The William H. Gates Sr. Institute (WHGI) and The Challenge Initiative (TCI) hosted a webinar on Thursday, 11 July 2024, at 8:00 am EDT to discuss key findings from TCI's recently published supplement in the peer-reviewed journal, Global Health: Science and Practice (GHSP).
Since launching in 2016, TCI has supported 201 local governments across 13 countries and contributed to 4.5 million additional family planning clients.
The new supplement in GHSP features nine articles that share TCI’s learnings from supporting local urban governments in scaling up high-impact family planning and adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (AYSRH) practices and other interventions. It offers valuable insights into the implementation and sustainability of high-impact practices across diverse contexts, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
This webinar focused on three key articles from the supplement focused on the following topics:
- How the integration of AYSRH into existing family planning programs in Uganda led to better results for not only adolescents and youth, but older women too.
- How family planning programs involving community health workers improve access for young first-time parents in India.
- How a co-financing model developed by TCI supports states in Nigeria in their family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) budget allocations and expenditures
You can watch the full event recording now (in English and French), and read the full GHSP supplement here.
Featured Speakers
Kojo Lokko
Executive Director
The Challenge Initiative
Josephine Nabukeera
Country Lead, Uganda
The Challenge Initiative
Emily Das
Senior Technical Lead - Research, India
The Challenge Initiative
Victor Igharo
Regional Hub Manager, Pakistan & Nigeria
The Challenge Initiative
Ian Salas
Senior Technical Advisor
The Challenge Initiative
Read TCI's Full Supplement in Global Health: Science and Practice
Read the supplement in full, or view any of the nine articles within it below!
- The Challenge Initiative: Lessons on Rapid Scale-Up of Family Planning and Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
- A Platform for Sustainable Scale: The Challenge Initiative’s Innovative Approach to Scaling Proven Interventions
- What Underlies State Government Performance in Scaling Family Planning Programming? A Study of The Challenge Initiative State Partnerships in Nigeria
- Innovations in Public Financing for Family Planning at Subnational Levels: Sustainable Cofinancing Strategies for Family Planning With Nigerian States
- Increasing Contraceptive Use Through Free Family Planning Special Days in Poor Urban Areas in Francophone West Africa
- Boosting Contraceptive Uptake in Urban Uganda: Older Women Benefit When Layering Adolescent and Youth Interventions Onto Existing Family Planning Programming
- Improving the Quality of Adolescent and Youth-Friendly Health Services Through Integrated Supportive Supervision in Four Nigerian States
- Implementing Quality Improvement Initiatives to Improve the Use of Adolescent- and Youth-Friendly Health Services in Zou, Benin
- Improving Contraceptive Service Quality and Accessibility for Adolescents and Youth Through Proprietary Patent Medicine Vendors in Four Nigerian States
- Engaging Community Health Workers to Enhance Modern Contraceptive Uptake Among Young First-Time Parents in Five Cities of Uttar Pradesh
