The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition commissioned the USAID │Health Policy Initiative, Task Order 1 to develop "Leading Voices in Securing Reproductive Health Supplies: An Advocacy Guide and Toolkit" to enhance the ability of its members and partners to successfully advocate for improving the availability of contraceptives and other reproductive health supplies for people who want and need them.
The authors of this guide and toolkit include (listed alphabetically): Laurette Cucuzza, Anne Jorgensen, Elaine Menotti, Tanvi Pandit-Rajani, and Suneeta Sharma from the USAID | Health Policy Initiative (HPI).
The guide and toolkit were developed with the contributions and assistance of several members of the Coalition’s Resource Mobilization and Awareness Working Group, the Market Development Approaches Working Group, and the Systems Strengthening Working Group.
Valuable resources from various organizations helped make this possible. Sources for technical information include the Task Order 1 of the USAID│Health Policy Initiative (and its predecessor POLICY Project), the DELIVER Project, Population Action International (PAI), the Supply Initiative and the International AIDS Alliance.
Many people contributed to the guide’s development. Imelda Zosa-Feranil of the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) and others authored HPI’s "Contraceptive Security Supplement of Networking for Policy Change: An Advocacy Manual", upon which the advocacy guide and toolkit is based.
Terri Bartlett, Carolyn Vogel, Tamar Abrams, and Elizabeth Leahy from Population Action International (PAI) provided valuable assistance and technical reviews. Joan Robertson and Alan Bornbusch from USAID; Carolyn Hart and Marie Tien from John Snow, Inc.; and Kechi F. Ogbuagu, Jagdish Upadhyay, and Danièle Landry-Mugengana from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) provided helpful suggestions and guidance as representatives of Coalition working groups. Danielle Grant (CEDPA), Carol Shepherd (Futures Group International), and William Winfrey (Futures Institute) of the Health Policy Initiative; and Ketayoun Darvich-Kodjouri of CEDPA provided technical reviews of the guide and advocacy tools. Lori Merritt (Futures Group International) edited the guide.
Finally, Margaret Neuse and Scott Radloff from USAID provided invaluable leadership and support to our work.
Recommended Citation:
USAID │Health Policy Initiative, Task Order 1. 2007. Leading Voices in Securing Reproductive Health Supplies: An Advocacy Guide and Toolkit. Brussels, Belgium. Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.
