Solutions Panorama

HOW DOES IT WORK?
The Ouagadougou Partnership is based
on two principles: (1) Better coordination
between donors will enable funding to flow
to the highest-impact interventions and to
better align with country priorities (including
increasing choices available to women
and families), and (2) collaboration and
cooperation between countries at national
and regional levels will efficiently spread best
practices across the region.
The first step for all member countries
was to agree on an overall goal and to
identify how each country could financially
contribute. Next, the countries developed
costed implementation plans (CIPs) for family
planning, with specific and time-bound targets
for increasing access to a variety of modern
contraceptive methods, including long-term
options like intrauterine devices. The CIPs
also lay out precise steps to achieve those
objectives, identify specific funding needs,
and describe how each country’s plan will be
monitored with the same set of indicators.
Several countries have already begun
developing a second generation of CIPs,
with new targets for contraceptive choice.
By establishing specific targets for
contraceptive choice in the CIPs, and by tying
funding to activities that increase choice,
the Ouagadougou Partnership elevates
contraceptive choice to the top of the
government’s family planning agenda.
With the
original target
reached ahead
of schedule, The
Partnership has
set a new goal to
reach
2.2
million
additional
contraception
users by 2020.
IMPACT
At its founding in 2011, the Ouagadougou
Partnership set a goal to reach an additional
one million women, enabling them to choose a
modern form of contraception by 2015. Careful
monitoring in all nine countries by FP2020,
the partnership’s monitoring and evaluation
partner, demonstrated that an additional 1.2
million women across the nine countries were
using modern contraceptive methods in 2015.
In addition, the available mix of contraceptive
methods has also expanded. From 2014 to 2015,
336,000 unsafe abortions and 3,950 maternal
deaths were averted. The Partnership has now
set a new goal to reach 2.2 million additional
contraception users by 2020.
LEARN MORE
Modern Contraception Usage Rates in West Africa;
partenariatouaga.org
Monitoring Progress in Family Planning;
track20.org
“Addressing unmet need in West Africa,”
Marie Stopes International
About the 4th Annual Meeting of The Ouagadougou Partnership;
partenariatouaga.org
Submitted by Population Services International (PSI)
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