19/11/2020
Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council train CBD Supervisors in Youth Friendly Service Provision
The emergence of Covid 19 and subsequent containment measures led to stagnation of family planning and reproductive health services provision as clinics and hospitals scaled down operations. Furthermore, the containment measures limited movement for most individuals, especially youth, to access all important sexual and reproductive health services.
Through Community Base Distributors, Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council was able to continuously assist the public in terms of family planning and reproductive health services and the cadres were important in reaching out to youths during these times.
Noticing a gap in youth friendly service provision, ZNFPC supported by International Planned Parenthood Federation developed video packages to train Community Based Distributor Supervisors in Youth Friendly Service Provision. The training was an all-important activity in the CBD program as it enabled CBDs to be youth compliant in terms of giving services to young people who were not their target group before the outbreak of Covid 19.
All Council provinces took their CBD supervisors through the training in very small groups. Courses covered included; Youth Friendly Service Provision Guidelines/ Standards, Youth Friendly Service Provision, Interpersonal Communication and Covid 19 Prevention.
The Council procured tablets in which the videos were loaded for CBDs to always refer when dealing with youths. The tablets are also important in family planning and reproductive health data capturing, management and transmission to provincial offices, cutting on transport cost in as far as data submission is concerned.