HC3 in Action: Enhancing Family Planning Service Delivery through SBC

This brief describes key examples, challenges and insights from family planning service delivery initiatives across the HC3 project.

Compound Meeting Flip Chart: Childbirth Spacing is Good for Everyone

This flip chart is intended to be used by community mobilizers in Nigeria making visits to compounds in order to discuss family planning and birth spacing options for women, describing how they, their families and communities at large benefit from birth spacing. English and Hausa are included side-by-side.

Community Dialogue Flip Chart: Childbirth Spacing is Good for Everyone

This flip chart, which includes English and Hausa side-by-side,…

Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy Case Studies: Using the HTSP Implementation Kit to Address Advanced Maternal Age and High-Parity Pregnancy in Togo and Niger

In 2016, Marie Stopes International (MSI) and the Association Togolaise pour le Bien-Être Familial (ATBEF) utilized the HC3 Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) Advanced Maternal Age and High-Parity Pregnancy Implementation Kit to address and prevent high-risk pregnancies in Togo and Niger. These case studies present the results from each of those pilot projects.

Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy Research Briefs: Advanced Maternal Age and High-Parity Pregnancy in Togo and Niger

In 2015, HC3 conducted research to better understand the knowledge, attitudes, practices and socio-cultural factors in Togo and Niger that lead women to continue having children later in life and after they have already had many births. Focusing solely on women age 35 and older and women having five or more births, the research ultimately informed the HC3 Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) Advanced Maternal Age and High-Parity Pregnancy Implementation Kit.

Qualitative Research on Advanced Maternal Age and High Parity Pregnancies in West Africa

This qualitative research report is focused on the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and contributing factors around AMA and HP pregnancies, as well as barriers and facilitators to AMA and HP women’s modern family planning (FP) method use, in West Africa.

Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies Implementation Kit

The HTSP I-Kit is designed to help program managers address the risks of pregnancies among women aged 35 and older (of advanced maternal age, or AMA) and women having five or more births (high-parity, or HP) in their family planning or maternal and child health programs.