New Project Will Use Behavioral Science to Improve Family Planning Services in Uganda

September 17, 2018How can insights into individual behaviors and decisions improve the family planning and reproductive health services Ugandan health workers provide their clients? Through a new award from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, IntraHealth International and ideas42 are teaming up to answer this question.The new research project, called Scale-Up and Capacity Building in Behavioral Science to Improve the Uptake of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services (SupCap, for short) will improve the health and well-being of women of reproductive age in Eastern Uganda by helping increase the modern contraceptive prevalence rate and decrease unwanted pregnancies in 25 districts." There ’s often a disconnect between what we think will work and what works in practice. "Working closely with IntraHealth ’sRegional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Eastern Uganda (RHITES-E) activity, this research project will identify, test, and scale up a proven behavioral intervention to improve the quality of family planning services and make them available to more people in the region.“There’s often a disconnect between what we think will work and what works in practice,” says Jennifer Wesson, IntraHealth’s director of measurement and learning. “Designing interventions that include plans from the beginning to observe and measure what’s working—and then refine or cha nge course—can make all the difference in finding new ways to provide integrated hea...
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