Abstract:
Introduction; The government through its councils wants to put an emphasis on training health care providers on family planning in the implementation of family planning program. The main objective of this study is to assess the training on long term methods of family planning to skilled health care provider to reach the family planning National target.
Methodology; The study included 10 health facilities (1 private hospital, 3 public Health Centers and 6 public Dispensaries). In-depth Interviews (IDIs) were conducted to all 10 RCH in charges from 10 facilities and 1 Focus Group Discussion were conducted to 6 members from Council Health Management Team (CHMT) who were DRCHCo, DHS, DHIS2 Coordinator, BRN coordinator DNO and CBHCo.
A cross sectional design was used in evaluating this program using purposive sampling methods. Data was collected through Focus Group Discussions where by 6 members of CHMT were involved in FGD and in-depth interviews for Council Health Management Teams and RCH in charges. Phenomenological and narrative analysis was used to explore individual and group experience with the help of Atlas.ti software.
Findings; The findings show that family planning is conducted as it planned and the family planning health care providers are trained on the provision of long term methods of family planning methods. But there are inadequate documentations for the training conducted on who have been trained, what methods were used, where the training was conducted and who funded it. Also training on long acting methods of family planning is offered through the MoHCDGEC and Boresha Afya with full package according to the family planning teaching module.
Conclusion; The provision of long term methods of family planning training to skilled health care providers is of great impact on the process of reaching the National target. Follow up should be done to those who are trained and proper documentation should be made.
