Intervention Comparison
Zonal and Woreda Health Office
  • Initial meeting to explain study purpose and procedures
  • Half-day orientation to encourage informed choice and voluntary contraceptive use
  • Joint study supervision visits with study staff
  • Regular meetings on findings from supervision visits
  • Advocacy for Women Development Army revitalization
Yes Yes
Health Center
  • Providers of antenatal, labor & delivery, and postnatal care and immunization services trained in PPFP counseling with a contraceptive technology update in August 2016 (3 days)
Yes Yes
  • Labor & delivery providers trained in postpartum IUD insertion plus refresher on implant insertion and removal in October 2016 (4 days)
Yes Yes
  • Post-training follow-up visit conducted with observations of service provision to reinforce knowledge and competency
Yes Yes
  • Postpartum IUD kits and supplies provided
Yes Yes
  • Postpartum IUD insertion and follow-up registers introduced to record timing of insertion, information about the delivery, follow-up received, and complications
Yes Yes
  • Tally sheets introduced to track the number of women counseled and PPFP provided during other maternal, newborn, and child health services; wall-mounted dashboards introduced to analyze and discuss service provision on a weekly basis
Yes (July 2017) Yes (Nov 2017)
  • Primary health care unit directors received half-day orientation to encourage informed choice and voluntary contraceptive use
Yes Yes
  • Supportive supervision conducted on PPFP (included: observation of counseling and services and feedback, record review, extracting service data, provider interviews at 1st and last visit)
Yes (8 visits) Yes (5-6 visits)
  • Replacement training on PPFP counseling and service provision provided in November 2017 (7 days)
Yes Yes
Health Post
  • HEWs trained on PPFP counseling with refresher on implant insertion and introduction of Nexplanon™ in April 2017 (4 days)
Yes No
  • Modified integrated maternal and child health card (kept at health post) introduced to capture PPFP counseling and service provision and track woman’s risk of unintended pregnancy
Yes No
  • Modified tally sheet introduced as support for monthly reporting to aggregate data on PPFP counseling and services
Yes No
  • Kebele leaders received half-day orientation to encourage informed choice and voluntary contraceptive use
Yes No
  • Supportive supervision on PPFP conducted
Yes (4 visits) No
Women’s Development Army
  • Half-day orientation by HEWs on PPFP and use of a pictorial tracking tool as job aide
Yes No
  • PPFP discussed during existing monthly meetings with HEWs and supportive supervision visits
Yes No
Home
  • Health centers and health posts given modified tetanus toxoid cards for mothers to document her method choice and improve efficiency of counseling and service provision after birth
Yes No