HRH2030 Program | Family planning

24 Aug Empowering Health Workers to Provide Gender-Competent Family Planning Services

Posted at 16:20h in Family planning, Gender Competencies (2.3), Skill mix and competency, Women and Gender in Health News

This post originally appeared on the Frontline Health Workers Coalition blog. Health workers can be powerful change agents to address equity. We’ve seen frontline workers heroically fight Ebola. We’ve seen them overcome stigma and their own biases to provide quality HIV services. What if we...

31 May USAID/Philippines, Department of Health Host Special Event to Launch HRH2030 Activity

Posted at 12:01h in Family planning, HRIS and health workforce data, Improving Access to Quality Health Services in the Philippines, Leadership and governance, News, Performance and productivity, Philippines News, Skill mix and competency

With officials from the Department of Health, local government representatives, and stakeholders from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, HRH2030 celebrated the launch of its new Philippines activity on May 29 with an event entitled, “Investing in the Health Workforce Saves Lives.” USAID/Philippines Director Lawrence Hardy...

04 May International Day of the Midwife: Promoting Diversity to Reduce Disparities in Maternal Health

Posted at 21:58h in Family planning, Other, Women and Gender in Health News

This post originally appeared on the Chemonics blog. Only one-third of the poorest mothers deliver with a midwife compared to 90 percent of the richest in low- and middle-income countries. How can we help all women to have a safe childbirth experience? Rachel Deussom shares...

09 Apr HRH2030, Partners Mobilize Local Leaders to Alleviate Family Planning Challenges in Cameroon

Posted at 18:34h in Family planning, Leadership and governance, Leadership and Management to Advance FP2020 (3.4)

In a hospital in the Bafia District of Cameroon, everyone is buzzing. A thirty-eight-year-old woman has died while miscarrying her eighth child. The midwife is visibly upset with the husband to the astonishment of onlookers. But why? Only a few months ago the midwife had...

08 Mar Three Questions with Samantha Law: Creating a Gender-Competent Family Planning Workforce

Posted at 15:00h in Family planning, Gender Competencies (2.3), Skill mix and competency, Women and Gender in Health News

Samantha Law is a manager with Chemonics’ Global Health Division and serves as gender lead on HRH2030. Each year on March 8, people and organizations around the world celebrate International Women's Day to commemorate the movement for women's rights. This year’s campaign #PressforProgress underscores the continued...

09 Nov HRH2030 Vets Gender Competency Work with Experts

Posted at 14:16h in Family planning, Gender Competencies (2.3), News, Skill mix and competency, Women and Gender in Health News

With support from USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health, HRH2030 recently convened a group of gender, family-planning, gender-based violence, and HRH experts and practicing midwives and nurses for a consultative forum to vet its work on defining and advancing gender competence in the...

07 Mar Empowering Health Workers to #BeBoldforChange

Posted at 14:54h in Family planning, Gender Competencies (2.3), News, Skill mix and competency, Women and Gender in Health News

On International Women’s Day 2017, HRH2030 reflects on how to empower health workers to #BeBoldforChange by ensuring provision of gender equitable health services to women and girls. When we think about gender and human resources for health (HRH), we typically think about the challenges women...

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