Number of community-based family planning providers trained

Data Requirement(s):

Number of people trained (based on an actual list of names for potential verification purposes), their professional positions or community affiliation (e.g. nurse-midwife, religious leader, youth group member), sex, and training topic.

Data Source(s):

Records, usually kept by the training organizer or training organization, which may be used both for administrative and monitoring purposes at a later date

Purpose:

One way to increase access to FP at the community level is to train community-based providers in FP. By gathering data on number of community-based FP providers trained, it presents a measure of how many community-based FP providers are active in a given program or area, which is an indication of how robust a FP program is at the community level.

Issue(s):

Counting “number trained” alone does not capture knowledge.  It is important that this indicator is complimented with an indicator that assesses competency or mastery of knowledge and/or skills.  An example would be, Number of community-based family planning providers trained who have mastered relevant knowledge.

References:

The ACQUIRE Project/Engenderhealth.  Programming for Training:A Resource Package for Trainers, Program Managers, and Supervisors of Reproductive Health and Family Planning Programs. 2008.