A Year in Review: Technical Publications & Resources
In the past fiscal year, from July 2023 to June 2024, EngenderHealth has continued to collect and analyze project data, conduct research crucial to informing our programming, and document and reflect upon program learnings. We have also published a variety of articles, briefs, factsheets, tools, and more—to share our learning with others in our sector. The breadth of knowledge included in this body of work exemplifies the strategic thinking and hard work of our staff and partners. From project briefs, articles in peer-reviewed journals, and a health systems strengthening strategy, to a Bystander Intervention Framework to address gender-based violence, a new language guide focused on our philanthropic community, and an equitable partnership framework and toolkit, our 2024 fiscal year (FY24) has been one of continued reflection, learning. We are excited to share a compilation of our publications here!
Publication Highlights
Among the publications from FY24 is our Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) strategy. This strategy builds on the World Health Organization’s six health systems building blocks—(1) leadership and governance; (2) service delivery; (3) health system financing; (4) healthcare workforce; (5) medical products, vaccines, and technologies; and 6) health information systems—and details how we work with various partners to support health systems in becoming more resilient, gender-equitable, and responsive to the needs of the people they serve.
This year, we revised our postabortion care (PAC) curriculum—which includes a Trainer Guide, Participant Guide, Reference Manual, and related slide decks—to incorporate key clinical updates and reflect global health learnings from the past decade to help improve access to affordable, high-quality PAC worldwide. The curriculum builds upon an earlier version published in 2010.
Over the years, EngenderHealth has set forth principles to ensure our language helps us affect the changes we wish to see. This year we expanded our language guides to include one on philanthropic communications, to facilitate a more equitable paradigm—one that emphasizes the agency of the communities we support, eradicates the saviorism rhetoric, and creates a new narrative of shared power. Amy Agarwal, EngenderHealth’s Principal Writer, Editor, and Designer, co-authored this language guide and also answered frequently asked questions about using inclusive, respectful language to help us and those we work with promote acceptance, equality, and inclusion with our words and actions.
We also recently expanded and updated our portfolio of Geographic and Topical Factsheets. These updated factsheets highlight our expertise and capabilities in adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights, family planning and sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and social inclusion, and maternal and obstetric care. We also introduced new factsheets highlighting the depth and breadth of work in West and Central Africa and India.
Together with our partners, we developed a Partnership Framework and Toolkit, using a variety of inclusive approaches to ensure that these materials are reflective of our partners’ needs and the experience of our staff across the world. Developed in line with EngenderHealth’s core values and designed to provide strategic direction and practical tools for building long-lasting, equitable partnerships, we hope that these resources will guide us, and others, to better achieve our shared goals of locally led development. Learn more about our vision and approach to building equitable partnerships.
Our intersectional approach to programming prioritizes the holistic well-being of the individuals we serve around the world. Several EngenderHealth experts shared their perspectives on EngenderHealth’s work at key intersections in India, Ethiopia, and Tanzania, including discussing how our community-driven interventions exemplify the power of working at the intersections of health and development to better engage local communities, foster ownership, and ensure sustainability of project achievements.
Technical Publications and Resources: July 2023 to July 2024
The following publications from July 2023 to July 2024 directly contribute to one of EngenderHealth’s primary values—reflection. We are committed to questioning, challenging, learning, and adapting as part of our work. We center evidence by documenting and reviewing our activities and achievements, conducting rigorous studies, and applying our findings and the lessons learned to improve all our programs and contribute to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender equality. We are pleased to share these learnings with you.
Organizational Approaches, Frameworks, Reports, and Strategies
- EngenderHealth’s Approach to Intersections
- EngenderHealth’s Approach to Safeguarding Clients’ Rights and Choices in Programs that Focus on a Narrow Range of Family Planning Methods
- FY23 Annual Impact Report
- FY23 Annual Impact Summary
- FY23 Annual Report
- Geographic and Topical Factsheets Collection
- Health Systems Strengthening Strategy brief
- Partnership Framework and Toolkit
- Postabortion Care Curriculum
- SAFE-ACTIONS Bystander Intervention Framework
Language Guidance
Program Reports
- Expanding Uptake of Hormonal Intrauterine Devices in Nigeria Using a Competency-Based Approach and a System Strengthening Lens
- Understanding Barriers to Critical Health Services in the Borena and Jimma Areas of Ethiopia: A Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion Analysis Conducted by EngenderHealth’s REACH Project
- Celebrating 15 Years of Adolescent Health Programming in India: Tarunya Yearbook
- Understanding Young People’s Expectations about and Experiences with Abortion Care Access in Benin
Key Publications from the EngenderHealth-led MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics
Call to Action
Program Reports
- Antenatal Care Interventions to Increase Contraceptive Use in the Period Following Birth in Low- And Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of the Literature
- Applying a Holistic Approach to Fistula Care in Nigeria
- Gender-Integrated Response to Emerging Covid-19 Priorities in India Technical Briefs and Informational Leaflet
- Quality Improvement Approaches for Safe Surgery in Nigeria: MPCDSR, Robson Classification and the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
- Revitalizing and Scaling Up Postpartum and Postabortion Family Planning Within Universal Health Coverage: Global Convening Report
Fact Sheets
- Factsheet on Counseling, Informed Consent, and Debriefing (CCD) for Cesarean Section: Hard to Define, Achieve, and Monitor
- Counseling, Informed Consent, and Debriefing for Cesarean Section in Nigeria
- Induction and Augmentation of Labor in India: Excessive and Inappropriate Use of Uterotonics In and Out of Health Facilities
Webinars and Videos
- Cesarean delivery informational video filmed in India. In Hindi and Kannada with English subtitles
- Webinar: Supporting the Fistula Patient’s Journey through the Safe Surgery Ecosystem: Marching Toward 2030
Blogs and Stories
- Early Intervention Among Women Getting Cesareans in Rwanda is Saving Lives
- From Despair to a Smile for a Nigerian Woman: A Transformation Long Desired
- Improving the Patient Experience in the Context of Obstetric Surgery: Counseling, Consent, Debriefing and Cesarean Delivery
- Improving Vasectomy Care Expands Contraceptive Choice, Encourages Male Engagement in India
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- Authors’ Response to Letter on “Down but Not Out: Vasectomy Is Faring Poorly Almost Everywhere-We Can Do Better to Make It a True Method Option,” published in Global Health: Science and Practice
- Client satisfaction on family planning, its myths, and misconceptions amonth women in Wolaita zone, Southern Ethiopia: A mixed methods design, published in Heliyon
- Counseling, Informed Consent, and Debriefing for Cesarean Section in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review, published in International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
- Current Approaches to Following Up Women and Newborns After Discharge From Childbirth Facilities: A Scoping Review, published in Global Health: Science and Practice
- The Effect of a Decade Implemented Project in Improving the Uptake of Comprehensive Contraception: Difference-In-Difference Analysis, published in Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
- Family Planning Integration in Ethiopia’s Primary Health Care System: A Qualitative Study on Opportunities, Challenges and Best Practices, published in Reproductive Health
- Lessons Learned from Conceptualising and Operationalising the National Adolescent Health Programme or Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram’s Learning Districts Initiative in Six Districts of India, published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
- Methods and Measures to Assess Health Care Provider Behavior and Behavioral Determinants in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health: A Rapid Review, published in Global Health: Science and Practice
- Participatory Approaches to Programme Design, Planning and Early Implementation: Experiences from a Safe Surgery Project in Nigeria, published in Health Policy and Planning
- Prevalence and Perceptions of Gender-Based Violence, and Factors Associated with Gender-Based Violence among Adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study, published in African Journal of Reproductive Health
- Strengthening the Family Planning Component of Maternal Health Care: A New Call to Action to Seize the Opportunity Provided by Universal Health Coverage and Primary Healthcare Frameworks, published in International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
We are grateful to our staff and partners who contributed to these publications. We greatly value your expertise and experience. We look forward to another strong year of publications ahead, where we continue to review and share program learnings (including successes and failures) to improve our processes and increase our impact, to reflect upon and adapt the language we use to ensure we continue to be inclusive and respectful with our words, and to share what we have learned to help us all continue to better as know better.
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