts aimed at expanding outreach and access to family planning services for youth. Collectively, the women successfully advocated for the inclusion of youth-specific indicators to monitor the country's costed implementation plan and developed youth-specific guidelines for Pakistan's Manual of Standards for Family Planning Services. They provided recommendations to Sindh province's FP2020 working group and to the government—the latter of which ensured the funding and operationalizing of critical youth-friendly activities. 

These wins come on the heels of three HP+ Women's Leadership for Family Planning workshops focused on increasing the women's confidence, capacity, and connections to achieve health policy and governance outcomes. HP+ initiated the Women's Leadership program in Pakistan late last year. The last of the three workshops was held in April. 

Now, HP+ is continuing to support the women in their advocacy efforts and tracking their successes in our unfolding story on their progress. 

  • About
    • Project Overview
    • Partners
    • Leadership
    • Contact
    • Work with Us
    • Home
  • Our Work
    • Family Planning
    • HIV
    • COVID-19 Response
    • Health Financing
    • Maternal Health
    • Modeling
    • Capacity Development
    • Gender
    • Health Equity
  • Countries
    • Africa
    • Asia
    • Latin America & the Caribbean
  • Resources
    • Publications
    • Models
    • News
    • Viewpoints
    • Conferences & Events
    • Webinars
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CONTACT US

Health Policy Plus
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Washington, DC 20004
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Health Policy Plus (HP+) is a seven-year cooperative agreement funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development under Agreement No. AID-OAA-A-15-00051, beginning August 28, 2015. HP+ is implemented by Palladium, in collaboration with Avenir Health, Futures Group Global Outreach, Plan International USA, Population Reference Bureau, RTI International, ThinkWell, and the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood.

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