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Thank you for your interest in the ACQUIRE Project. Please be advised that the project ended in 2008. For information about our new project to increase the use of high-quality family planning services, please visit us at www.respond-project.org

The ACQUIRE Project Digital Archive is available online!

ACQUIRE End-of-Project Event
On September 17, 2008, The ACQUIRE Project held its end-of-project event. The participants, over 100 dedicated professionals from the reproductive health/family planning community, learned about and discussed effective program approaches and tools-and remaining challenges-for revitalizing family planning, with a focus on underutilized long-acting and permanent methods of contraception (LAPMs) and other reproductive health issues. This engaging event combined plenary and interactive break-out sessions, as well as a an informative lunchtime theater.

ACQUIRE's Project Director, Lynn Bakamjian, provided the keynote address summarizing the major lessons learned titled "The Seven Effective Habits of Programming for More Services to More People in More Places."

The first plenary session featured experiences and lessons learned from putting ACQUIRE's "Supply-Demand-Advocacy" Model into action in Kenya.
Concurrent breakout sessions provided an opportunity to learn about tools, approaches, and country applications in three priority areas:

Planning for LAPM Programs: The Science and Art of Reality √
Addressing the Family Planning Needs of People Living with HIV: What Do Systems Have to Do with Integration?
Engaging Boys and Men in Reproductive Health: A Gender Transformative Approach

The lunchtime theater showcased three priority segments: 1) A tour of the new -Resource Package for Family Planning and Beyond: ACQUIRE-s Digital Archive- (complete with 70 products for use in field programming); 2) ACQUIRE Communication Highlights and Lessons Learned (documenting integrated demand campaigns in Ghana, Bangladesh and Azerbaijan); and 3) Community Engagement: Telling the Story - Beyond the Data (highlighting champions in Nepal)
The closing speech, Back to the future: A Call to Action for FP and LAPMs, delivered by Dr. Scott Radloff, Director of the Office of Population and Reproductive Health, issued a call to action to support long-acting and permanent methods of contraception in order to meet the needs of women and men around the world.

We, the entire ACQUIRE Project Team, are pleased to have had the opportunity to share our knowledge and experiences with the RH/FP community and encourage everyone to draw upon the resources generated by the project. And keep in mind, the Digital Archive will be updated between now and the end of this calendar year and it will remain live. It-s a resource for you and for all of us in the community. The agenda for this event and the presentations that were delivered are available here.

Programming for Training: A Resource Package for Trainers, Program Managers, and Supervisors of Reproductive Health and Family Planning Programs
Training is an essential component of service delivery; it can close gaps in knowledge, skills, and attitudes of reproductive health/family planning providers and can help to increase the availability of services. However, while training is often needed to increase the availability and quality of services, it usually cannot accomplish this alone, nor does training by itself necessarily produce more motivated and active service providers. This resource package provides an overall approach to programming for training, as well as information, methods, and tools for designing,developing, planning, implementing, and evaluating training. It also provides tools and information for strengthening training systems. (2008) Read more>>> (PDF, 2.6MB)

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What is the ACQUIRE Project?

The ACQUIRE Project is a five-year global cooperative agreement funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that works to advance and support the use of voluntary reproductive health and family planning services in health care facilities around the world.