Pitch Presentation 24 Feb 2014 - Marie Stopes

Improving uptake of long-term family planning methods

Vanndeth Chheang

Marie Stopes International Cambodia

Fast pitch presentation

24th February 2014

The problem

57% of Cambodian women do not want any more children however:

• 65% of married men/women do not use a modern method of family planning (FP).

• Short-term methods of family planning are preferred by 83% of women who do use any kind of FP method

• High rates of long-term FP discontinuation or “method failure”

Development Innovations 2

Your idea – slide 1

MSIC needs a technological solution to:• Increase awareness of benefits of long-term FP• Improve uptake of long-term FP (new adopters

or switchers from short-term FP)• Remind clients to access regular check-ups of

their long-term method• Follow-up long-term FP clients (i.e. reminders

for injection, change implant/IUD etc)

Development Innovations 3

Your idea – slide 2

• Mobile phone reminders:Cost-effectiveConfidential

ᵡ People change phone numbers often

Development Innovations 4

What do you need?

• An innovative solution to reach married women

• Technology partners to develop and build the solution

• FP partner providers to support the solution and promote it

• Community members to test/pilot the solution

• Funds to develop, implement

and evaluate the solution

Development Innovations 5