List of High Impact Practices in Family Planning

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The High Impact Practices in Family Planning (HIPs) are the reliable source on proven interventions for family planning, providing a global consensus on what works through user-friendly resources for country-level decision-makers to design, implement, and scale family planning programs that are cost-effective, scalable, and sustainable.The HIPs provide a framework to identify the best return on investment interventions for family planning programs, which becomes even more important in a time of constrained resources.

The HIPs provide consensus around what works in family planning. HIPs briefs detail evidence-based practices that have demonstrated impact on modern contraceptive use, are applicable across settings, and are scalable, sustainable, and cost-effective. Before a practice can be determined a HIP it is vetted by an international technical advisory group of family planning experts. HIPs maximize investments in a comprehensive family planning strategy.

HIPs briefs categories

Service Delivery HIPs improve the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of family planning services.
Social and Behavior Change HIPs influence knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, and social norms associated with family planning.
Enabling Environment HIPs address systemic barriers that affect an individual’s ability to access family planning information and services.
HIP Enhancements are tools or approaches that are not a standalone practice, but are often used in conjunction with at least two or more HIPs to maximize the impact of HIP implementation or increase the reach and access for specific audiences.

A full list of HIPs briefs in each category is below.

Service Delivery

Community Health Workers – Enable trained, equipped, and supported community health workers to deliver family planning services where people live and work and recognize them as part of the health system.
Immediate Postpartum Family Planning – Offer contraceptive counseling and services as part of facility-based childbirth care prior to discharge from the health facility.
Postabortion Family Planning – Proactively offer voluntary contraceptive counseling and services at the same time and location where women receive facility-based postabortion care to reduce unintended pregnancies.
Social Marketing – Improve quality and choice by organizing private providers into branded, quality-assured networks to increase access to provider-dependent contraceptive methods and related services.
Pharmacies and Drug Shops – Expand choice and access in the private sector by training and supporting pharmacies and drug shops to provide family planning information and a broad range of quality contraceptive methods.
Family Planning and Immunization Integration – Offer family planning information and services proactively to women in the extended postpartum period during routine child immunization contacts to promote healthy birth spacing and reduce unintended pregnancies.

Family Planning

Mobile Outreach Services – Conduct mobile outreach service delivery to provide a wide range of contraceptives, including short-acting, long-acting, reversible, and permanent methods, in locations chosen to reach populations with diverse access challenges and barriers.
Social Franchising – Improve quality and choice by organizing private providers into branded, quality-assured networks to increase access to provider-dependent contraceptive methods and related services.