Date: April 23, 2008 - April 24, 2008
Organization:	USAID's Bureau for Global Health, the Population Council’s FRONTIERS Program, and ACCESS-FP
Location:	Ronald Reagan Building, Rotunda Room 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
USAID's Bureau for Global Health, the Population Council’s FRONTIERS Program, and ACCESS-FP invite you to a two-day forum Strengthening Family Planning Services through Operations Research: Lessons Learned and Future Directions Wednesday and Thursday, 23-24 April 2008 Ronald Reagan Building, Rotunda Room 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC This two-day forum will synthesize and communicate the lessons learned from ten years of global operations research on increasing access, quality, and use of family planning (FP) services. The forum will review a wide range of evidence drawn from the experiences of FRONTIERS and its many partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The second day will be co-hosted with ACCESS-FP, and will focus on expanding access to and use of family planning services by postpartum women. Please RSVP by April 16 at http://www.popcouncil.org/frontiers/rsvp_fp08.asp AGENDA  - Day  1, Increasing Access, Quality, and Use of Family Planning (FP) Services, including Meeting FP and HIV Needs 8:30–9:00 Continental breakfast and registration   9:00–9:10 Welcome and opening remarks  - Patricia Stephenson, USAID  9:10–9:30 USAID's strategic directions and priorities for family planning - Scott Radloff, Director, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, USAID 9:30–9:45 Overview of FRONTIERS family planning legacy - Ian Askew, Director, FRONTIERS Program, Population Council/Kenya  9:45–11:00 Increasing access to and use of underutilized contraceptive methods  - Chair:  Judy Manning, USAID IUD and vasectomy - Ricardo Vernon, Population Council/Mexico Emergency contraception - M.E. Khan, Population Council/India Systematic screening to increase use of family planning - James Foreit, Population Council Discussant: The conundrum of access to optimal method mix  - John Townsend, Director, Reproductive Health Program, Population Council 11:00–11:30 Tea/coffee break 11:30–1:00 Improving quality of care for family planning services – Chair: Isaiah N’Dong, ACQUIRE/EngenderHealth Evaluating interventions to improve quality of FP services: Lessons from three countries - Ian Askew, Population Council/Kenya Strengthening and accrediting the gender sensitivity and quality of FP/RH services in Bolivia - Estela Rivero, Population Council/Mexico Developing and scaling up a quality assessment tool in India - M.E. Khan, Population Council/India Discussant: Improving quality of care: Are we expecting too much?  TBD 1:00–2:00 Lunch 2:00–3:15 Breakout sessions for concurrent demonstrations of FP strengthening tools  (two 35-minute sessions for each) Balanced counseling strategy (BCS) and BCS+ - Laura Raney, Population Council,  Wilson Liambila, Population Council/Kenya, and Mantshi Menziwa, Population Council/South Africa Systematic screening - James Foreit, Population Council and Ricardo Vernon, Population Council/Mexico Emergency contraception programming guidance tool  - M.E. Khan, Population Council/India and Sharif Hossain, Population Council/Bangladesh Health facility assessments - Estela Rivero, Population Council/Mexico and Saumya RamaRao, Population Council 3:15–3:30 Tea/coffee break 3:30–5:00 Linking family planning and HIV services – Chair: Mary Ann Abeyta-Behnke, USAID Reducing unwanted pregnancies and HIV transmission through linking CT with FP services - Mantshi Menziwa, Population Council/South Africa Meeting the FP needs of HIV-positive youth - Harriet Birungi, Population Council/Kenya Linking FP with PMTCT and postpartum HIV care - Charlotte Warren, Population Council/Kenya Discussant: Janet Fleischman, Chair, Gender Committee, HIV/AIDS Task Force, Center for Strategic and International Studies 5:00–5:15 Summary of key points - Ian Askew, Population Council/Kenya   AGENDA  - Day  2, Strengthening Postpartum Family Planning: Current Knowledge and Future Directions 8:30–9:00 Continental breakfast and registration 9:00–9:30 Welcome and opening remarks: Why postpartum family planning is so important –Catharine McKaig, Director, ACCESS-FP/JHPIEGO 9:30–11:00 Clinic-based services: Providing FP information and services during antenatal and postpartum visits – Chair: Patricia Stephenson, USAID Providing FP information during ANC: Lessons from Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean - Estela Rivero, Population Council/Mexico and Harriet Birungi, Population Council/Kenya Providing FP information and services during postpartum visits: Lessons from Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean - Ricardo Vernon, Population Council/Mexico Discussant: Koki Agarwal, Director, ACCESS/JHPIEGO 11:00–11:30 Tea/coffee break  11:30–12:30 Community-based services - Chair: Patricia MacDonald, USAID Healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies: Experiences from India and Egypt - Nahla Tawab, Population Council/Egypt Taking skilled services to the people: The community midwives approach in Kenya - Annie Mwangi,  Population Council/Kenya Community-based PPFP: Integration with MNH programs in Nigeria and Bangladesh - Robin Anthony Kouyate, ACCESS-FP  Discussant: May Post, Extending Service Delivery/Pathfinder 12:30–1:30 Lunch 1:30–3:00 Contraceptive methods during the postpartum period - Chair: Mihira Karra, USAID Hormonal methods - Holly Blanchard, ACCESS-FP/ACNM LAM and bridging to other methods - Marcos Arevalo, Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University IUD and sterilization - Roy Jacobstein, ACQUIRE/EngenderHealth 3:00–3:15 Summary of key points - Catharine McKaig, Director, ACCESS-FP/JHPIEGO        3:15–3:30 Concluding remarks - Ian Askew, Director, FRONTIERS Program, Population Council/Kenya Please RSVP by April 16 at http://www.popcouncil.org/frontiers/rsvp_fp08.asp