FRONTIERS PROJECT
Influencing Reproductive Health Policy and Programs in the Philippines

Working with the Ministry of Health (MOH), FRONTIERS assessed the effectiveness of mobilizing teams of trained “policy champions” to promote managers’ utilization of research findings. The research showed that mobilizing policy champions to influence program managers to use operations research-tested tools can lead to significant program changes. The national Population Commission adopted the policy champion approach and is implementing it in other provinces. 
 

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Location

Philippines

Duration

September 2000–June 2001

Population Council researcher

Marilou Costello

Non-Council collaborators

Ministry of Health

Donor

US Agency for International Development

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

2003
"Philippines: Mobilize policy champion teams to foster utilization of management tools," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 31. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 171 KB)

2001
Masulit, Saniata, Marilou Costello, and Sahar Hegazi. "Influencing reproductive health policy and programs in the Philippines: Implementing an advocacy model for utilization of operations research," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 670 KB)

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See Also

• Philippines

• Research Tools

• FRONTIERS Philippines

• FRONTIERS Research Tools

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