Events

Home > Events > Postabortion Care (PAC) Technical Meeting "Moving Forward with Postabortion Care: Lessons Learned from Five Postabortion Care Focus Countries"

Postabortion Care (PAC) Technical Meeting "Moving Forward with Postabortion Care: Lessons Learned from Five Postabortion Care Focus Countries"

Source: http://www.popcouncil.org

Agenda for Postabortion Care (PAC) Technical Meeting
"Moving Forward with Postabortion Care: Lessons Learned from Five Postabortion Care Focus Countries"
Tuesday and Wednesday, 18 and 19 March 2008
8:30 AM–4:30 PM
Hotel Monaco, Paris Ballroom
700 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004
 

Agenda with Presentations and Related Publications/Resources

18 March
Day 1: Decentralization

8.30–9.00 am

Registration and continental breakfast

9:00–9:15 am

Introduction and opening comments
Gloria Steele, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, USAID

9:15–9:35 am

Overview of the USAID PAC strategy and GLP-funded activities (PDF)
Carolyn Curtis, Senior Clinical Specialist/Nurse Midwife, Team Leader/Postabortion Care, Bureau for Global Health, USAID

9:35–10:35 am

Country program experiences in PAC decentralization

  • Senegal (PDF)
    Saumya RamaRao, Senior Program Associate, Population Council
  • Tanzania (PDF)
    John Pile, Senior Technical Advisor for FP Services & Networks, ACQUIRE project

10:35–11:00 am

Tea/coffee break

11:00–12:30 am

Country program experience in decentralization and structured on-the-job training in Nepal (PDF)
Enriquito Lu, FP/RH Technical Director, JHPIEGO

12:30–1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30–4:00 pm

Compliance with US family planning requirements: An interactive session addressing compliance for PAC programs in varied levels of service and legal settings (PDF)
USAID/W Team

4:00 pm

Wrap-up and issues to be addressed on Day 2
Betty Farrell, Senior Medical Associate/Integration, ACQUIRE project

19 March
Day 2: Community Mobilization

8.30–9.00 am

Registration and continental breakfast

9:00–9:15 am

Introduction and day’s planned activities
Laura Raney, Program Associate, Population Council FRONTIERS Program

9:15–9:45 am

PAC community mobilization: Methodology and overview of the community action cycle (PDF)
Graciela Salvador-Davila, Senior RH/FP Advisor, Pathfinder, and Caroline Tran, Program Officer, Extending Service Delivery Project/Pathfinder

9:45–11:15 am

PAC: What’s the community got to do with it? (panel)

  • What the community is telling us about their needs in PAC: Synthesis of Phase I community action plans from Bolivia, Senegal, and Kenya (PDF)

           Carolyn Curtis, Senior Clinical Specialist/Nurse Midwife, Team  Leader/Postabortion Care, Bureau for Global Health, USAID

  • Results of implementation of the community action plans in Peru (PDF)

           Milka Dinev, Director, Extending Service Delivery Project/Pathfinder

  • Findings of the assessment of the Bolivia PAC community mobilization (PDF)

           Emma Ottolenghi

11:15–11:30 am

Tea/coffee break

11:30 am–
12:15 pm

COMMPAC/Kenya: CAC’s power to leverage support for PAC (PDF); Esther's story (PDF)
Nancy Russell, Senior Technical Advisor to Community Linkages, CARE, ACQUIRE partner

12:15–1:15 pm

Lunch and learn: Is there value in a second PAC visit? (PDF)
Lori Bollinger, PhD, Health Policy Initiative, Constella Futures

1:15–2:45 pm

Afternoon sessions

  • Community mobilization process
    Nancy Russell
  • Orientation to the Global PAC Resource Guide and Package
    Carolyn Curtis
  • The ALLOCATE model (PDF)
    Lori Bollinger
  • Structured on-the-job training
    Enriquito Lu

2:45–3:00 pm

Tea/coffee break

3:00–4:30 pm

Donor panel
Facilitator: Jeff Spieler, Senior Science Advisor, Office of Population and RH, Bureau of Global Health, USAID

4:30 pm

Wrap-up: Where to go from here?
Carolyn Curtis

Related Publications/Resources

         Senegal

  • "Assessment of the extension of postabortion care services in Senegal" (2007) (PDF)
  • "Senegal: Expand access to safe postabortion care services in rural areas" (2004) (full text)
  • “Taking postabortion care services where they are needed: An operations research project testing PAC expansion in rural Senegal” (2003) (PDF)

       Tanzania

  • "Assessing the feasibility, acceptability and cost of introducing postabortion care in health centres and dispensaries in rural Tanzania" (2007) (PDF)

       Nepal

  • "Implementation guideline of structured on-the-job-training (OJT) for postabortion care (PAC) in Nepal" (2007) (offsite PDF)
  • "Postabortion care on-the-job training: Trainer's guide" (2006) (offsite PDF)
  • "Postabortion care: A reference manual for improving quality of care" (2002) (offsite PDF)
  • "Postabortion care individual learning package: Supervisor's guide" (2002) (offsite PDF)
  • "Postabortion care on-the-job training: Trainee's guide" (2002) (offsite PDF)

        PAC community mobilization

  • "Adaptation of the Bolivia community postabortion care model in Egypt and Peru" (2006) (offsite PDF)
  • "Community PAC program/Bolivia—Self-diagnosis: Action guide for community empowerment concerning complications of hemorrhages in the first half of pregnancy: Facilitator’s manual—1st cycle of community action" (2006) (offsite PDF)
  • "How to mobilize communities for health and social change" (offsite presentation)

       Adolescents and PAC

       Results of post-meeting evaluation by attendees (2008) (PDF)

See Also

For more information contact:
Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS)
Population Council
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 280
Washington, DC 20008 USA
Telephone: +1 202 237 9400
Facsimile: +1 202 237 8410
E-mail: frontiers@popcouncil.org