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This brief focuses on the following points: Peer education can be an effective way to improve youth reproductive and sexual health outcomes (unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV). Greater exposure and improved outcomes are associated with the quality of peer education programs. Programs should ensure high quality by emphasizing adequate training, retention efforts, monitoring and evaluation, curriculum/structure, and meaningful youth involvement.  

This brief focuses on the following points: Risk communication is central to informed decision-making. Guidelines exist to help programs and providers present risk information clearly and effectively. People under stress typically want to know that you care before they care about what you know. People under stress typically have difficulty hearing, understanding, and remembering information.  

This brief focuses on the following points: Planning is the key to a successful tuberculosis (TB) communication program or activity. Choose a format for contact with the media that best fits your audience and message. Identify the SOCO (“single overriding communication objective”) that you want your audience to remember. Identify and train a spokesperson to represent your program to the media.  

Increasingly, donors and national governments are asking local governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), private-sector companies, and communities to take more responsibility for supporting health care programs at the local level. While it is natural to think in terms of funding, there are other equally important material and in kind resources that can be locally mobilized. These can include human resources, space, pharmaceuticals, advocacy, and transportation.

This brief discusses the following key points: View FGC in terms of gender, human rights, and child protection. Address FGC holistically, within a community development strategy, using culturally sensitive and non-judgmental approaches. Engage a wide range of participants and stakeholders. Improve the infrastructure and support for women's health care.  

This brief focuses on the following key points: A shortage of human resources for health (HRH) threatens the health care delivery system in many countries, particularly in Africa. Promising practices to strengthen HRH include workforce planning, task shifting, strengthening HR information and management systems, promoting retention and gender equity, and establishing partnerships.  

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This brief discusses the following points: A positive work climate leads to and sustains employee motivation, high performance, and better results in health care. Good leadership and management practices contribute to a positive work climate.  

Government and donor funds fail to meet growing demands for reproductive health care in the public sector. Strategies to support such services include:

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This brief focuses on the following points: Alliances need to evolve at a pace that builds trust and cohesion. Successful alliances balance effective decision-making with broad participation. Alliances are most effective when they have a fully funded Secretariat. 

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Evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Ghana demonstrate that rapid uptake and sustained use of modern family planning methods can occur in even the most poor, resource-strapped, and largely rural countries.

This brief focuses on the following points: Experience shows that long-lasting change can result when health care managers incorporate success factors in their planning and implementation of new practices. Health care managers will run into fewer obstacles in initiating changes if they follow a five-phase process to identify, test, and scale up new practices.

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Many countries face the challenge of meeting people’s needs for contraceptives, including condoms, on a sustainable basis. Programmatic experience in several countries has pointed to some “ready lessons” that can be applied to improve contraceptive security.

Increasingly, family planning and other health care organizations in developing countries must do more with the same or reduced resources. To cope, organizations can make simple changes in the way work is organized—changes that can help them serve clients better, offer more satisfying work to the staff, operate more effectively, and become more efficient.