Summary of Study Session 2

In Study Session 2, you have learned that:

1. The family planning service includes educational and comprehensive medical or social activities which enable individuals and couples to determine freely the number and spacing of their children, and to select the means by which this may be achieved.
2. In family planning programme implementation, there are 4 major service delivery modes. These are door-to-door service delivery, facility-based service delivery, community-based distribution (CBD) and commercial retail sales.
3. A work plan is a document developed by a manager and staff which lists all planned activities, the date on which they will occur, or by which they will be accomplished, the resources they will require, and the person who is responsible for carrying them out.
4. As part of the planning process, you need to ensure that family planning is one of the health programmes to be planned in an integrated and harmonised manner.
5. Objectives show the anticipated results of the work conducted at one or more service delivery sites, and reflect the impact or changes that are expected in the population covered by the programme.
6. Targets restate programme objectives for service delivery workers in numerical terms. They state the expected results and/or the intended activities of each service delivery component of the programme over a short time period, such as a quarter, a month, or a week.
7. Monitoring is a process by which all required data and/or information is routinely collected, analysed, used and disseminated, to check on progress towards the achievement of planned targets.
8. Supportive supervision is a process of guiding, helping, training and encouraging staff to improve their performance in terms of providing high-quality health services.
9. Programme evaluation is the systematic process of data collection, analysis and interpretation of activities and effects of a programme, or any of its components.
10. Record keeping and reporting is one way that an organisation can track patterns in contraceptive use amongst its clients. Keeping records and preparing and analysing reports are effective ways to determine clients’ needs and use patterns, without doing a formal programme evaluation.
11. Communication activities are used to promote the idea of family planning programmes, as well as educate the community about specific contraceptive methods, and the locations where services and products are available. Media and traditional forms of entertainment can be useful for transmitting this information to the community.