Thank you for reviewing proposed PPFP indicators and providing input. The open comment period will end October 15, 2018.
Background
Postpartum family planning (PPFP) is a key investment to fulfill FP2020 commitments and Sustainable Development Goals, but there is little data to track progress at country or global level. For that reason, new FP2020 Country Action Plans call for adding PPFP indicators to national health management information systems (HMIS) (http://www.familyplanning2020.org/entities).

A Measurement Committee1 was convened under the PPFP Community of Practice to recommend PPFP indicators that are appropriate for routinely collecting in a national HMIS. The committee first met in December 2017 to share learning on PPFP measurement and review the PPFP indicators adopted by a small number of countries that recently revised their HMIS. The group reconvened in May 2018 to develop recommendations, which are summarized here. This open comment period will allow a wider audience to weigh in on these recommendations.

Three recommendations are made under the following assumptions:
  • Indicators should measure coverage or utilization (not readiness or service availability)
  • Indicators must be feasible to collect by modifying existing, cross-sectional registers (recognizing that stand-alone, longitudinal, or electronic tools are not used at scale in most countries)
  • Indicators should be appropriate for aggregating at district, national, or global level (however, additional data may be collected to prompt providers to a particular action or to assess quality of care at facility level)
1Participating programs/organizations: US Agency for International Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Clinton Health Access Initiative, FP2020, Avenir Health/Track20, Unicef, World Health Organization, MEASURE Evaluation, Maternal Child Survival Program, Jhpiego, Pathfinder, FHI360, Countdown to 2030, Johns Hopkins University/Advance Family Planning, PMA2020, Save the Children

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