Advance Family Planning’s (AFP’s) Mid-term Evaluation: Understanding, Expanding and Sustaining Advocacy Success is now available. Overall, the evaluation reflects how AFP has “facilitated impressive achievements and developed a popular and effective advocacy model.” It suggests ways in which AFP and others can expand advocacy efforts; achieve policy gains; and improve access to voluntary, quality contraceptive information, services, and supplies.
Recommendations include how to:
- sustain advocacy wins while building advocacy capacity,
- document progress and describe AFP’s impact holistically,
- scale up efforts and increase sustainability, and
- improve operations over the next two years and beyond.
Between January and April 2015, the evaluation team—Julie Solo, Kate Bourne, Cheikh Mbacké and Steve Sinding—conducted field visits and interviewed 191 of AFP’s partners and collaborators. The interviews took place by phone, during site visits in five focus countries, and at the AFP partners meeting in Baltimore in March 2015.
The AFP initiative was established in 2009 at the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health within the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2012, the initiative received five-year funding to continue and expand its work from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Through evidence-based advocacy AFP aims to increase the financial investment and political commitment needed to support the goals of the FP2020 partnership and ensure that women and couples in developing countries are able to obtain and use the contraceptive method of their choice.
Read the full Mid-term Evaluation.
View AFP's advocacy wins in the 2015 Progress Report.
Explore AFP's tools in the Advocacy Portfolio.