"This tool is designed to help assessment teams, project managers, supervisors, and providers collect detailed information on the quality of Postabortion Care (PAC) services provided to adolescents at a given facility in order to make services more youth-friendly. "...[It] was developed as part of Pathfinder International’s Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care (YFPAC) Project which was implemented in eight sub-Saharan African countries: Angola, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda from June 2007 to May 2008"
This training manual is to help prepare local government health teams to use evidence-based methods to develop long-term plans to strengthen their Reproductive Health programmes and to actively involve participants in the learning process. There is an insistence on the systematic use of local and national data, statistics, and policies to develop an appropriate response; and a recognition that because local governments in most countries develop plans in the context of competing priorities for a limited budget, plans are only as good as the local government health department’s ability to defend them