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Moving forward with Postabortion Care – Emerging models and lessons learned from five Postabortion Care Focus Countries

  Date: March 18, 2008 - March 19, 2008
Organization: USAID's Postabortion Care Working Group, the Population Council’s FRONTIERS Program, and The ACQUIRE Project, led by EngenderHe
Location: Hotel Monaco, Paris Ballroom
700 F St. NW, Washington DC 20004
Nearest Metro stop: MCI Center/Gallery Place

USAID's Postabortion Care Working Group, the Population Council’s FRONTIERS Program, and The ACQUIRE Project, led by EngenderHealth, invite you to a two-day meeting,

Moving forward with Postabortion Care – Emerging models and lessons learned from five Postabortion Care Focus Countries

Please RSVP by March 12th at http://www.popcouncil.org/frontiers/rsvp

Agenda – Day 1, Decentralization

8.30 – 9.00 Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 Introduction and opening comments – Gloria Steele, Sr. Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, USAID

9:15 – 9:35 Overview of the USAID PAC Strategy and GLP funded activities – Carolyn Curtis, Sr. Clinical Specialist/Nurse Midwife, Team Leader/Postabortion Care, Bureau for Global Health, USAID

9:35 – 10:35 Country Program Experiences in PAC Decentralization:
  • Senegal – Saumya Ramarao, Sr. Program Associate, Population Council
  • Tanzania – John Pile, Sr. Technical Advisor for FP Services & Networks, ACQUIRE project
    Discussion
  • 10:35 – 10:55 Tea/coffee break

    11:00 – 11:45 Country Program Experience in Decentralization and Structured On-the-Job Training in Nepal –Enriquito Lu, FP/RH Technical Director, JPHIEGO

    11:45 – 12:30 How to establish Structured On-the-Job Training – Enriquito Lu

    12:30 – 1:30 Lunch and Learn – Highlight of CEFOREP report - Saumya Ramarao

    1:30 – 4:00 Update on US Government Compliance - USAID/Washington Team

    4:00 Wrap–up and Issues to be addressed on Day 2 – Betty Farrell, Sr. Medical Associate/Integration, ACQUIRE project

    Agenda – Day 2, Community Mobilization

    8.30 – 9.00 Registration and continental breakfast

    9:00 – 9:15 Introduction and Day’s planned activities – Laura Raney, Program Associate, Population Council’s FRONTIERS Program

    9:15 – 9:45 PAC Community Mobilization: Methodology and Overview of the Community Action Cycle - Graciela Salvador-Davila, Sr. RH/FP Advisor, Pathfinder, and Caroline Tran, Program Officer, Extending Service Delivery Project/Pathfinder

    9:45 – 11:15 PAC – What’s the community got to do with it? (Panel)
  • What the community is telling us about their needs in PAC: Synthesis of Phase I community action plans from Bolivia, Senegal, and Kenya – Carolyn Curtis, Sr. Clinical Specialist/Nurse Midwife, Team Leader/ Postabortion Care, Bureau for Global Health, USAID
  • Results of implementation of the community action plans in Peru – Milka Dinev, Director, Extending Service Delivery Project/Pathfinder
  • Findings of the assessment of the Bolivia PAC Community Mobilization – (TBD)
  • 11:15 – 11:30 Tea/coffee break

    11:30 – 12:15 COMMPAC/Kenya: The Community Action Cycle’s Power to Leverage Support for PAC – Nancy Russell, Sr. Technical Advisor to Community Linkages, CARE, ACQUIRE partner

    12:15 – 1:15 Lunch and Learn - Is there Value in a Second PAC Visit? – Lori Bollinger, PhD, Health Policy Initiative, Constella Futures

    1:15 – 2:45 Afternoon Session(s) (These sessions may be available pending participant interest)
  • Community Mobilization Process
  • Orientation to the Global PAC Resource Guide and Package
  • The ALLOCATE Model
  • Structured On-the-Job Training
  • 3:00 – 4:30 Donor Panel (Planned)- Jeff Spieler, Sr. Science Advisor, Office of Population and RH, Bureau of Global Health, USAID, Facilitator

    4:30 Wrap–up – Where to go from here? – Carolyn Curtis,

    Sr. Clinical Specialist/Nurse Midwife, Team Leader/ Postabortion Care, Bureau for Global Health, USAID