What is this intervention?

• Community involvement is key to increase women’s access to FP. It can involve training community health workers (CHWs) on PPFP, LAM and the benefits of healthy spacing of pregnancy. In addition to counseling, CHWs may provide commodities and refer clients. 
• Work is often done through community action groups with both men and women to promote healthy spacing of pregnancies through FP before couples conceives again.
• Religious leaders may be involved in identifying passages in religious texts that promote couples to wait until their child is walking or no longer breastfeeding before they conceive again.

Why is it needed?

• Many women are not free to leave their homes and communities to come to clinics to obtain methods.
• Community leaders can explain the benefits of healthy spacing of pregnancy through FP in culturally appropriate ways that are easier for community members to understand.
• Community members are encouraged to actively finding solutions to some of their own health problems.

Countries with  MCHIP Community Involvement activities: Liberia, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Nigeria