Taking stock: protocol for evaluating a family planning supply chain intervention in Senegal

Cavallaro, F L, Duclos, D, Baggaley, R, Penn-Kekana, L, Goodman, C, Vahanian, A, Santos, A C, Bradley, J, Paintain, L, Gallien, J, Gasparrini, A, Hasselback, L and Lynch, C A (2016) Taking stock: protocol for evaluating a family planning supply chain intervention in Senegal. Reproductive Health, 13 (45). pp. 1-14. ISSN 1742-4755

Abstract

In Senegal, only 12 % of women of reproductive age in union (WRAU) were using contraceptives and another 29 % had an unmet need for contraceptives in 2010–11. One potential barrier to accessing contraceptives is the lack of stock availability in health facilities where women seek them. Multiple supply chain interventions have been piloted in low- and middle-income countries with the aim of improving contraceptive availability in health facilities. However, there is limited evidence on the effect of these interventions on contraceptive availability in facilities, and in turn on family planning use in the population. This evaluation protocol pertains to a supply chain intervention using performance-based contracting for contraceptive distribution that was introduced throughout Senegal between 2012 and 2015.