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Empowering Healthcare Providers to Enhance Family Planning in Northern Ghana

In a significant effort to strengthen family planning services in the Northern and Savannah regions of Ghana, healthcare providers from six facilities strategically chosen, have undergone intensive training.

This training has equipped them with the knowledge and skills necessary to offer invaluable support to women and their partners in making informed decisions regarding family planning.

The intervention, a collaboration between Savana Signatures and the UK-based Maternal Health Initiative, aims at addressing the low uptake of family planning services in the two regions.

Earlier this year, Savana Signatures held a series of inception meetings with the health directorates in Tolon, Savalugu, Tamale Central, Bole, Buipe, and Salaga, where the  selected  healthcare  facilities are located.

These meetings assessed the state of family planning services in the areas and identified areas for improvement.

Women accessing postnatal and child welfare services were also actively engaged at the six health facilities, providing critical insights into the challenges they face and their aspirations for family planning services.

The primary goal was to gain a holistic understanding of the challenges and barriers that impact the effective delivery and adoption of family planning services.

Armed with this knowledge, Savana Signatures developed a comprehensive family planning service delivery manual, a tool that was used for training health professionals on standardized family planning services.

The training sessions, which took place on August 16 and 23, were conducted by Madam Hikmatu, a seasoned midwife-cum-lecturer at the Tamale Nursing and Midwifery Training College.

The training also encompassed a thorough exploration of various contraceptive methods, accompanied by strategies for effectively addressing and dispelling common myths and misconceptions that often hinder family planning adoption.

In addition to training, each of the six participating health facilities received a range of educational materials and tools to enhance family planning counselling and service delivery, complementing the efforts of healthcare staff.

Currently, a Savana Signatures team is conducting post-training assessments at the various health facilities to evaluate how healthcare   workers are delivering family planning services and to measure the intervention’s impact on family planning uptake in these districts.

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