Family planning offered in the first year postpartum provides an opportunity to meet the needs of women who want to prevent unintended pregnancies or who want to delay having more children. Yet, globally, nearly 65% of women in their first postpartum year have an unmet need for family planning services.

This toolkit provides a comprehensive collection of best practices and evidence-based tools and documents on postpartum family planning (PPFP) developed through the ACCESS-FP Program and continued under the MCHIP project. The toolkit will assist policymakers, program managers, trainers, and service providers to develop and implement effective service delivery approaches that address the family planning needs of the postpartum women they serve.

Information is presented in the following categories:

Information on these categories is listed under the main thematic navigation tabs at the top of this page. They contain tools and resources to help you implement a variety of PPFP-related activities. Browse the topics, then click on the full-text resources to open or download them to your computer.

Uner each country tab you will find visual aids, training packages, case studies, analyses, assessments, and more. If you have an experience to share about the introduction or provision of PPFP services, we invite you to tell us about it on the Discussion Board where you can also suggest new resources. Another comprehensive section is Lactational Amenhorrea Method (LAM) (under global resources tab) which contains more than a dozen resources for promoting and providing the method, an important part of PPFP services.

To find out if a resource has already been included in this toolkit, type the title in the search box at the top of any toolkit page and click on the magnifying glass logo. For more detailed information about this and other K4Health e-Toolkits go to the About link at the top of this page.

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