Co-creating the future of the CSM report

Earlier this year, RHSC & DKT International announced that RHSC would be taking over the production and dissemination of the Contraceptive Social Marketing (CSM) Report. For over 30 years, DKT International has produced the CSM Report, a valuable resource in the reproductive health community that demonstrates the impact of social marketing organizations on contraceptive access.

At the GMM, RHSC hosted a Co-Creation Session on the Future Vision of the CSM Report to better understand the ways in which members currently use the report, including what they have found to be most valuable about the CSM Report. The session reaffirmed the CSM Report’s value to the RH Supplies Community, with highlighted use cases including: market landscaping for different contraceptive methods, better understanding the method mix in different geographies, insight into the impact of SMOs globally.

This session was also intended to identify ways in which the report could be improved and to assess any challenges that members have had with the report in the past. These insights feed into a larger user-informed design process, which the Coalition will publish alongside the 2023 CSM Report.  A special thank you to DKT International for their partnership and to the many members who shared invaluable insights and perspective as RHSC takes this work forward.