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Following village-level budget advocacy efforts led by district working groups, 364 additional villages in Indonesia took the initial step to allocate local funding for family planning. In Karanganyar district (162 villages), the Mayor signed an endorsement letter for Village Heads on January 27, 2015, to allocate for family planning, particularly long-acting permanent methods (LAPM).
Advance Family Planning’s (AFP’s) eight new case studies illustrate the advocacy efforts leading to “quick wins” (discrete policy or funding advancements) achieved in the last year.
Originally posted on Knowledge for Health by Sarah V. Harlan, Senior Program Officer/Learning Director, JHU-CCP
November 26, 2014
"We are not alone. We can learn from each other." -- Member of district working group in Tuban, East Java (and participant at the ICMM/AFP knowledge-sharing meeting)
By Hari Fitri Putjuk, Center for Communications Programs Indonesia
Developing countries aiming to build strong family planning programs often look to Indonesia as a model — and with good reason.
On August 9th, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health signed a collaboration memorandum with BKKBN (Indonesia’s National Population and Family Planning Board) to formalize its partnership and recognize a new collaboration for improving research, policies and practice in family planning and reproductive health.
Indonesian government leaders will reaffirm their commitment to family planning at a special summit this week commemorating World Contraception Day, recognized annually on September 26th. Leaders will present a new government framework intended to increase access and quality of family planning services.