MSI-US
For Support Of Global Integration Of Human-centered Design Practices
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Amount$1,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/12/2020
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
This grant to MSI-US will support an internal effort to incorporate principles and practices of human-centered design (HCD) into several aspects of their programming and reproductive health services. This grant represents a new phase of our support for HCD with MSI, following multiple grants for HCD projects in various countries. MSI would like to institute HCD practices across its entire organization to promote a staff culture of client-centered adaptation, including efforts to produce standard HCD tools and guidelines and to apply HCD to a new strategic focus on client feedback. This grant is aligned with the International Reproductive Health strategy’s aim to increase access to sexual and reproductive health services through innovation in service delivery.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.mariestopes.org.uk
Address
1730 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20036-1609, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of MSI's Sahel program
MSI-United States (MSI-US) provides reproductive health services to women and men in the Sahel region of West Africa in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal. Following on the success of two previous restricted grants to their regional Sahel program, this flexible program support will allow MSI-US to be responsive and innovative in their reproductive health service delivery. They have opportunities to expand to new countries and to continue to innovate in how they reach clients living in poverty and young people. MSI’s Sahel program will also focus on staff capacity and morale, which has suffered during COVID-19. This grant is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy to support the SRHR ecosystem in Francophone West Africa.
for a project to apply design thinking to reproductive health in Zambia
Marie Stopes International-US (MSI) is one of the largest family planning and reproductive health service delivery organizations in the world. This grant would support a partnership between MSI and IDEO.org to use design thinking, or human-centered design, to prototype new ways to increase the number of young people who use reproductive health services in Zambia. MSI’s program in Zambia seeks to increase the number of youth using its services, given this population’s high unplanned pregnancy rates, and this collaboration with IDEO.org is expected to provide innovative solutions for MSI to test. This project also seeks to demonstrate to the field the potential value of design thinking as an approach for increasing reproductive health services more broadly. The grant is proposed as part of the Foundation’s new strategy to use new tools and approaches to make sure that no woman has an unintended pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa.
