Ecuador : family planning program

USAID/Ecuador will finance a major portion of APROFE"s and CEMOPLAF"s operating costs for the next 3 years to enable them to continue to provide reproductive health services and family planning in particular. In response to this assistance, each NGO will commit itself to deposit a previously agreed amount of program income generated through the provision of family planning and other services into a sustainability fund. The activities to be carried out by APROFE under this results package fall under three strategies: information, motivation, education and training; health care services, including ambulatory, surgical, and community services, and a mobile clinic; and institutional strengthening, which includes sustainability undertakings, e.g., sale of training services, clinical laboratories, mini-pharmacies, and sonograms. CEMOPLAF activities will also fall under three categories: coverage for all medical services, including community based distribution and social marketing; sustainability, which includes social marketing, clinical laboratories, sonograms, colposcopy, mini- pharmacies, public relations and fund raising; and institutional strengthening, which includes administration, information, education and communication, training, research, monitoring, and evaluation. Field support will be provided by JHPIEGO, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University; CEPAR, an Ecuadorian NGO; and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).