Inside the FP Story

In this third episode, we are going to explore quality of care in fragile contexts and what it means for family planning service delivery.

In this episode, guests will discuss social and gender norms, and cultural contexts, which are key to understanding and improving family planning programming in fragile settings.

This episode will provide background and basics on fragile settings and family planning programming within these contexts—including the concepts of fragility, health resilience, and the humanitarian-development nexus. Guests will also discuss the impacts of fragility on family planning and sexual and reproductive health.

This episode we're addressing questions about user design and behavioral economics. During our Knowledge SUCCESS storytelling presentations, we often get questions about how to best create content to apply to a range of audiences. So we've invited our Knowledge SUCCESS colleague Maryam Yusuf from Busara Center for Behavioral Economics to talk to us about this topic.

Welcome to our first question and answer episode for Inside the FP Story. While we work to launch Season 4 of the podcast in September, we are responding to some questions from our listeners.

Do you have a burning question for our team or one of our guests? Or maybe you have your own story to share about a challenge or experience working in family planning? Send these to us at [email protected] by July 6th, and your entry may be featured on the podcast.

Pendant que nous travaillons sur la saison 4 du podcast, nous essayons quelque chose de nouveau : nous vous demandons, à vous, nos auditeurs de À l'intérieur de l'histoire de la PF « Inside the FP Story », d'envoyer vos questions et commentaires, et nous les présenterons dans des épisodes de questions-réponses ! Vous avez une question brûlante à poser à notre équipe ou à l'un de nos invités ? Ou peut-être avez-vous votre propre histoire à partager sur un défi ou une expérience de travail dans le domaine de la planification familiale ? Envoyez-les à l'adresse [email protected] avant le 6 juillet, et votre contribution pourrait être diffusée dans le podcast.

This episode, we will discuss engaging men and boys in family planning and reproductive health programs. We will talk to guests from diverse settings about: what this means; strategies for putting this into practice; and recommendations for how we can work with men to support women’s reproductive autonomy.

This episode explores how gender-based violence—abbreviated as GBV—intersects with family planning and reproductive health. Our featured guests will share their experiences and offer guidance and recommendations on how we can and should address GBV in our own family planning programs.

The first episode is divided into two parts. The first part will provide background and basics on gender integration in the context of family planning. We will define some key terms and explain what is meant when we say a family planning program is “gender transformative.” Then, our guests will begin unpacking the topic of reproductive empowerment, including how to measure it. The second part of the episode, “Voice, Choice, and Action” will dive deeper into reproductive empowerment.