Resource Type: Guide, manual or tool
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HIV Cascade Toolkit: A User’s Guide for Constructing, Presenting, Interpreting and Using HIV Cascades in Vietnam
December 2014 — The HIV Cascade Toolkit is a diagnostic, monitoring and program prioritization tool. Vietnam is starting to routinely use the cascade at site, district and national levels, and this guide will now form the foundation of national guidelines that further institutionalize the toolkit as key to a transitioning HIV response. The toolkit was developed…
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Facebook over Face-to-Face Time: Using Social Media to Access Hard-to-Reach Populations of Men Who Have Sex with Men in Ghana
2014 — This technical brief, by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and FHI 360’s Strengthening HIV/AIDS Response Partnership with Evidence-Based Results (SHARPER) project, highlights why social media is an important tool for reaching men who have sex with men who may not otherwise be reached by traditional HIV prevention outreach activities led by peer…
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Integrating Mobiles into Development Projects
August 2014 — This handbook was prepared by FHI 360 and OpenRevolution for U.S. Agency for International Development staff and other development practitioners who are interested in using mobile technology effectively in their projects. The handbook contains two sections: an in-depth guide to everything you might need to know about mobiles and practical information for…
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Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR) Bangladesh Knowledge Products
March 2014 — This series of knowledge products provides an overview of mobile financial services in Bangladesh. These tools are intended to help U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) implementing partners better understand the options that exist for mobile financial services in the country. In Bangladesh, FHI 360’s Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR) project supports the…
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Positive Connections: Leading Information and Support Groups for Adolescents Living with HIV
October 2013 — Positive Connections: Leading Information and Support Groups for Adolescents Living with HIV is a unique guide that provides facilitators with background information about the needs of ALHIV, tips for starting an adult-led information and support group, and 14 sessions to follow in a group setting. The goal of the guide is to help ALHIV: Understand…
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Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation System Assessment Tool
October 2013 — The Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System Assessment Tool (SAT) is a generic tool developed as a diagnostic exercise for programs and projects to critically examine their M&E systems, identify areas performing well and critical gaps, and develop a quality improvement plan to maintain strengths and overcome weaknesses in their M&E system. These guidelines…
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Participatory Data Verification and Improvement Tool
October 2013 — The Data Verification and Improvement Tool (DVT) is a generic tool developed as a diagnostic exercise for programs and projects to implement at all levels. These guidelines provide the framework and operational guidance) to assess and improve program or project data. The exercise will help to determine the accuracy of reported data, conduct root…
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A Guide to Effective and Efficient Provision of Combined Oral Contraceptives (COCs)
2008 — This easy-to-use tool assists health workers of all levels in the implementation of four evidence-based strategies recommended by the World Health Organization to increase uptake and continuation of combined oral contraceptives (COCs). These strategies include: Quick Start (women take their first pill under observation during a clinic visit, regardless of where they are…
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Job aids for the reinjection of injectable contraceptives
2009 — FHI 360 and IntraHealth International field tested and co-branded several job aids designed to help health care providers better serve women who return for reinjections of the contraceptives depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) and norethisterone enantate (NET-EN). Research that FHI 360 conducted in South Africa, with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, revealed that approximately half of injectable…
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Screening checklists for safe contraceptive use and to rule out pregnancy (Nigeria)
2009 — The Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria, in partnership with FHI 360, has developed multiple job aids to assist family planning providers in Nigeria to perform essential tasks such as screening clients for method eligibility. Checklist for Screening Clients Who Want to Initiate Combined Oral Contraceptives (Nigeria) Checklist for Screening Clients Who Want to…