Elements of Successful Family Planning Programs

Web site-Project

HIPNETJSI, Rosslyn, Virginia

April 2, 2008

FP Success: Project History

• One year Web-based activity • Developed for program managers worldwide to:– Learn about evidence-based family planning information

– Share successes and lessons learned– Network with people around the world– Solve problems, bounce ideas off each other

Ultimately, help create a better program.

Survey: Users “Pull” Information

• Collected wisdom of practiced program managers steers the project

• December 2007 survey listed 14 elements including “Integration with related health services,” “mix of service delivery points” and “up-to-date service guidelines”

•Respondents could select 3 or enter a 15th factor

•Over 445 health care professionals from 98 countries responded

Survey Says…

• 41% said well-trained, supervised and motivated staff was #1 most important element of FP success

• 30% said effective communications and outreach strategy

• Top-ranked elements were also rated the most difficult to achieve

Distribution of Survey Respondents by Region

Sub-Saharan Africa (29%)

North America (22%)

Asia and Oceania (32%)

Latin America & Caribbean (5%) Near East & North

Africa (3%)

Europe (8%)

IBP Forum, Dec. 10-21, 2007

• Catherine Richey, MPH, Senior Technical Writer at the INFO Project, facilitated the forum

• 280 health care professionals in 63 countries joined the forum

• Top countries represented included the United States (80), India (28), Kenya (12), Ghana (12), Ethiopia (11)

Two Kinds of “Social” Web Sites

Forum One’s Chris Wolz divides the “Social Web” or “Web 2.0” into 2 kinds of social sites:

1. Social Media: sites and services, allow you to:– Tag (mark, categorize, save)

interesting things on the Web for your friends: Digg, Del.ici.ous

– Create content (video, blog) to share with a community—YouTube, Blogger, WordPress

Two Kinds of “Social” Sites

2. Social Networking Sites

•Facebook.com: 64 million users added in 30 days

Social Networking Sites

• MySpace.com, 300 million users, >20 international sites (India, Brazil, etc.)

• 85% 18 yrs or older

Trend: Social networking for physicians

Since this screenshot three weeks ago, 10,000 more members joined Sermo

About Sermo, from Money Magazine

“A MySpace for physicians… Doctors vote, in a Netflix-style five-star system, on their level of interest in various medical topics… Discussion topics have titles like "Lipitor nightmares”

FP Success: Letting Program People Be Social• Designed to take advantage of new web tools available--including social networking tools.

• Not just a static site where people can go to find information

• Log on to collaborate, share ideas and interact with others.

FP Success: Next Steps

• Repurposing content: Web-to-print

• Combining members’ lessons learned and experiences with the evidence-based information and research conducted.

• Putting up synthesis on Web site and subsequently in a print Population Reports issue.

Join Today!

• Join today and invite your colleagues to the site: www.fpsuccess.org

• Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions for the site and project!