USAID’s LuzonHealth Project: Improving Demand for and Supply of Family Planning and Maternal, Neonatal, Child Health and Nutrition (FP/MNCHN) Services in Tarlac Province

The project focuses on increasing demand through tailored outreach activities, health events, and integration of FP and MNCHN services. Improving supply involves capacity-building interventions to help health facilities become FP/MNCHN service delivery points with trained health workers and adequate health supplies. The Community Health Service Record (CHSR) is a simplified data collection, recording, and updating tool introduced in Tarlac Province in 2014. The tool allows barangay (village) health workers to collect routine information on family planning, maternal and child health, and tuberculosis among poor households. This enables the generation of a target client list of people with unmet need for FP, MCH, and TB services. As a result, the tool has helped in significantly improving the Province's family health indicators, with the contraceptive prevalence rate increasing from 24 percent in 2013 to 51 percent in 2017. The LuzonHealth Project has implemented various key interventions and activities to increase demand, strengthen supply, and improve systems and policy. These include integrating FP and ANC messages in child immunization services, organizing Usapan sessions, promoting the use of the CHSR, supporting the training of health service providers, ensuring FP commodities are available and delivered on time, and supporting the establishment of FP in public hospitals. The project has also strengthened systems and processes key to the provision of quality services, particularly health information systems, FP logistics management, and health financing.