MSI-US
For Developing A Youth Program Using Human-centered Design
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Amount$300,000
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Program
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Date Awarded4/21/2016
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Since 2013 Marie Stopes International-US (MSI) has been collaborating with design firm IDEO.org to use human-centered design to improve the uptake of reproductive health services among teens in Zambia and Kenya. This grant will support MSI to develop a strategy and evaluation framework for youth programming that builds on this experience in Zambia and Kenya. MSI will first convene IDEO.org, the International Centre for Social Franchising, and donors for a consultative workshop in London in spring 2016. The team will use the workshop to agree on appropriate measures of success and options for scaling and sustaining youth services in these two countries and across MSI’s global platform.
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.
