AFP India JHPIEGO PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL POPULATION FOUNDATION OF

AFP India JHPIEGO PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL POPULATION FOUNDATION OF INDIA

Namaskar INDIA Name of Presentation AN EVIDENCE-BASED ADVOCACY INITIATIVE 2

Advocacy Wins 1. Six districts initiate family planning advocacy in Bihar State, India 2. State Innovations in Family Planning Services Agency (SIFPSA) approves establishment of district working groups (DWGs) in three districts of Uttar Pradesh: Agra, Lucknow and Jhansi and scale up to additional 47 districts 3. 1500 new male health cadre added as family planning motivators for NSV in UP 4. UP government approves fund for family planning program review meeting Name of Presentation AN EVIDENCE-BASED ADVOCACY INITIATIVE 3

DWG formation and meetings in India - PFI

Potential Advocacy Wins 1. Four corporates have verbally committed to include FP into their CSR policy. I. Ambuja Cement Foundation II. Jindal Stainless Ltd (JSL) III. Ashok Minda Group IV. Fluor Daniel India 2. Detailed action plan for ensuring FDS at Bokaro and Ranchi with guidelines for family planning at district level formalized and implemented on • Community linkages • HRH management and • Infrastructure / supplies management Name of Presentation AN EVIDENCE-BASED ADVOCACY INITIATIVE 5

Ongoing objectives in India Increased funding for FP through corporates Creating advocacy forums for FP • Contact 150 corporations with outbound advocacy messages • 10 Indian corporations have corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies that fund FP • Industries Association approves 3 days paid leave for workers opting NSV services in Firozabad District of Uttar Pradesh • State Working Group and 2 District Working Groups at Jharkhand India • District Working Group included in the institutional framework of UP Population Policy Name of Presentation Increased access to FP • Guidelines for funding Health Sub. Centres for FP in UP • Guidelines for Fixed day FP services implementation at Jharkhand • Additional Fund mobilized for training of Front Line workers in selected districts of UP & Bihar AN EVIDENCE-BASED ADVOCACY INITIATIVE 6

Advocacy Wins to Impact Increased and new financial contributions to family planning via CSR funding Increased access to quality service provision for sterilization services / IUCD services at UP, Bihar and Jharkhand Functional District Working Groups in UP, Bihar and Jharkhand with district specific strategy leads to improved quality of FP counselling services reflected in the increased uptake of FP services Name of Presentation AN EVIDENCE-BASED ADVOCACY INITIATIVE 7

Challenges and opportunities • Opportunity to scale up advocacy in states. How do you build an effective collaboration with stakeholders to ensure scale up of advocacy and its sustainability? • What indicators should we measure to ensure quality of care in family planning services? • Experiences of best practice; of the advocacy methodology toolkit; to achieve desired objectives Name of Presentation AN EVIDENCE-BASED ADVOCACY INITIATIVE 8