Year 1 – Quarter 1 Report: Amplification de la Santé de la Reproduction et de Planification Familiale” (AmplifyPF)

The project focuses on Burkina Faso, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire, and Togo, with four interrelated objectives guiding all project activities and interventions. These objectives are: Strengthen and institutionalize a system for adaptation and replication of key family planning high impact practices (Replication). Engage and leverage domestic, donor, and West African communities and resources to build sustainability and scale of selected HIPs (Scale & Sustainability). Institutionalize a sustainable and self-regulating system of service quality assurance and monitoring (Quality Assurance). Collaborate and coordinate with other USAID FP/RH partners working on commodity security, demand creation, policy, learning, and related health systems (Collaboration & Coordination). During the first quarter of the project, Amplify PF completed crucial start-up steps, including the onboarding of key staff, preparation and submission of the project's first annual workplan, introductory visits to present the project to the Ministry of Health and key RH/FP actors in the target countries, and meetings with USAID mission health teams to demonstrate how Amplify PF fits into their mission country priorities. The project also undertook key activities during the startup phase, including a 3-day work planning workshop held in Togo from September 12-14, 2018. This workshop enabled the four countries covered by Amplify PF to develop their draft 2018-2019 work plans based on the key activities each country has selected for the first year of the project. Meetings with key technical and financial partners (TFPs) were also conducted in each of the target countries. These meetings aimed to engage and leverage domestic, donor, and West African communities and resources to build sustainability and scale of selected HIPs. Key TFPs met per country included JHPIEGO Project, TCI Project, UNFPA, USAID, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), CRESAC, SWEDD Project, WHO, and World Bank. The project also presented Amplify PF to stakeholders in the conference room of Pathfinder Niger country Office on September 4, 2018. Meetings in Togo have not taken place yet due to registration issues, but actions are being undertaken with the support of USAID/RHO to facilitate the meetings with key partners as well as health authorities in the upcoming quarter. The project's goal is to mobilize partners to expand access to and utilization of quality family planning services in the West Africa region. The project's objectives and activities aim to strengthen and institutionalize a system for adaptation and replication of key family planning high impact practices, engage and leverage domestic, donor, and West African communities and resources, institutionalize a sustainable and self-regulating system of service quality assurance and monitoring, and collaborate and coordinate with other USAID FP/RH partners.