Knowledge Hub

To support reproductive health advocates across the globe, Global Doctors for Choice (GDC) has gathered resources related to advocacy with the aim of influencing policies, guidelines, and laws to improve access to care.

Please note that this is not a comprehensive list and does not necessarily reflect GDC’s position. We will continue to gather and add resources, and invite you to contact us to suggest resources.

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Access to Safe Abortion: A Tool for Assessing Legal and Other Obstacles

Date: May 2012 Topics: Political Mapping Resource Types: Publications

This assessment tool can be used to help identify and analyze legal and other obstacles in a country or setting that make access to safe abortion difficult or nearly impossible. This resource is available in English, French, and Arabic.

The Abortion Option: A Values Clarification Guide for Health Professionals

Date: 2005 Topics: Abortion Stigma Info & Mitigation Resource Types: Trainings

These exercises are "designed to help health care professionals to clarify their personal values about pregnancy options and abortion, and to think about those values in the context of their professional roles and responsibilities. This guide can be used by individuals or in groups and is appropriate for the wide range of health care professionals who provide care to women experiencing unintended pregnancies.”

Abortion Care for Young Women: A Training Toolkit

Date: 2011 Topics: Advocacy Tools Resource Types: Trainings

"This toolkit is designed to provide information and guidance on delivering and ensuring access to appropriate induced abortion care for young women" for health care providers, trainers, administrators, and technical advisors of abortion programs. It focuses more on advocacy, partnerships, and service delivery than clinical care.

Youth Act for Safe Abortion: A Training Guide for Future Health Professionals

Date: September 2014 Topics: Advocacy Tools Resource Types: Trainings

This guide by IPAS is for future health professionals who want to learn about and engage in abortion issues. The modules provide strategies for advancing abortion rates and builds skills in advocacy, peer education, and abortion accompaniment.

Family Planning Advocacy Toolkit

Date: July 2018 Topics: Advocacy Tools Resource Types: Websites

This toolkit "provides advocates at all levels, including international, national, and community leaders, with the information and tools they need to make the case for improved access to voluntary family planning."

Advocacy Approaches to Promote Midwives and the Profession of Midwifery

Date: September 2013 Topics: Advocacy Case Studies Resource Types: Publications

This publication explores how advocacy strategies like influencing policymakers, involving the media, engaging youth, mobilizing the community, and strengthening the capacity of midwives as advocates can lead to a more supportive environment for midwives and ultimately better maternity care and birth outcomes.

Gender Service Delivery Standards: Tool and Facilitation Guide

Date: March 2018 Topics: SRH Education Resource Types: Trainings

"This tool assesses the quality of facility’s provision of gender-sensitive, respectful care. It is designed for health providers, facility managers and central, provincial/regional or district health managers who want to improve the services for which they are directly responsible."

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