Jhpiego is working with BKKBN, Indonesia’s national family planning board, to strengthen its capacity to lead Indonesia’s family planning agenda. This work includes partnering with BKKBN’s leadership, technical managers and supply chain experts on strategy, priority setting and implementation. To help ensure that BKKBN can continue this important work after project completion, Jhpiego is combining formal and informal capacity-strengthening opportunities to: 1) reinforce the provision of postpartum family planning (PPFP), specifically long-acting, reversible contraception; 2) test and train PPFP counselors; 3) cultivate advocates within the obstetrician/gynecologist community in Indonesia to publicly support long-acting, reversible contraception and promote a culture of informed choice and respectful care among clients; 4) ensure that contraceptive supplies are available at the point of service; and 5) certify midwives and other providers in PPFP.

With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Merck for Mothers, Jhpiego is conducting operations research that will advance learning around the provision, uptake and continuation of the full range of contraceptives offered in the immediate post-pregnancy period in the public and private for-profit sectors in Indonesia and Kenya. The primary goal is to generate actionable evidence to be used to improve programmatic activities to address post-pregnancy family planning in the public and private for-profit sectors.