FRONTIERS PROJECT
Measuring and Evaluating the Integration of Family Planning and Other Reproductive Health Services Through Innovative Data Collection Instruments and Methodologies

The past ten years have seen an increasing trend toward the integration of services previously offered independently, such as integrating family planning with HIV services, the service package offered through focused antenatal care, and the link between postabortion care and family planning. Integration can increase service effectiveness and efficiency, but it can also pose challenges in that integration often requires training for providers, service reorganization, budgetary changes, and other adjustments.

This project will bring together the innovative measurement instruments that have been developed, tested, and validated during FRONTIERS research on integration in many countries and make them available through a handbook on assessing integrated family planning services, a document on tools for introducing integrated pregnancy services in sub-Saharan Africa, and a program brief describing the adaptation of health facility assessments for evaluation of integrated services.

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Location

Interregional

Duration

August 2007–March 2008

Population Council researchers

Estela Rivero, Saumya RamaRao, Charlotte Warren, and Harriet Birungi

Donor

US Agency for International Development

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See Also

• Research Tools

• FRONTIERS Interregional

• FRONTIERS FP/HIV Integration
• FRONTIERS Research Tools
• FRONTIERS Quality of Care Improvement

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