A training workshop on strengthening family planning services through evidence-based guidelines and best practices was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, in Tunis, Tunisia, from 13 to 16 November 2016. The workshop was attended by 53 participants including 18 Member States and representatives from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), National Board for Family and Population, Tunisia, and WHO. The workshop aimed to share family planning programmatic and managerial practices and approaches to help improve quality of, access to, and demand for effective family planning programmes.
The specific objectives of the workshop were to:
• train national reproductive health and family planning programme managers on the updated WHO technical guidelines on family planning;
• train managers on scaling up family planning best practices;
• develop managers’ skills in integrating a family planning component within national reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) strategic plans;
• determine key actions necessary to implement family planning guidelines and best practices.
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