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      Programs > Frontiers in Reproductive Health > Agenda for PAC Technical Meeting, 18–19 March 2008

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Agenda for Postabortion Care (PAC) Technical Meeting
"Moving Forward with Postabortion Care: Lessons Learned from Five Postabortion Care Focus Countries"
Tuesday and Wednesday, 18 and 19 March 2008
8:30 AM–4:30 PM
Hotel Monaco, Paris Ballroom
700 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004
 

Agenda with Presentations and Related Publications/Resources

18 March
Day 1: Decentralization
8.30–9.00 am Registration and continental breakfast
9:00–9:15 am Introduction and opening comments
Gloria Steele, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, USAID
9:15–9:35 am Overview of the USAID PAC strategy and GLP-funded activities (PDF)
Carolyn Curtis, Senior Clinical Specialist/Nurse Midwife, Team Leader/Postabortion Care, Bureau for Global Health, USAID
9:35–10:35 am

Country program experiences in PAC decentralization

  • Senegal (PDF)
    Saumya RamaRao, Senior Program Associate, Population Council
  • Tanzania (PDF)
    John Pile, Senior Technical Advisor for FP Services & Networks, ACQUIRE project
10:35–11:00 am Tea/coffee break
11:00–12:30 am Country program experience in decentralization and structured on-the-job training in Nepal (PDF)
Enriquito Lu, FP/RH Technical Director, JHPIEGO
12:30–1:30 pm Lunch
1:30–4:00 pm Compliance with US family planning requirements: An interactive session addressing compliance for PAC programs in varied levels of service and legal settings (hard copies of this presentation may be obtained from Beverly Johnston, Senior Policy Analyst, bjohnston@usaid.gov)
4:00 pm Wrap-up and issues to be addressed on Day 2
Betty Farrell, Senior Medical Associate/Integration, ACQUIRE project

19 March
Day 2: Community Mobilization
8.30–9.00 am Registration and continental breakfast
9:00–9:15 am Introduction and day’s planned activities
Laura Raney, Program Associate, Population Council FRONTIERS Program
9:15–9:45 am PAC community mobilization: Methodology and overview of the community action cycle (PDF)
Graciela Salvador-Davila, Senior RH/FP Advisor, Pathfinder, and Caroline Tran, Program Officer, Extending Service Delivery Project/Pathfinder
9:45–11:15 am PAC: What’s the community got to do with it? (panel)
  • What the community is telling us about their needs in PAC: Synthesis of Phase I community action plans from Bolivia, Senegal, and Kenya (PDF)
    Carolyn Curtis, Senior Clinical Specialist/Nurse Midwife, Team Leader/Postabortion Care, Bureau for Global Health, USAID
  • Results of implementation of the community action plans in Peru (PDF)
    Milka Dinev, Director, Extending Service Delivery Project/Pathfinder
  • Findings of the assessment of the Bolivia PAC community mobilization (PDF)
    Emma Ottolenghi
11:15–11:30 am Tea/coffee break
11:30 am–
12:15 pm		 COMMPAC/Kenya: CAC’s power to leverage support for PAC (PDF); Esther's story (PDF)
Nancy Russell, Senior Technical Advisor to Community Linkages, CARE, ACQUIRE partner
12:15–1:15 pm Lunch and learn: Is there value in a second PAC visit? (PDF)
Lori Bollinger, PhD, Health Policy Initiative, Constella Futures
1:15–2:45 pm Afternoon sessions
  • Community mobilization process
    Nancy Russell
  • Orientation to the Global PAC Resource Guide and Package
    Carolyn Curtis
  • The ALLOCATE model (PDF)
    Lori Bollinger
  • Structured on-the-job training
    Enriquito Lu
2:45–3:00 pm Tea/coffee break
3:00–4:30 pm Donor panel
Facilitator: Jeff Spieler, Senior Science Advisor, Office of Population and RH, Bureau of Global Health, USAID
4:30 pm Wrap-up: Where to go from here?
Carolyn Curtis

Related Publications/Resources

  • Senegal

    • "Assessment of the extension of postabortion care services in Senegal" (2007) (PDF)

    • "Senegal: Expand access to safe postabortion care services in rural areas" (2004) (full text)

    • “Taking postabortion care services where they are needed: An operations research project testing PAC expansion in rural Senegal” (2003) (PDF)

  • Tanzania

    • "Assessing the feasibility, acceptability and cost of introducing postabortion care in health centres and dispensaries in rural Tanzania" (2007) (PDF)

  • Nepal

    • "Implementation guideline of structured on-the-job-training (OJT) for postabortion care (PAC) in Nepal" (2007) (offsite PDF)

    • "Postabortion care on-the-job training: Trainer's guide" (2006) (offsite PDF)

    • "Postabortion care: A reference manual for improving quality of care" (2002) (offsite PDF)

    • "Postabortion care individual learning package: Supervisor's guide" (2002) (offsite PDF)

    • "Postabortion care on-the-job training: Trainee's guide" (2002) (offsite PDF)

  • PAC community mobilization

    • "Adaptation of the Bolivia community postabortion care model in Egypt and Peru" (2006) (offsite PDF)

    • "Community PAC program/Bolivia—Self-diagnosis: Action guide for community empowerment concerning complications of hemorrhages in the first half of pregnancy: Facilitator’s manual—1st cycle of community action" (2006) (offsite PDF)

    • "How to mobilize communities for health and social change" (offsite presentation)

  • Adolescents and PAC

  • Results of post-meeting evaluation by attendees (2008) (PDF)

See Also

For more information contact:
Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS)
Population Council
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 280
Washington, DC 20008 USA
Telephone: +1 202 237 9400
Facsimile: +1 202 237 8410
E-mail: frontiers@popcouncil.org


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