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DMPA-SC supportive supervision toolkit

Supportive supervision plays a critical role to ensure high-performing health workers have the appropriate knowledge, skills, and motivation in order to deliver quality family planning (FP) services and informed choice counseling. This package includes three supportive supervision tools that can be used by regional or district health teams when conducting supervision visits at health facilities that offer FP services:

  1. Supportive supervision checklist to assess provision of family planning counseling
  2. Observation checklist to assess health workers counseling clients on DMPA-SC self-injection
  3. Remote supervision of family planning providers (includes family planning and self-injection)

Tools #1 and #2 can be used together or separately, depending on whether or not the supervision visits include follow-up with providers recently trained to counsel clients on DMPA-SC self-injection.

Tool #3 is intended for use in situations where in-person supervision is not possible; the supervision exercise can be conducted through phone or video. This tool includes guidance and instructions for supervisors who plan to conduct supervision remotely.

The tools are intended to serve as guides and can be adapted for specific settings as needed. For more information, contact FPoptions@path.org.

Institutional author(s): PATH, JSI
Publication date: July, 2021

Task Sharing Family Planning Services to Increase Health Workforce Efficiency and Expand Access: A Strategic Planning Guide

The Task Sharing Strategic Planning Guide is intended to lead program managers, planners, and policymakers through a strategic process to determine if and how task sharing family planning (FP) services can be used to help achieve development goals. Task sharing is defined as the systematic redistribution of family planning services, including counseling and provision of contraceptive methods, to expand the range of health workers who can deliver services (WHO, 2017). Task sharing is a safe, effective, and efficient means to improve access to voluntary sexual and reproductive health services and reach national FP goals.

Institutional author(s): High Impact Practices in Family Planning (HIPs)
Publication date: September, 2019

Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers

WHO’s global family planning handbook provides high-quality, up-to-date guidance for health-care professionals working in low- and middle-income countries.

Institutional author(s): World Health Organization (WHO)
Publication date: June, 2018

Guide Web page

Training for Mid-Level Managers (MLM) Module 4: Supportive Supervision

This training module is part of a World Health Organization series of modules on immunization training. Supportive supervision involves supervisors and health workers working together to solve problems and improve performance. The module outlines key steps and practical implementation strategies.

Institutional author(s): World Health Organization (WHO)
Publication date: June, 2008

GATHER Guide to Counseling

This 32-page publication outlines the GATHER model of family planning counseling, which has been successfully used for nearly two decades and is based on the elements described including tips, illustrations, techniques, technical information, and charts.

Institutional author(s): Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (JHU CCP)
Publication date: December, 1998

Counseling for Choice

Counseling for Choice (C4C) is an evidence-based approach to contraceptive counseling that supports clients to decide which method is right for them. By addressing many of the root causes of unmet need for contraception and discontinuation, C4C aims to change how providers and clients participate in voluntary family planning (FP) counseling discussions. The approach comprises a thorough training in C4C techniques and the use of the Choice Book for Providers, a job aid and visual tool providers use with clients during counseling sessions.

Institutional author(s): Population Services International (PSI)
Publication date: 2021

Guide Counseling for Choice website

DMPA-SC Job Aid Pilot and Evaluation in Madagascar: Background, Results and Next Steps

With funding from the Catalytic Opportunity Fund (COF), JSI, Inc. evaluated the feasibility of using a low-cost training mechanism, known as OAS or “Orientation, Aide par Fiche Technique (job aid)”, to facilitate DMPA-SC scale-up among injection-experienced providers. It was piloted in four pilot districts in Madagascar, covering 76 basic health facilities.

Respondents had a very positive view of the OAS strategy and agreed it was a good alternative to more traditional training that can be scaled up in areas with injection experienced providers. The most significant impact of the OAS strategy has been correcting errors to ensure proper administration of DMPA-SC, thereby eliminating rumors and previous complaints.

This report covers the background, pilot and evaluation, results, and next steps relating to the OAS strategy in Madagascar.

Institutional author(s): JSI
Publication date: 2020

Supportive supervision checklist for DMPA-SC self-injection programs

This checklist is a customizable tool that can be used to monitor Subcutaneous DMPA (DMPA-SC, Sayana® Press) contraceptive self-injection programs and health worker practices. The questions can be adapted as needed to align with local program designs and guidelines. To access the MS Word version of this tool in English or French, please email FPoptions@path.org.

Institutional author(s): PATH
Publication date: August, 2020

Tool Supportive supervision checklist for DMPA-SC self-injection programs

DMPA-SC self-injection job aid and reinjection calendar for clients

This instruction sheet (job aid) and calendar are designed to help support clients learning to self-inject DMPA-SC.

Institutional author(s): PATH
Publication date: 2018