“A similar trend was not seen in Lagos or other Nigerian states, suggesting the change was specific to Kano. We were the only new large scale family planning demand generation activity in the state at that time. We are working with researchers to better understand how much impact can be attributed to FEM’ campaigns. But these results are promising.”
I’m interested to hear how you might figure this out. Off the top of my head I struggle to imagine what data might help you drill down more on the cause and effect here, outside of asking women deeper questions. I wonder why PMI didn’t just ask the women as well what contributed to them starting to use family planning for the first time, obviously that data would be flawed but if a decent number said “I considered it after hearing on the radio” that would help your case.
If even half of these 250,000 new users (as a small comment it was strange that PMI had no error bars on their graphs) are due to FEM then this must be one of the most staggering results in the history of family planning interventions. I would be interested to hear if you know of any other interventions which have led to even close to that many new family planning users is a year?
The 2023 survey (which just have already been done) will surely shed more light on this as well.
And the RCT design sounds great. My instinct is to be careful about expectations from here, even if you never replicate this first year of apparently outrageous success and only produce a tenth of that impact from here on in, your approach may still be plenty cost effective enough to continue your growth trajectory.
Incredible results, great work.
“A similar trend was not seen in Lagos or other Nigerian states, suggesting the change was specific to Kano. We were the only new large scale family planning demand generation activity in the state at that time. We are working with researchers to better understand how much impact can be attributed to FEM’ campaigns. But these results are promising.”
I’m interested to hear how you might figure this out. Off the top of my head I struggle to imagine what data might help you drill down more on the cause and effect here, outside of asking women deeper questions. I wonder why PMI didn’t just ask the women as well what contributed to them starting to use family planning for the first time, obviously that data would be flawed but if a decent number said “I considered it after hearing on the radio” that would help your case.
If even half of these 250,000 new users (as a small comment it was strange that PMI had no error bars on their graphs) are due to FEM then this must be one of the most staggering results in the history of family planning interventions. I would be interested to hear if you know of any other interventions which have led to even close to that many new family planning users is a year?
The 2023 survey (which just have already been done) will surely shed more light on this as well.
And the RCT design sounds great. My instinct is to be careful about expectations from here, even if you never replicate this first year of apparently outrageous success and only produce a tenth of that impact from here on in, your approach may still be plenty cost effective enough to continue your growth trajectory.
Keto up the good work