"Family Planning”: An Online Evidence-based Course

Module 1

Family Planning Frameworks and Indicators, Reproductive Rights, and Gender

June 14, 2021 - Geneva

Tasks

A. Required learning

Session 1

• Go over the presentation titled “Family Planning through the lens of global strategies, measurement and human rights - Introduction to the Module”.
• Read the WHO factsheet on contraception.
• Watch the video on WHO and the development of contraceptive methods.
• Watch the video on Human rights and contraception.

Session 2

• Go over the presentation titled “Family Planning Global Strategies, Frameworks and Initiatives”.
• Read the WHO Fact Sheet on Universal health coverage (UHC).
• Watch the video on Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 Highlights.

Session 3

• Go over the presentation titled “Family Planning Indicators”.
• Read the Family Planning and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Data Booklet
• Watch the video FP2030 Data Webinar: Advancing the Family Planning Measurement Agenda from 11.30 minutes to 30.20 minutes.

Session 4

• Go over the presentation titled “Family Planning Impact”.
• Read the WHO evidence brief on Accelerating uptake of voluntary, rights-based family planning in developing countries.
• Watch the video on Global population projects by 2050: The World Population in 2050.

Session 5

• Go over the presentation titled “Contraception and human rights: Rights based quality of care and monitoring in contraceptive programmes”.
• Read the WHO facts sheet on Human rights and health.

B. Assignment

• Complete and submit your answers to the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for the module. You will receive the link to the MCQs by email.

Additional learning resources

• Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services. Guidance and recommendations. World Health Organization; 2014.
• Ensuring human rights within contraceptive service delivery. Implementation guide. UNFPA and World Health Organization; 2015.
• Ensuring human rights within contraceptive programmes. A human rights analysis of existing quantitative indicators. World Health Organization; 2014.
• Quality of care in contraceptive information and services, based on human rights standards: a checklist for health care providers. World Health Organization; 2017.

Reference documents

• Handout 1. World Health Organization. Reproductive health strategy to accelerate progress towards the attainment of international development goals and targets. WHO; 2004.
• Handout 2. Every Woman Every Child. The global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (2016-2030). Every Woman Every Child; 2015.
• Handout 3. Declaration of Astana. Global Conference on Primary Health Care, Astana, Kazakhstan, 25 and 26 October 2018. World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); 2018.
• Handout 4. Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage. “Universal Health Coverage: Moving Together to Build a Healthier World”. Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 October 2019.
• Handout 5. Programme of Action International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5 to 15 September 1994. United Nations Population Fund; 2004.