Family Planning Voices

"The Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project and FP2020 created Family Planning Voices (#FPVoices) to document and share real stories from real people around the world who are passionate about family planning."

This digital initiative resource records faces and stories of family planning efforts in order " to forge connections among the global health community and share the incredible positive impact family planning has on individuals and communities." Launched in 2015,  the website continues to publish stories, more than 600 from 50 countries (2019), including "individuals like Mary Wanjiku Mwangi, a young woman from Kenya who works with young people in Nairobi slums to increase demand for family planning; Dahlia Naswasi, an Indonesian midwife who promotes vasectomy in her district; and Easmon Otpuri,who campaigned to improve access to vasectomy services for young men in Ghana." 

The intent of the site is:

"1. To put the global family planning community’s work in human terms by relating the

personal stories of program implementers, supporters, and clients around the world.

2. To strengthen the capacity of stakeholders to continue the initiative and share their own communities’ stories.

3. To drive global momentum around the family planning movement and help build a

stronger sense of community." 

Included along with the story collection are:

• a storytelling kit that includes a do-it-yourself guide, questions and a release and consent form for interviewing;
• a press kit for journalists; 
• a communications toolkit with materials for sharing the initiative incljuding visual images, social media posts, Facebook posts, and Twitter posts available for use; and
• a 2017 assessment of the project "to measure the effect of a narrative on ideational variables such as knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy, as well as behaviors", with recommendations for the second phase. The assessment concluded that: "FP Voices positively affected knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, knowledge application, and collaboration."