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SihatMand Khandaan Healthy Families for Pakistan
Sponsor: Aga Khan University
Summary
The SMK project's primary goal is to improve the status of SRH of women and adolescents within those targeted areas which feature inadequate progress on existing SRH indicators. The focus remains on empowering increasingly marginalized and vulnerable populations to exercise their reproductive rights, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. This will be achieved through the implementation of evidence-based and socio-culturally sensitive FP/ SRH interventions within ten districts of Pakistan. The aim of this project is therefore to evaluate the impact of a package of community and facility-based interventions on improving the SRH/ FP of the targeted population. In order to achieves this, a quasi-experimental pre \& post evaluation intervention study with a formative phase, baseline assessment, intervention phase and finally an end-line assessment, consisting of both qualitative \& quantitative monitoring \& evaluation tools will be applied at the household, community, healthcare facility and district levels in all project areas. Furthermore, descriptive statistics will be tabulated on key indicators and stratified on selected variables. Means for continuous variables and proportion for categorical variables will be calculated at a 95% confidence interval within this study
Official title: Healthy Families for Pakistan Through Accelerating Gender-responsive Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) and Family Planning (FP) Services
Key Details
Gender
FEMALE
Age Range
15 Years - 49 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
236000
Start Date
2021-04-01
Completion Date
2024-12-31
Last Updated
2024-07-31
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
Uptake of quality Reproductive health and Family planning products, information and Services
Strengthening capacity of health facilities and outreach to deliver quality reproductive and family planning services and address demand side barriers to the uptake of the services
Capacity building of facility based and community based healthcare providers (public and private sector) on FP /SRH
Training sessions on FP / SRH including FP Methods - LARC, PPIUD - Task Sharing \& Shifting for facility based healthcare providers at provincial level for Master Trainers with trickle down sessions at district level. Training on Sayana Press, ECP, Balance Counselling Strategy and Life Skills Based Education for community-based healthcare providers including LHWs at district level.
Adolescent Engagement
Identification of adolescent-friendly spaces through community based platforms including LHW health houses for girls and village health committees for boys with context-appropriate arrangements for LSBE and SRH counselling.
Renovation and Refurbishment of selected healthcare facilities
Identification and improvement/ renovation of public and private healthcare facilities to strengthen the quality, provision and delivery of FP/SRH services, especially counselling, to catchment population
Use of Data for Effective Decision-making
Improvement in data recording at the source level with reporting at existing platforms i.e. DHIS and LHW-MIS and use of this data for local decision making
Procurement of FP/SRH medical supplies and equipment
Provision of commodities / supplies for shortest-time possible in facilities having stock-outs
Locations (2)
Aga Khan University
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Aga Khan University
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan