IBP Approach
IBP partners agree to work collaboratively to:
- Share, adopt and utilize best practices in reproductive health.
- Support a holistic approach to improved reproductive health by focusing on identifying and strengthening programmatic and technical linkages between family planning, safe motherhood, adolescent reproductive health, prevention of gender-based violence and the integration of prevention and care of STIs/HIV.
- Develop strong partnerships between organizations that research and identify best practices in reproductive health and organizations focused on field testing and scaling up the implementation of these practices.
- Promote the use of proven effective managerial, training and performance improvement models that further develop skills to manage and lead a process of change required to improve the quality of reproductive health services.
- Encourage stakeholders and networks to review the health system from their perspective, share and build on experiences, work through problems and concerns and offer ideas for action.
- Seek to make information more accessible and create Communities of Practice (CoPs) and other expert forums in and among countries willing to gather, reflect on and share knowledge, experience, success stories and lessons learned.
At the global level, IBP partners work collaboratively to:
- Sustain and expand global and country partnerships.
- Support global programmes and initiatives.
- Gather best practices and share experiences.
- Promote the IBP Initiative's mission, vision and objectives and share this approach with their country level offices.
- Agree to an annual programme of work that is supported by each IBP partner agency.
- Work collaboratively within the partnership and with country networks to implement the programme of work.
- Study and test different approaches to knowledge sharing, adaptation, utilization and scaling up of best practices.
- Collectively prepare and publish materials and tools.
- Promote the use of each others' materials and tools.
- Provide and test models with countries.
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IBP Consortium membership may expand to include a variety of organizations and institutions in both developing and developed countries. Membership implies a commitment to support the vision goals and objectives of the IBP Initiative on a cost-sharing basis according to your means. There are two types of partners of the IBP Consortium:
- A partner of the IBP Consortium. A partner will be any agency, organization and research institute at the global regional and country level prepared to participate fully in IBP Consortium activities.
- An Affiliated Partner is an organization, agency and/or research institute unable to participate fully as a member of the IBP Consortium, but willing to contribute to specific regional and/or country activity according to their means.
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At the national level, IBP Partners work collaboratively to:
- Form Country Teams, which include all reproductive health and other multi-sector stakeholders, through the leadership of the Ministry of Health. These Country Teams not only promote the use and adaptation of global information, materials, guidelines and tools, but also encourage the analysis, use and scaling-up of effective in-country programmes and practices.
- Encourage IBP Country Team members to support their Ministry of Health and facilitate coordination by providing technical, managerial and logistical support and other resources (financial and in-kind), to constantly reinforce the goals of the IBP Initiative, monitor progress and acknowledge success and lessons learned.
- Create a knowledge sharing culture among reproductive health stakeholders to support efforts to improve access to knowledge, best practices and tools that once applied, will improve reproductive health.
At all levels, IBP partners work collaboratively to:
- Encourage collaboration and facilitate exchange.
- Expand the reach of individual IBP partners.
- Provide a support mechanism for new ways for partners and country teams to operate and maximize the effect of their projects and programmes.
- Create tangible Communities of Practice through the IBP Knowledge Gateway and other expert forums that support the sharing of knowledge, experience, success stories and lessons learned.
- Develop strong partnerships between organizations that research and identify best practices in reproductive health and organizations focused on field testing and scaling up the implementation of best practices to improve access to and the quality of reproductive health.
- Create a knowledge sharing culture among reproductive health stakeholders to support efforts to improve access to knowledge, best practices and tools that once applied, will improve reproductive health.
- Continuously monitor and assess the effect of the IBP initiative, develop case studies and respond to lessons learned.
- Form task teams from different organizations to consider global strategic, technical and managerial issues that support the introduction, utilization and scaling-up of best practices.
- Test promising ideas and innovations that eventually may become best practices.
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