MSI’s Evidence & Insights Compendium (2022)

MSI Reproductive Choices is committed to supporting the reproductive choices of everyone, everywhere, in an effective, equitable, and transformative way. To do so, it is essential that we use evidence to track best practice and ensure resources are used efficiently to maximise our impact.

As part of our 2030 strategy, MSI is committed to sharing these insights, and our quality assessment and strengthening tools. In this compendium, MSI shares the results that can be achieved when powered by data, as well as MSI’s experience of delivering services in some of the world’s most challenging environments.

The compendium includes 16 briefs, covering the following:

• La Famille Ideale: engaging husbands and communities to improve access for adolescents in the Sahel

• Convenient, discreet, easier: client feedback on telemedicine medical abortion in England

• Enabling SafeAccess: a collaborative platform to eliminate unsafe abortion

• Using provider perspectives to strengthen our SGBV training package and services

• The role of VCAT workshops in addressing provider stigma and expanding access to safe abortion care

• Choice on wheels: how a mobile bus expanded contraceptive access during the COVID-19 lockdown in Madagascar

• Nothing about us without us: designing services for and with people with disabilities

• How can we reach more clients while maintaining quality and cost efficiency on outreach?

• Combi-packs and contact centres: supporting safe self-care

• Putting marginalised voices at the centre of cervical cancer screening and prevention

• Taking care of our clients and staff: delivering excellent client-centred care

• Supporting community resilience on the frontline of the climate crisis in Zambia with reproductive choice

• Empowering adolescent girls as peer advocates for family planning: a peer referral programme in Uganda

• The Abortion Quality Index: a new metric to monitor programme quality

• What does it take to achieve a balanced method mix?

• A cross-sector partnership to improve menstrual health and increase awareness and uptake of SRH services