The Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Health with Support from the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) through the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), with overall coordination from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) commissioned Socio-economic Data Center (SEDC) to undertake an evaluation of family planning programmes particularly targeting young people 15-24. The Endline Evaluation constituted the fourth and last phase of this project

PROJECT TITLE

Impact Evaluation of Government of Uganda Family Planning Programs and Policies Targeting Young People Aged 15-24 Years: An Endline Study of Youth-Friendly Services


Client

Ministry of Health

Services

Impact evaluation

Sector

Health and Wellbeing

Date started

2018-10

Lead consultant

Prof. Narathius Asingwire


PURPOSE

The purpose of the Endline Phase is to assess whether the provision and utilization of youth-friendly services have the potential to contribute to the desired FP/SRHR outcomes among young people aged 15-24.


OBJECTIVES / QUESTIONS

This endline evaluation is guided by the research questions for the broad Impact Evaluation Study namely:

1. What is the impact of utilization of youth-friendly family planning services on contraceptive utilization, abstinence, and unintended pregnancy among young people aged 15-24 in Uganda?
2. Is there any evidence of heterogeneous effects, in which the benefits are particularly large for young people already engaged in risky behaviors ex ante?
3. Are the effects of youth-friendly family planning services different for young men and women, and in urban and rural areas?


METHODOLOGY

The Endline evaluation is utilizing a panel design including two large-scale quantitative surveys (Baseline and Endline), conducted with a sample of young people (15-24 years) in selected sites across Uganda. The evaluation also entailed a randomized approach in form of an encouragement design. The objective of the randomized “encouragement design” was to generate experimental variation in the probability of utilizing FP/SRH services that could be exploited to estimate the impact of utilizing these services. Both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection were utilised including structured questionnaires, focus group discussions, key informant interviews and review of secondary data.


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