We invite you to join PSI at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in Kigali, Rwanda from November 12 to 15, as we put Youth-Powered Healthcare at the forefront and share who the unlikely partners are #InMySquad. Please view our conference schedule below and join us for our more than 80 posters, presentations and other exciting events.
Events in green text have a youth focus.
Tuesday, November 13
Closing the gap on missed opportunity for provision of Family Planning to Post Abortion Care (PAC) clients in Private sector clinics
- PSI Presence: Baker Lukwago, Mariam Luyiga, Milly Kaggwa Nanyombi, Peter Buyungo, Dorothy Balaba
- Time: 8:00am – 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Integrating cervical cancer prevention services within family planning programs: Insights from the field
- PSI Presence: Heather White, PSI
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Which services best complement contraception? Making the case for integration of cervical cancer screening & preventative therapy services
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Get Smart – Learning and partnership with Ethiopia’s Health Extension Programme to re-envision contraceptive service delivery to young couples
- PSI Presence: Gabrielle Appleford, Metsehate Ayenekulu
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Engagement in Antiretroviral Treatment and Modern Contraceptive Methods among Female Sex Workers Living with HIV in Lesotho
- PSI Presence: Justine Rolfe
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Increasing Contraceptive Uptake in Zambia through Family Planning Integration
- PSI Presence: Mwanjinga Mwale, Namwinga Chintu, John Phiri, Handson Manda, Masauso Nqumayo, Eliphas Mwanza, Gracious Sishekanu, Gina M. Smith, Doris Ngosa Mwape, Gertrude Silungwe, George Kateteye
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Planning For The Future Session:
A Girl with a Plan!: Reimagining Contraceptive Services with Adolescent Girls in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania unlocks hope… and rapid contraceptive uptake
- PSI Presence: Amy Uccello, Melissa Higbie, Fatima Muhammad
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: MH 4
- Flash Speed Round
Programs to engage men in family planning session:
West Africa and the Philippines and ECOLE DES MARIS Stratégie impliquant les hommes dans la Santé de la Reproduction au Mali
- PSI Presence: Coulibaly Marie Paul, Mohamed Patrice Diallo, Alpha Keita, Madiou Sidi Koba
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: AD11
- Oral Presentation
Introduction of Depo-Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Subcutaneous Injection through Use of Community Based Distributors in Zambia
- PSI Presence: Andrianadison Elisohasina Rafalimanana; Ashley Sorgi, Amanda Kalamar, Saysana Phanalasy
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: MH3
- Flash Speed Round
Abortion and postabortion care: understanding legal contexts and women’s experiences session:
A qualitative examination of the pathway to medical abortion for women in Laos
- PSI Presence: Ashley Sorgi, Amanda Kalamar, Saysana Phanalasy
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Atrium 2
- Oral Presentation
Monitoring and evaluation methods to improve contraceptive demand and uptake session:
Challenges and opportunities in evaluating human centered design work for behavior change in adolescent sexual and reproductive health: lessons learnt from the evaluation of Adolescents 360
- PSI Presence: Aoife M Doyle
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Atrium 1
- Oral Presentation
Mapping the influences and barriers in the market that young married and unmarried Nepalese females face during their consumer journey to access FP
- PSI Presence: Lhamo Sherpa, Mahesh Paudel, Sushma Rajbanshi, Rebecca Husband
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Sante De La Reproduction Au Cameroun: Analyse De LaContribution De La Franchise Sociale A L’Atteinte Des Objectifs Du Ministere De La Sante
- PSI Presence: Marius Nkenfack Tsofack, Salifou Compaore
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Community based demand creation for family planning services among married adolescents in rural Ethiopia: evidence from PSI’s smart start model
- PSI Presence: Seyoum Atlie, Metsehate Ayenekulu, Claire Cole, Pamela A. Mallinga, Tariku Nigatu
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Being tactical from the start: How Use/Need is helping Ghana achieve its FP goals
- PSI Presence: Amy Ratcliffe, Danielle Garfinkel
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Bridging gaps in access to family planning: role of COT model in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
- PSI Presence: Pranita Achyut
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
The Ugly, the Bad and the Success of Community Gate Keepers Involvement in Promoting Adolescent’s Access to Contraceptive Services in Ede, Nigeria
- PSI Presence: Philomena Omoregie
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
- PSI Presence: Danielle Garfinkel, Katherine Thanel, Keith Esch, Endale Workalemahu, Jennifer Anyanti, Godefroid Mpanya, Amanda Kalamar, Jen Pope
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
From silos to synchronicity: Creating a transdisciplinary model to enhance AYSRH program design
- PSI Presence: Claire Cole, Fregenet Getachew, Irene Lukumay, Fatima Muhammad, Amy Elizabeth Uccello, Ahna Suleiman
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Hitting the Gas on FP2020 Goals – the role of Implants and other LARCs
- PSI Presence: Katherine Thanel, Danielle Garfinkel, Christina Riley, Keith Esch, Woldemariam Girma, Tadele Kebede, Gaby Kasongo, Amanda Kalamar, Sarah Thurston
- Time: 8:00– 11:00am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Reflecting on efforts to do AYSRH differently (and cost efficiently): Join Adolescents 360 to talk contraceptive programming for girls 15-19 in Tanzania and Ethiopia
- A360 Presenters/Authors: Edwin Mtei (PSI), Metsehate Ayenekulu (PSI), Amy Uccello (PSI), Claire Cole (PSI)
- Time: 11:30am-12:30pm
- Location: IBP Booth
- Booth Presentation
Engaging the private sector session:
Engagement of private sector increased the access of urban poor to family planning services-An experience from The Challenge Initiative for Healthy Cities (TCIHC)-India
- PSI Presence: Mukesh Sharma, Samarendra Behera, George Philip, Vivek Sharma
- Time: 11:55am-1:15pm
- Location: AD7
- Oral Presentation
Reaching the Urban Poor With FP Services session: Business Unusual Approaches Demonstrating Impact and Early Wins : Fixed Day Static (FDS) service in India
- PSI Presence: Emily Das
- Time: 11:55am-1:15pm
- Location: AD11
- Preformed Panel
Involving men in family planning via vasectomy and the standard days method session:
Bold male engagement strategy increases NSV coverage and male participation in family planning
- PSI Presence: Mukesh Sharma, Samarendra Behera, Sanjay Pandey, Vivek Sharma, Anuresh Kumar, Nitin Dwivedi
- Time: 2:35-3:55pm
- Oral Presentation
Provider behavior change for family planning choice and uptake: what are we learning? session:
Analyse des barrières à l’offre de service et étude de la déviance positive en Côte d’Ivoire, une initiative du projet Transform/PHARE
Adoption Du Dispositif Intra Uterin Par Les Clientes: Une Analyse Du Comportement Des Prestataires Dans Les Regions Septenrionales Et De L’est Cameroun
- PSI Presence: Nene Fofan, Gaby Mankie Kasongo; Laure Moukam, Salifou Compaore
- Time: 2:35-3:55pm
- Oral Presentation
The impact of an interpersonal communication intervention on knowledge, attitudes and uptake of the Maximum Diva Woman’s Condom among adolescents and young adults in urban Zambia: A randomized evaluation
- PSI Presence: Namwinga Chintu, Gina M. Smith
- Time: 3:00-6:00pm
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
The Promise of New Methods – Going Beyond “The What”: Monitoring and Evaluation Challenges for Projects Using Human-Centered Design session:
When “Tried and True” Isn’t: New Monitoring Approaches for Iterative Program Design
- PSI Presence: Melissa Higbie
- Time: 4:20-5:40pm
- Location: AD7
- Preformed Panel
Client satisfaction measurement and Redefining Quality of Care session:
Patient-Provider Trust: Findings from the Assessing Service Quality and Contraceptive Discontinuation (ASQ-D) Study in Uganda
- PSI Presence: Amanda Kalamar, Ashley Sorgi
- Time: 4:20-5:40pm
- Location: Atrium 1
- Oral Presentation
******Evening Among the Stars, 5:30-7 pm
Celebrate the stars of the Modern Contraception Movement—you! Join the ICFP organizing committee and PSI for paparazzi-filled red carpet event to honor the Lifetime Achievements of Bill Gates, Sr. and give the Future is Female award to Maverick Collective Member Jess Jacobs, an actress, speaker, advocate and co-founder of Invisible Pictures, a women-led production company.
*****The Method Remix: Not Your Mama’s After-Party, 7:00-9pm
Join Rwandan DJ and YouTube Sensation Makeda Mahadeo in a PSI and HCD Exchange-sponsored dance party and auditorium-wide interactive game! We’ll explore the major tenets of employing Human Centered Design with Adolescents and Youth for solutions in Sexual and Reproductive Health. Don’t miss the Youth Poetry Jam to introduce the Commitment to Action: Ethics in Youth-Powered Program Design. Food and drink will keep us all going following The Evening Among the Stars.
Wednesday, November 14
Evaluation de l’approche « Grin » sur la qualité des Services de Santé Adaptés aux Jeunes (SSAJ) au Mali
- PSI Presence: Amanda Kalamar, Ashley Sorgi
- Time: 8:00-11:00 am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Meeting young women where they are: probing beneath the barriers to contraceptive choice and access in South Africa
- PSI Presence: Alison Malmqvist, Noah Taruberekera
- Time: 8:00-11:00 am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Using Human Centered Design to Empower Young Girls’ Sexual; Reproductive Health in the Private Sector
- PSI Presence: Elizabeth Kemigisha, Peter Buyungo
- Time: 8:00-11:00 am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Adolescent Girls Under Siege: Understanding The Sexual Pressures of Young Women and How To Empower Them Through Sexual And Reproductive Health session:
Irrelevant, Dangerous, and at Odds with My Identity and Dreams: Qualitative research findings using human-centered methodology in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania reveal emotional dynamics complicating contraceptive use among adolescent girls
- PSI Presence: Claire Cole, Peter Buyungo
- Time: 10:25-11:45 am
- Location: Poolside Lounge
- Poster Presentation
Couples and contraception: Studies from Africa and Asia session:
Increasing Male Participation in Family Planning in Uttar Pradesh, India
- PSI Presence: Shikha Srivastava, Samarendra Behera, Vivek Sharma
- Time: 10:25-11:45 am
- Location: AD12
- Flash Speed Round
Innovation in public-private partnerships: lessons from four countries session:
Private Public Partnership to Deliver Dramatically Improved Family Planning Outcomes in Public Health Facilities in Gaza Province, Mozambique
- PSI Presence: Ryan Kelley, Loide Cossa
- Time: 10:25-11:45 am
- Location: MH1
- Oral Presentation
Innovation in public-private partnerships: lessons from four countries session:
Pratiques à risque de la contraception d’urgence traditionnelle et/ou avortement non sécurisé au Cameroun
- PSI Presence: Juliet FAI Wiykiynyuy
- Time: 10:25-11:45 am
- Location: MH4
- Flash Speed Round
Non-communicable diseases and family planning: progress and potential; Integration of cervical cancer prevention services into an existing family planning program in Uganda
- PSI Presence: Milly Kaggwa Nanyombi,
Baker Lukwago, Paul Blumenthal, Heather White (PSI) - Time: 10:25-11:45 am
- Location: AD5
- Oral Presentation
The role of religious leaders in family planning session:
Les Religieux s’engagent dans la promotion de la planification familiale au Bénin : Une expérience réussie
Plaidoyer en Faveur du Planning Familial a Travers les Leaders Religieux: Une Riche Experience au Nord Cameroun
- PSI Presence: Mbolatiana Razafimahefa
Baker Lukwago, Paul Blumenthal, Heather White (PSI) - Time: 10:25-11:45 am
- Location: MH3
- Oral Presentation
Increasing family planning uptake: learning from a failed Somali healthcare worker confidentiality training
- PSI Presence: Salifou Compaore
- Time: 11:30-2:30 am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
- PSI Presence: Jacky Raharinjatovo, Noah Taruberekera, Faith Park, Elmard Rabotovaosolo, Ryan Rego, Cellin Jimmy Ramahavory, Andrianadison Elisohasina Rafalimanana
- Time: 11:30-2:30 am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Toll free line to increase and facilitate access to SRHR information by youth in fragile context
- PSI Presence: Odette Hekster
- Time: 11:30-2:30 am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
- PSI Presence: Odette Hekster
- Time: 11:30-2:30 am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Scaling up high impact interventions for family planning – an experience from The Challenge Initiative for Healthy Cities (TCIHC) – India
- PSI Presence: Mukesh Sharma, Sanjay Pandey, Deepti Mathur, Pranita Achyut, Vivek Sharma
- Time: 11:30-2:30 am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Assessing client satisfaction of safe medical abortion services through a private franchise in Cambodia
- PSI Presence: James Ayers, Meredith Center, Sotheary Khim
- Time: 11:30-2:30 pm
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Increasing Access and Uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Among Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa session:
“If You’re Not at the Table… You’re on the Menu: Positive Youth Development in Adolescent360”
- PSI Presence: Amy Ucello
- Time: 11:55 am-1:15 pm
- Location: MH3
- Flash Speed Round
The Blossoming of Implant Use in Africa session:
How It Happened and What Lies Ahead; Insights from Implant Users, and the Future of Consumer-focused Implant Services
- PSI Presence: James Ayers, Meredith Center, Sotheary Khim
- Time: 11:55 am-1:15 pm
- Location: MH2
- Preformed Panel
The role of the private sector in family planning programming session:
Helping private provider networks develop health financing options and contribute to national FP and UHC agendas: experiences from Cambodia, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda
- PSI Presence: Rebecca Husband, Pierre Moon
- Time: 11:55 am-1:15 pm
- Location: MH2
- Preformed Panel
******Commitment to Action: Ethics in Youth-Powered Program Design, 2:30-3:15pm
Come to the official launch of PSI and the HCD Exchange’s Commitment to Action: Ethics in Youth-Powered Program Design with the statement’s initial signors. This press-moderated roundtable discussion will explore the responsibilities of bringing the human-centered design process to vulnerable populations like Youth and Adolescents. We’ll discuss how to conduct this cutting-edge research underpinned with respect, justice and safeguards to ensure practitioners do no harm. Learn more and sign on if you haven’t already.
Understanding socio-cultural barriers to family planning use session:
Effects of Socio-cultural factors on Family Planning use in Somaliland
- PSI Presence: Rebecca Husband, Pierre Moon
- Time: 2:35-3:55 pm
- Location: MH3
- Flash Speed Round
Gender, empowerment, and family planning session:
Linking financial skills with mentorship increases Contraceptive uptake among married adolescent girls in Northern Nigeria
- PSI Presence: Fifi Oluwatoyin Ogbondeminu, Otsanya Joy Ede, Anthony Idialu Ehon
- Time: 2:35-3:55 pm
- Location: MH4
- Flash Speed Round
Teaching old data new tricks: innovative analyses to build the family planning knowledge base session:
How do women experience and react to side effects? Comparing method switchers, discontinuers and continuous users.
- PSI Presence: Amanda Kalamar
- Time: 2:35-3:55 pm
- Location: AD5
- Oral Presentation
Increasing Access to Safe Abortion in Laos through Landmark Clinical Guidelines
- PSI Presence: Eric Seastedt
- Time: 3:00-6:00 pm
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
It’s NORMAL! New Counseling Tool Addresses Menstrual Bleeding Changes Associated with Use of Contraception
- PSI Presence: Laura Glish
- Time: 3:00-6:00 pm
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Utilizing an Android-based Application to Improve Family Planning Quality of Care in Kenya’s Tunza Franchise Network
- PSI Presence: Job Makoyo, Janet Patry, Christine Bixiones, Paul Blumenthal
- Time: 3:00-6:00 pm
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Harnessing the power of digital health session:
Availing comprehensive information on contraception using an on-demand mobile information service in Uganda
- PSI Presence: Job Makoyo, Janet Patry, Christine Bixiones, Paul Blumenthal
- Time: 4:20-5:40 pm
- Location: AD7
- Oral Presentation
Quality improvement in family planning session:
Improving Client Service Experience and Satisfaction Through E-System Based Support Supervison- The HNQJS Story
- PSI Presence: Moses Odot
- Time: 4:20-5:40 pm
- Location: Atrium 2
- Oral Presentation
Women’s Self-Care in Sexual and Reproductive Health session: New Options, New Evidence:
Consumer powered healthcare: Home-based medication abortion
- PSI Presence: James Ayers
- Time: 4:20-5:40 pm
- Location: MH2
- Preformed Panel
Reaching Millennials: How to Capture Their Attention and Increase Family Planning Use session:
What does it take? Operational, cultural, and structural ingredients necessary to design for girl-centered care
Why Brands Matter: A Makeover for AYSRH
- PSI Presence: Edwin Mtei, Madeleine Moore, Pamela A. Mallinga; Tigist Urgessa, Otsanya Joy Ede, Melissa Higbie, Claire Cole
- Time: 4:20-5:40 pm
- Location: MH4
- Flash Speed Round
Understanding, influencing, and shifting contraceptive method mix session:
Shifting the Family Planning Method Mix Needle in Zambia – The Sexual and Reproductive Health for All Initiative (SARAI)
- PSI Presence: Namwinga Chintu, John Phiri, Doris Ngosa Mwape, Gertrude Silungwe, George Kateteye, Fleix Tembo, Masauso Nqumayo, Gina Smith
- Time: 4:20-5:40 pm
- Location: Atrium 3
- Oral Presentation
Thursday, November 15
Reducing Out-of-pocket Expenditure to reach Adolescents with Family Planning Services – Experiences from a Pilot Project in Yangon, Myanmar
- PSI Presence: May Me Thet, Swai Mon Oo, Phyo Myat Aung, Myint Myint Win, Manuela Tolmino
- Time: 8:00-11:00 am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Harnessing Technology to get Upclose with Family planning communication agents: Improving Quality and Outcomes of IPC agents through E-supervision
- PSI Presence: Baker Lukwago, Peter Buyungo, Henry Kaula
- Time: 8:00-11:00 am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Fixing day for family planning services increase the number of additional family planning users at scale in Urban India
- PSI Presence: Nitin Dwivedi, Mukesh Sharma, Samarendra Behera, Vivek Sharma, Sanjay Pandey
- Time: 8:00-11:00 am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
Demystifying counseling on contraception among adolescent girls in South Western Nigeria through individualized counseling increases adoption
- PSI Presence: Fifi Oluwatoyin Ogbondeminu, Otsanya Joy Ede, Anthony Idialu Ehon, Fatima Muhammad
- Time: 8:00-11:00 am
- Location: Auditorium Terrace
- Poster Presentation
No secrets in this house: Parental support for family planning session:
‘From barriers to allies’: supporting parents to create pathways to adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health in urban and peri-urban settings of Tanzania
- PSI Presence: Arnold Kabahaula, Claire Cole, Edwin Mtei, Phillipo Issabu
- Time: 10:25-11:45 am
- Location: Atrium 3
- Oral Presentation
Parental consent: A hindrance or catalyst to adolescent’s access to contraception in Lagos State, Nigeria
- PSI Presence: Fifi Oluwatoyin Ogbondeminu
- Time: 10:25-11:45 am
- Location: Atrium 4
- Oral Presentation
Data for targeted decision making session:
Repositioning contraception – using segmentation to target the right narratives to the right audiences
- PSI Presence: Edwin Mtei, Madeleine Moore
- Time: 11:55-1:15 am
- Location: AD9
- Oral Presentation
Family planning integration across sectors session:
Evidence-based and co-created: Youth-adult partnership to reduce unmet need for contraception among married girls in rural Ethiopia
- PSI Presence: Bethlehem Mulushoa, Claire Cole, Metsehate Ayenekulu, Mary Phillips
- Time: 11:55-1:15 am
- Location: AD12
- Flash Speed Round
