Community Based Distribution of Contraception

A review and critique of AID-funded operations research efforts through the beginning of 1980. The report is organized into 3 main parts: a summary providing a consise statement of the findings and recommendations an introduction and overview of basic data from systematic review of 30 operations research projects funded during the review period and a consideration of issues arising from the review including critical comments and recommendations for further operations research activities. Background on the development of community-based distribution programs and generalizations from experiences to date precede presentation of recommendations in a number of areas. The assumptions philosophy and history of the Family Planning Operations Research Contract initiated by AID to promote evaluation of family planning service delivery systems in less developed countries with special focus on evaluation of AIDs operations research projects are discussed. Topics considered in detail following the overview of AID projects include AID and host government organizational relationships review of experience and issues in social marketing the role of demand stimulation in community based distribution family planning research projects research and evaluation procedures and health components of the community based distribution program

Environmental health · Family planning · Population · Research methodology · Global Maternal and Child Health · ICT in Developing Communities · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

• The Situation Analysis Study of the Family Planning Program in Kenya

  Robert A Miller, Lewis Ndhlovu et al.•Studies in Family Planning•1991

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• Worker-Client Exchanges and Contraceptive Use in Rural Bangladesh

  Jonathan F Phillips, James F Phillips et al.•Studies in Family Planning•1993

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