title: Estimating the contribution of a service delivery organisation to the national modern contraceptive prevalence rate: Marie Stopes International's Impact 2 model.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Individual family planning service delivery organisations currently rely on service provision data and couple-years of protection as health impact measures. Due to the substitution effect and the continuation of users of long-term methods, these metrics cannot estimate an organisation's contribution to the national modern contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR), the standard metric for measuring family planning programme impacts. Increasing CPR is essential for addressing the unmet need for family planning, a recognized global health priority. Current health impact estimation models cannot isolate the impact of an organisation in these efforts. Marie Stopes International designed the Impact 2 model to measure an organisation's contribution to increases in national CPR, as well as resulting health and demographic impacts. This paper aims to describe the methodology for modelling increasing national-level CPR as well as to discuss its benefits and limitations.
  
  
  METHODS
  Impact 2 converts service provision data into estimates of the number of family planning users, accounting for continuation among users of long-term methods and addressing the challenges of converting commodity distribution data of short-term methods into user numbers. These estimates, combined with the client profile and data on the organisation's previous year's CPR contribution, enable Impact 2 to estimate which clients maintain an organisation's baseline contribution, which ones fulfil population growth offsets, and ultimately, which ones increase CPR.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Illustrative results from Marie Stopes Madagascar show how Impact 2 can be used to estimate an organisation's contribution to national changes in the CPR.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Impact 2 is a useful tool for service delivery organisations to move beyond cruder output measures to a better understanding of their role in meeting the global unmet need for family planning. By considering health impact from the perspective of an individual organisation, Impact 2 addresses gaps not met by other models for family planning service outcomes. Further, the model helps organisations improve service delivery by demonstrating that increases in the national CPR are not simply about expanding user numbers; rather, the type of user (e.g. adopters, provider changers) must be considered. Impact 2 can be downloaded at http://www.mariestopes.org/impact-2.
authors.affiliation: Marie Stopes International (MSI), London, W1T 6LP, UK. michelle.weinberger@mariestopes.org
authors.forename: Michelle B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Weinberger
authors.forename: Kenzo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fry
authors.forename: Tania
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Boler
authors.forename: Kristen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hopkins
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003267:Contraception / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005193:Family Planning Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007390:International Agencies / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008270:Madagascar; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D015995:Prevalence; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*
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