Advancing the ICPD agenda with community health workers in Uganda

Living Goods commits to advancing the ICPD agenda to expand access and uptake of family planning services and register, monitor, and support pregnancies to flag risk factors and ensure that pregnant women attend all antenatal care clinic visits and give birth in a health facility.

By 2030, Living Goods commits to supporting the Government of Uganda to:

-Extend the provision of family planning services in the districts we operate in across Uganda. More than 7,000 of Living Goods-supported CHWs will provide comprehensive family planning services including two types of daily birth control pills, condoms, the injectable Sayana Press (DMPA-SP) and referrals for longer-term and permanent options. Additionally, CHWs will provide client-centered counseling approaches in which CHWs customize messages to the needs of individual women and their reproductive goals.

-Register more than 500,000 pregnancies in the districts we operate in across Uganda to receive regular visits by CHWs who encourage uptake of healthy pregnancy behaviors including ANC care and facility delivery as well as flag risk factors and danger signs, and referral of high-risk pregnancies to a proper facility. Living Goods will also send automated text messages with advice timed to their delivery date.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action
  Our commitment will be reached through increasing the amount of community health workers receiving Living Goods support to deliver family planning and maternal health services, and through targeted advocacy for supportive policies and funding.