Guinea
IntraHealth International, a Global Communities Partner, works with local partners and health workers to deliver integrated maternal, newborn and child health, nutrition, and family planning services.
IntraHealth International, a Global Communities Partner, is providing technical assistance to Guinea’s Ministry of Health to develop integration packages for each level of the health system to strengthen maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH); family planning; and nutrition services. This includes integrating tools like job aids for community health workers and facility providers, providing on-site mentoring and training to sustain health provider competencies and performance, adapting data registries and tools to prompt providers’ behavior change, and supporting development of quality standards for integrated service delivery at the national level.
To strengthen supply chain management, IntraHealth also created an interoperability software and assisted the Ministry of Health to bring the system online to allow the ministry to track products delivered to facilities and link those deliveries to the dispensing and use of products.
Current Programs
INSPiRE
Through this regional award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, IntraHealth is working to accelerate family planning uptake and improve MNCH indicators in the critical pre- and post-pregnancy period through integrated client-centered postpartum family planning (PPFP), MNCH, and nutrition services delivered at scale in Francophone West Africa. INSPiRE is demonstrating that providing a comprehensive package of essential services to mother and child during the same visit—at four entry points: antenatal care, delivery, postpartum care, and essential newborn care/Immunization — improves utilization, quality, and cost-effectiveness of services.
As of June 2025, INSPiRE’s integration model is being implemented in 14,826 health facilities in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Togo, through synergistic coordination with the Francophone Africa Regional Community of Practice for Integrated PPFP/MNCH-N, chaired by the West African Health Organization, which supports resource and partner mobilization for scale-up. Since 2019, demonstration sites of the project have seen a 275% increase in PPFP use in supported health facilities along with a 380% increase in well-baby visits for growth monitoring.
Previous Programs
Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit (OPCU)
After the pivotal family planning conference in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in 2011, multiple donors joined nine governments to initiate the Ouagadougou Partnership, committed to elevate family planning in West Africa. With support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, IntraHealth managed the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit (OPCU) from 2012 to 2022, which raised the partnership’s visibility and helped member countries develop and implement costed implementation plans for family planning. Between 2012 and 2015, the partnership was responsible for 1.18 million new users of modern family planning, a 40% regional increase. Building on this success, the nine governments embarked on an acceleration phase and had reached 7.1 million users by 2022. IntraHealth transferred the OPCU to Senegal-based Speak Up Africa in 2021.
Civil Society for Family Planning (CS4FP)
With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Dutch Embassy, the IntraHealth-led CS4FP project (2011-2020) worked with adolescents and young adults to collaboratively design solutions to improve the ability of youth to make informed decisions and better access respectful, quality family planning services. CS4FP helped establish and support national civil society coalitions for family planning in nine West African countries to raise a collective voice in planning with governments to meet family planning commitments. The project partnered with 364 youth ambassadors from five countries to reach more than 100,000 adolescents through youth-led campaigns.
Past IntraHealth Programs
- Promoting the Quality of Medicines Plus (PQM+) (USAID), 2019-2025
- Global Health Supply Chain-Procurement Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) (USAID), 2016-2022
- Global Open Facility Registry Core (Digital Square/USAID), 2018-2019
- iHRIS (European Union), 2019
Impact
100%
percentage of antenatal care visits
during which family planning counseling and nutritional advice were offered
100%
percentage of women who received
family planning services within 48 hours after giving birth with GATPA and whose newborn was breastfed within one hour of birth
100%
percentage of women admitted to CPoN who received family planning services and EI counseling