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The Human-Centered Design (HCD) Exchange is a community of implementers, funders, designers, and evaluators committed to advancing learning and practice related to the integration of human-centered design and adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) in low-resource settings. The HCDExchange was first launched in 2018. JSI has partnered with the Kenya-based inSupply and the community of practice…
JSI is currently the implementing partner in Madagascar for the DMPA-SC Access Collaborative Project, working to ensure the successful scale-up of the self-injectable contraceptive, DMPA-SC. JSI is also implementing the USAID-funded bilateral project, Mahefa Miraka in Madagascar, working in seven remote regions to strengthen the local public health system’s capacity to manage community health activities…
JSI helped the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Bangladesh meet the reproductive health needs of the Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. JSI also advised the UNFPA Cox’s Bazar team on systems strengthening steps that would make the transition from procuring Inter-Agency Reproductive Health (IARH) kits to individual products more successful. JSI estimated demand and calculated the…
The USAID-supported Systems, Health, and Resiliency Project (SHARP) (2019-2023) focused on improving the quality and accessibility of health services with an emphasis on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child health, and nutrition, especially in hard-to-reach areas. SHARP’s three goals were to improve maternal and child health outcomes, increase community engagement in the health sector, and improve…
Since 2013, JSI has leveraged its over 30 years of leadership in health supply chain management to monitor various family planning (FP) pharmaceutical agreements negotiated by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (the Foundation) with manufacturers. These agreements were enacted under the Family Planning 2020 initiative (FP2020) to reduce the public sector purchase price of…
Global health funders and practitioners are searching for innovative approaches to meeting the health needs of women in developing countries. Core offers new framing for understanding women's life-course journeys toward health and well-being, as well as human-centered design (HCD) led processes to identify and test solutions for meeting women’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs…
Through this project, JSI strengthened the reproductive health supply chain in Myanmar to improve the availability of essential reproductive health (RH) commodities at service delivery points. Initial technical assistance activities in pursuit of this goal focused on assessing the current supply chain system for delivering RH commodities, and facilitating a participatory process to design and…
Working with the Ministry of Health and local district governments, JSI led the USAID-funded Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services-North, Lango (USAID RHITES-N, Lango) project to strengthen the health system in the Lango sub-region of Uganda to improve access and availability of quality health services for individuals and their families, reaching over 2 million people….
As injectable contraceptives – in particular Sayana Press – were being introduced in Benin, JSI was asked to develop a training curriculum on these types of contraceptives at the community level. With the buy-in of Benin's Ministries of Health and Higher Education, JSI introduced training modules into the curriculum at l'École Nationale de Formation Médico-Sociale…
Egypt’s population rose from 72 million in 2006 to 100 million in 2020. This growth is primarily due to an increasing birth rate, from an average of 3.0 births per woman in 2008 to 3.5 in 2013. If this trend continues, Egypt’s population is expected to reach 128 million by 2030. The government of Egypt…