USAID Philippines ReachHealth Project: Innovation Scouting Report
USAID’s ReachHealth Project aims to respond to the unmet need for family planning (FP) in the Philippines that has led to high levels of teenage pregnancy, by improving FP knowledge on the individual, household, and community levels; increasing access to comprehensive quality care, increasing provider capacity to deliver comprehensive, quality, and respectful care; strengthening health systems; increasing demand for FP and MNH services; and transforming gender norms. The ReachHealth Project, in partnership with the Duke Global Health Innovation Center (GHIC), in order to achieve sustainability across the intersection of the project’s goals to increase healthy behaviors in underserved populations; increase access to care; and bolster health systems on the local, regional, and national levels, will include a Grand Challenge that, through the provision of grants, individualized mentorship, and strategic connections,…