FRONTIERS PROJECT
Reviewing and Redirecting the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council’s (ZNFPC) Community-based Distribution (CBD) Program Toward More Cost-effective Alternatives

FRONTIERS worked with the ZNFPC, the country's oldest program for CBD of family planning. Researchers assessed ZNFPC's CBD program and developed recommendations for broadening the role of community agents, including adding HIV and AIDS education to their portfolio of duties. The study found that the declining performance of the existing CBD program was due to increased availability of family planning services through clinics and the increased proportion of family planning users wanting to use methods not supplied by community agents. Results of this study have been used by the ZNFPC to develop a strategy for redirecting the community-based distribution program.

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Location

Zimbabwe

Duration

August 1999–September 2000

Population Council researcher

Baker Ndugga Maggwa

Non-Council collaborators

Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council

Donor

US Agency for International Development

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type. 

2002
"Zimbabwe: CBD roles modified to address Zimbabwe's HIV/AIDS crisis," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 29. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 275 KB)

2001
Maggwa, Baker Ndugga, Ian D. Askew, Caroline S. Marangwanda, Ronika Nyakauru, and Barbara Janowitz.  "An assessment of the Zimbabwe national family planning council's community based distribution programme," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 104 KB)

1999
"Zimbabwe: RTI screening methods for women are not cost-effective,"  FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 1. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 338 KB)

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See Also

• Zimbabwe
• Contraception
• HIV and AIDS
• FRONTIERS Community-based Distribution of Contraceptives

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