USAID Community Capacity for Health Program (Mahefa Miaraka)

How Can Population, Health, and Environment Projects Learn from Family Planning High Impact Practices?
JSI’s Yvette Ribaira shares best practices from Madagascar in a new webinar.

On February 6th, JSI population, health, and environment (PHE) expert Dr. Yvette Ribaira shared insights from her experience in Madagascar during a webinar examining the link between PHE programs and high-impact practices (HIPs) drawn from family planning activities.

Watch the webinar here: https://bit.ly/2SKbuvG

Dr. Ribaira, a medical doctor, has spent her career in public health strengthening the Madagascar’s health system, with a specific focus on community health in the last decade. She currently leads the JSI’s USAID Community Capacity for Health Program in Madagascar, locally known as Mahefa Miaraka, which implements the Population Health and Environment (PHE) Activity, funded by Advancing Partners and Communities.

The webinar was hosted by the PACE (https://thepaceproject.org/) (Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health) project and included presenters from the Population Reference Bureau and USAID.

Read more about JSI’s work on population, health, and environment, as well as family planning, in Madagascar and around the world at www.jsi.com

1. USAID Community Capacity for Health
Program (MahefaMiaraka)
Successfully Integrating
High-Impact Family
Planning Practices into
Population, Health, and
Environment Projects
Presented by
Yvette Ribaira, MD, MPH
binar, February 6, 2019

2. Outline
•Background
•Program Approach
•Key Findings
•Recommendations.

3. Background
•80% endemic species
•80% of the population isrural
•76% of the population ispoor
•2.7% population growth
•Lackof accessto FP services
Sources: DHS, 2008/09 –WB, 2017

4. Program Approach
4,885 villages and
6.1 million people

5. Program Approach(cont’d)
Community health
forms the foundation
of the health system
Community health
to improve
geographical access
to primary care
Community health to
reach UHC and
achieve SDG
Institutional
framework to
standardize health
interventions

6. Program Approach(cont’d)
Community
members
select CHVs.
Local coordination
committee (health hut
building, planning) support
CHVs.
FP Training,
skills certification,
supervision by
health facility.
Provisionof FP
counseling and service
job aids, management
and IEC tools.
1. 2. 3. 4.

7. Program Approach(cont’d)
Community-level health
promotion and sensitization
Capacity of community
stakeholders to assess community
needs, develop key messages and
advocate for improved services
Innovations to promote
adolescent and youth health

8. Key Findings
In Policy DevelopmentHIP
•NPCH updated (2017)
•FP law available (2018)
•Norms guideline
reviewed
•CHVs curricula
standardized

9. Key Findings
CHV Service
Delivery
(n = 6,093)
•92% CHVs in
environmental
areas trained in
FP service
delivery.
•54% CHVs male.
•72% coverage.
Source: MahefaMiaraka, database, oct2013 -sept2018

10. Key Findings (cont’d):
Evolution of Coverage in Local Services by CHVs
Sources: CCHP, Activity Reports 2012 –2018
New Family Planning Users
<1% 34% 62% 67% 17% 25% 34% 40% 38% 36%
299
48,704
152,821
194,954
34,722
55,355
68,992
111,700 111,700 111,700
94,097
142,502
246,619
289,923
202,632
221,866
204,467
281,818
294,124
306,430
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
% of CHV's contributionNew users at CHV New users at Health Facility

11. Key Results (cont’d):
Trend in Contraceptive Prevalence and FP Unmet Need
Sources: Penser, 2012 –USAID , OMS, 2014 –USAID, Baseline 2016
30.6%
17.3%
9%
26.9%
41.3%
46.4%
62.0%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
2012 2014 2016 2020
% with unmet need in Family PlanningContraceptive Prevalence Rate

12. Key Results (cont’d):
Unintended Pregnancy Averted and Cost Saving in
Vaccination
Source: DarrochJ. and Singh S.,Estimating Unintended Pregnancies Averted from CYP, 2011.
Year 201320142015201620172018201920202021
Unintended
pregnancy
averted
11,52019,93234,84710,71420,41948,81651,55257,88857,888
Costsaving in
vaccination of
children (USD)
171,300296,385518,175159,315303,630725,895766,575860,790860,790

13. Key Findings:
People Reached by SBCC Channels
(n = 4,987,099)
High Visibility
Events
12%
Radio
broadcast
59%
Reached by
CHVs activities
29%
Source: MahefaMiaraka, annual report, sept2018

14. •Enabling environment:
integrating the application of
FP law in the health and
environment policy.
•Service delivery:
universal health coverage in
part through task shifting to
CHVs.
•Behavior Change Communication:
targeting youth and men.
Recommendations for HIPs

15. Thankyou
for Your
Attention!
Thispresentationwasmadepossiblethanksto
thefinancialsupportoftheAmericanpeople
throughtheUnitedStatesAgencyfor
InternationalDevelopment(USAID).JSIResearch
&TrainingInstitute,Inc.isfullyresponsiblefor
thecontentofthispresentation,whichdoesnot
necessarilyreflecttheviewsofUSAIDortheUS
Government.