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Intra-Country
Meeting with Partners
and
Country Teams, India
Uttar
Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Jharkhand,
and Andhra Pradesh
Implementing Best Practices to
Improve Reproductive Health JayPee Palace Hotel,
Agra, India
21
– 25 September, 2003
Goals
To improve access to and quality of reproductive
health care through a systematic approach to developing and supporting
strategies that introduce, adapt, and apply evidence-based best practices in
reproductive health in India.
Technical theme of the meeting
Managing change and creating enabling environments
to improve the quality, demand, and utilization of reproductive health
services.
Purpose
To foster collaboration and sustained commitment to
implement best practices.
Objectives
To introduce and discuss managerial, programmatic,
and technical best practices:
 State-of-the-art
processes for implementing best practices
Quality and access issues related to the
distribution, promotion, and use of contraceptive methods to prevent unwanted
pregnancy and the transmission of STIs/HIV
Increase contraceptive choices to prevent
unwanted pregnancy and meet the needs of post-pregnant women and adolescents
Skilled birth attendance and the management of
obstetric emergencies through an effective referral system
Leadership for implementing best practices
Performance improvement processes
Programmatic and community-based models
To develop a plan of action to incorporate new
approaches and practices that include
Individual
and team commitments
List
of activities
Timeline
Roles
and responsibilities
Expected
outcomes
To develop a follow-up plan to support the
implementation of the plan of action:
Identify
mentors
Report
activities and outcomes
Celebrate
success
Provide
on-going assistance to overcome obstacles that will emerge
Outcomes
Increased
knowledge about best practices
Increased
knowledge about managing and leading a process of change to implement best
practices
Team
commitment to undertake the plan of activities they have developed to
implement the best practices they selected
Individual
commitments to support the implementation of the best practices that have
been selected
Mentors'
commitment to undertake the activities required to follow-up and support
individual and team commitments
Criteria for selecting participants
Participants must be experienced technical and
managerial decision-makers with a key role in or responsibility for
reproductive health programmes, including family
planning, management and prevention of STIs/HIV,
and maternal health.
Profile
Experienced
managers and decision-makers from different levels of the health system
Excellent
communicators willing to establish a collaborative process with government
counterparts and collaborating partners
Energetic
and highly motivated
Skilled
supervisors
Experience
in under-served areas
Background Paper - Annexure I
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