Task sharing for family planning services, Burkina Faso/Partage des taches dans les services de planification familiale, Burkina Faso/Distribucion de tareas para los servicios de planificacion familiar, Burkina Faso

• Published in: Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2019-11, Vol.97 (11), p.783
• Main Authors: Millogo, Tieba, Kouanda, Seni, Tran, Nguyen Toan, Kabore, Boezemwende, Keita, Namoudou, Ouedraogo, Leopold, Tall, Fatim, Kiarie, James, Thatte, Nandita, Festing, Mario, Cuzin-Kihl, Asa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Community health aides; Consortia; Family planning; Family planning services; Midwives; Nurses; Oral contraceptives
• ISSN: 0042-9686; 1564-0604
• DOI: 10.2471/BLT.19.230276

Approach Following the launch of the Ouagadougou Partnership, an alliance to catalyse the expansion of family planning services, the health ministry created a consortium of family planning stakeholders in 2011. The consortium adopted a collaborative framework to implement a pilot project for task sharing in family planning at community and primary health-care centre levels in two rural districts. Stakeholders were responsible for their areas of expertise. These areas included advocacy; monitoring and evaluation; and capacity development of community health workers (CHWs) to offer oral and injectable contraceptives to new users and of auxiliary nurses and auxiliary midwives to provide implants and intrauterine devices. The health ministry implemented supportive supervision cascades involving relevant planning and service levels. Approche Suite au lancement du Partenariat de Ouagadougou, alliance destinee a accelerer l'expansion des services de planification familiale, le ministere de la Sante a cree en 2011 un consortium d'acteurs de la planification familiale. Ce consortium a adopte un cadre collaboratif pour mettre en reuvre un projet pilote visant a partager les taches de planification familiale, aux niveaux de la communaute et des centres de soins primaires, dans deux districts ruraux. Les differents acteurs etaient responsables de leurs domaines d'expertise, parmi lesquels la sensibilisation, le suivi et revaluation, ainsi que le renforcement des competences des agents de sante communautaires, afin de proposer des contraceptifs oraux et injectables a de nouvelles utilisatrices, et des aides-soignants et sages-femmes auxiliaires, dans le but de poser des implants et des dispositifs intra-uterins. Le ministere de la Sante a mis en place des structures d'encadrement faisant intervenir les niveaux concernes de planification et de services.