MSI’s Evidence & Insights Compendium (2025)

MSI Reproductive Choices harnesses the power of our evidence eco-system, continuously testing the effectiveness of our approaches to better serve those in need, and sharing insights with others.

It’s critical that we use our evidence and insights to track best practice and ensure resources are used efficiently to maximise our impact.

We’re proud to share our latest compendium of evidence-based programmatic learnings, based on MSI’s experience of delivering services in partnership with governments and in some of the world’s most challenging environments.

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The compendium includes a foreword from our Director of Evidence & Impact and 17 briefs, covering the following:

• MSI’s evidence ecosystem: Turning data into insights into action

• Working with community volunteers to engage men and encourage shared decision-making (Ethiopia)

• Building sustainability in our healthcare centres to support long-term access

• The critical role of maternity hospitals in ensuring access to surgical abortion care (Ethiopia & Ghana)

• Supporting community health workers in Sierra Leone to expand access to contraception

• Straight Talking Big Sisters: Expanding access to sexual and reproductive healthcare for young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo

• How we’re engaging community leaders to expand access to reproductive choice

• Listening to our clients: using feedback to improve the delivery of client centred sexual and reproductive healthcare

• Reaching underserved communities with government-led outreach services in Nigeria

• Integrating climate resilience initiatives into sexual and reproductive health and rights programmes

• From digital support to our blue door: Building a better client journey

• Empowering youth champions to address gender and social norms affecting young people’s reproductive agency in Kenya

• Addressing reproductive health needs with innovative health financing in Malawi

• The role of reproductive health services in Ethiopia’s humanitarian response

• Lessons learned from a respectful maternity care training evaluation in Kenya and Tanzania

• The availability of sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian settings (Kenya)

• Partnering with the Ugandan government to expand contraceptive choice

• Teleconsultation services to drive increased access to healthcare

• Supplementary resources

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