The FAM Project, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will research the process of scaling-up innovative fertility awareness-based family planning methods: the Standard Days Method (SDM), the TwoDay Method (TDM) and the Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM). The FAM Project is honored to be one of USAID’s premier projects devoted to developing and testing models for scale up. The objectives of this meeting are to: 1) share evidence reflecting the contribution of fertility awareness-based methods to meeting reproductive health and family planning goals, and 2) encourage the reproductive health community to collaborate with IRH as we scale up FAM services nationally in selected countries.

Please join us as we usher in this exciting new project to research the scale up of FAM. We assure you that you will walk away with a new appreciation for fertility awareness-based methods and their ability to establish promising models for scale up.

SESSION I: 8:30-12:30pm

• The meeting begins with an esteemed USAID panel that includes Kent Hill, Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health; Gloria Steele, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health; and Scott Radloff, Director of the Office of Population and Reproductive Health. Victoria Jennings, Director of the FAM Project, will highlight research results that have led to increased recognition of FAM’s contribution to expanding family planning options. She also will share plans for implementation of the new project and introduce IRH’s technical partners: MACRO International, The Population Council, JHPIEGO, IntraHealth, Abt Associates, Constella Futures, and Population Services International.
• ExpandNet developers, Peter Fajans, World Health Organization, and Ruth Simmons, University of Michigan, will describe their framework for scaling-up, drawing from country experiences with FAM and other family planning methods. The FAM Project is collaborating with these experts to develop and document strategies for scaling-up.
• A panel of Ministry of Health representatives from India, Madagascar, Mali and Rwanda moderated by Maurice Middleberg, Vice President of the Global Health Council, will field questions on the multi-dimensional aspects of FAM and scale up.

LUNCH: 12:30-1:30pm

• Our lunch speaker is Jeff Spieler, Senior Science Advisor in Population and Reproductive Health, Bureau for Global Health, USAID.

SESSION II: 1:30-4:00pm

• In the afternoon, participants can select the roundtable discussion of their choice, e.g., how scaling-up FAM relates to existing country programs or to gender, male involvement, community-based services, training and supervision, monitoring and evaluation, and social marketing.

RSVP:

Please let us know which session(s) you will be attending by contacting Meredith Puleio at mp447@georgetown.edu or 202-687-1392.

A) All day (8:30-4:00)

B) Session I only (8:30 – 12:30)

C) Session I and Lunch* (8:30-1:30)

D) Lunch* and Session II (12:30-4:00)

E) Session II only (1:30-4:00)

*If you are joining us for lunch, please indicate Vegetarian or Non-Vegetarian.

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