MSI-US

For Support Of A Family Planning Mobile Clinic In Senegal

Overview
Marie Stopes's program in Senegal started providing reproductive health services in 2011. In just over two years, Marie Stope/Senegal served over 45,000 women and generated more than 125,000 couple years of protection. In fact, the only other entity in Senegal that provides more reproductive health services than Marie Stopes is the Ministry of Health. This grant will support one Marie Stopes mobile outreach team that serves communities in an around Dakar to provide increased access to quality family planning services, increased equal opportunity to obtaining family planning services and increased knowledge and education towards positive behaviors around family planning. The Dakar-based team will serve more than 6,000 women in 2014.
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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.

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