This document describes the experience of 50 years of family planning program implementation worldwide and its impact on achieving fertility reduction. It illustrates areas of the world where family planning programs succeeded and where they have failed, while describing the general characteristics that have surrounded family planning programs and that have influenced their ability to obtain significant fertility reductions. These characteristics range from the political will to generate widespread behavior change to adopt contraception, to the belief of many world leaders that great nations are the result of large and increasing populations.

K4Health Gateways provide users the ability to search a number of Web sites from one location online, eliminating the need to conduct extensive searches on multiple sites. The sites included in the Gateways are authoritative sources of relevant information on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.

The Reproductive Health (RH) Gateway allows you to search a collection of 140 carefully selected Web sites to find relevant, reliable information for health professionals. Sites include United Nations, World Bank, World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, CARE, and the Global Health Council to name a few.

This site provides comprehensive, standardized, and evidence-based information on post abortion care. It serves as a repository of basic resources for policymakers and program planners who are designing or revising their current post abortion care program.

This training handbook summarizes the tasks that should be completed at each stage of family planning/reproductive health training to ensure an effective training course. The handbook is divided in four main sections: Managing Training, Designing Training, Delivering Training, and Evaluating Training.  Each section describes the steps necessary at each training stage to ensure a high-quality training course.  Training Works! is also available in French at the same link shown below.

The Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Initiative is a uniquely interactive partnership through which policy makers, programme managers, implementing organizations and providers are able to identify and apply evidence-based and proven effective practices to improve reproductive health outcomes worldwide.

• • Initiated by the World Health Organization and USAID, and supported by an increasing number of international and local reproductive health agencies, the IBP Initiative responds to several challenges in reproductive health, such as:
• • The lack of access to targeted and reliable information on what works and what does not work
• • Limited access to evidence-based tools, materials and strategies
• • Duplication of effort
• • Costly implementation of ineffective programs
• • Limited opportunities to share new knowledge with local and international colleagues
• • Few opportunities to scale-up successful approaches and programmes

The IBP Initiative is grounded in the principles of knowledge management and the management of change. The IBP partners develop approaches that encourage the transfer and exchange of knowledge, evidence-based practices, proven effective practices, experience and lessons learned in and among countries. This approach provides the building blocks for developing regional and country collaborative networks and formulating strategies and approaches that help to introduce, adapt, and scale-up proven effective practices that will improve access to quality of reproductive health.