Strengthening Gender Competency in Family Planning: Insights from Ghana on Effective Online Training Models and Tools for Providers Watch Now On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, D4I hosted a webinar about strengthening gender competency in family planning (FP) that included insights on effective online training models and tools for providers. This was the third D4I webinar about a gender competency self-assessment tool for FP providers. Gender competency is the knowledge, attitudes, and skills that can help FP providers reduce gender-related barriers for their clients. In partnership with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), D4I designed a series of workshops to examine implementation models for how to effectively train FP providers in gender competency using a self-assessment tool and eLearning course. This webinar presented the unique strengths and challenges encountered when applying the tool and eLearning course through in-person training, hybrid in-person and asynchronous training, and completely virtual training for FP providers working in Ghana’s national FP program. Insights from FP providers included valuable recommendations about training preferences and how the training content related to their work. Webinar participants learned how to design gender competency training for FP providers working in national FP programs. Watch the webinar recording and download the presentation slides. Presenter: Katherine Andrinopoulos is an activity lead with D4I and an Associate Professor in the Department of International Health and Sustainable Development at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She has 20 years of experience in applied social science research related to sexual and reproductive health including family planning and HIV. Her work focuses on mitigating the impact of gender-related barriers and stigma on health outcomes. Moderators: Evelyn Koko is a qualitative researcher with more than 27 years of hands-on market research experience. She has strategically led teams to undertake several qualitative studies in Ghana and in the West African region. She has collaborated with a number of local and international agencies (Grace Health International, eMBeD unit of The World Bank, UNAIDS, and more) to conduct social behavior and health-related studies over the years. Janna Wisniewski is an activity lead with D4I and an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health and Sustainable Development at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on health system strengthening in fragile and post-conflict settings and on how the health system contributes to health disparities. She has extensive experience in applied mixed-methods research related to health systems and service delivery in family planning.
