Resources

This resource is from the Capacity Strengthening for Abortion Research in Nigeria (CSARN) project. The material was developed as teaching modules for project Fellows who are early-career abortion researchers in Nigeria.

The session focuses on values clarification, complexities in abortion issues and research in Nigeria (and would apply to similar legally restrictive setting), particularly the role that restrictive laws play in complicating access to abortion services for women and young girls, as well as the judgmental cultural and religious perceptions of the phenomena.

The presentation covers basic concepts of multi-disciplinary issues in abortion studies, application of critical thinking skills to abortion research, and identifying research gaps. Those who participated in this session also learned about the effectiveness of multidisciplinary approaches and identifying root causes of SRH problems instead of its symptoms. Participants were introduced to value systems, their role in decision-making and they participated in a short value clarification exercise. Participants critically analyzed two case studies during practice sessions to further establish the lessons learned in the module.

This resource is from the Capacity Strengthening for Abortion Research in Nigeria (CSARN) project. The material was developed as teaching modules for project Fellows who are early-career abortion researchers in Nigeria.

This presentation covers the basics of ethics in research and its relationship to abortion in the Nigerian context, as well as the application processes for ethical approval in Nigeria. During this session, ethics was defined as a determination of what is good or bad in the process of conceiving, conducting, and reporting research findings and the determination of acceptable boundaries in conducting research. Facilitators highlighted principles of research ethics like maximizing the benefits and minimizing the risk of their research, conducting research with justice and autonomy, respecting people’s (i.e. research subjects') confidentiality and privacy. Ethics of research publications, and how to avoid plagiarism, identify and avoid predatory publishers were discussed.

Some of the key ethical issues in abortion discussed include – limited capacity for oversight on research on abortion, challenges in getting informed consent from parents of adolescents, ensuring privacy during interviews, risk of emotional harm, judgmental interviewers, issues around getting respondents to recruit and meet expected targets and the issues of confidentiality. Some of the highlighted ideas on how to resolve these dilemmas include training research staff as well as ethics and research committee, and also provision of guidelines to assist in recruiting participants, getting informed consent, and supporting participants.

Participants also learned different examples of misconduct in research such as salami slicing, fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, honorary authorship, and undeserved exclusion in authorship. Facilitators highlighted requirements for authorship, the responsibilities of a scientist, the ethics of data sharing, and some of the red flags for predatory publishers. Participants participated in a practical session on research misconduct.

This resource is from the Capacity Strengthening for Abortion Research in Nigeria (CSARN) project. The material was developed as teaching modules for project Fellows who are early-career abortion researchers in Nigeria.

This presentation explains the intricacies of social science theory application and gender epistemologies in abortion research. Particular attention was placed on hypothesis testing, theory application approaches, feminist theories and gender issues in abortion research.

This resource is from the Capacity Strengthening for Abortion Research in Nigeria (CSARN) project. The material was developed as teaching modules for project Fellows who are early-career abortion researchers in Nigeria.

The presentation focuses on key terminologies, concepts, and landscapes of abortion in Nigeria to aid research engagements. Topics include the classification of abortion by safety, the dynamics of safe and unsafe abortion costs for public health and health systems, factors associated with, and burden of unsafe abortion globally and nationally, as well as approaches to preventing/reducing unsafe abortion incidences.

Usage of terms like ‘safe’ and ‘unsafe, ‘spontaneous’ and ‘induced’, ‘complete’ and ‘incomplete’, ‘medical’ and ‘surgical’ in describing abortion processes was explained to participants. Facilitators highlighted that young women and girls from marginalized or underprivileged backgrounds are most vulnerable to unsafe abortion. Participants were exposed to public health frameworks for intervention (primordial, primary, secondary and tertiary), as well as strategic action pillars for preventing unsafe abortion.

​​This resource is from the Capacity Strengthening for Abortion Research in Nigeria (CSARN) project. The material was developed as teaching modules for project Fellows who are early-career abortion researchers in Nigeria.

This presentation introduces mainstream concepts in abortion research and how they can be measured, how to identify potential sources of abortion data, and how to combine contexts with other variables as data sources for generating measures of abortion concepts. The presentation covers basic abortion concepts and measurements/indicators, how to identify a good measure, and how to calculate numerators, denominators, and proportions when conceiving/ designing abortion research. The second part of the presentation focuses on abortion data sources and approaches, including the Health Facility Survey (HFS), Community-based Survey (CBS), Health Survey System (HSS), Health Professional Survey (HPS), and Survey of Informal Abortion Providers (SIAP).

This resource is from the Capacity Strengthening for Abortion Research in Nigeria (CSARN) project. The material was developed as teaching modules for project Fellows who are early-career abortion researchers in Nigeria.

This presentation introduces the methodologies of designing abortion research and how to select appropriate designs for research. Participants in this session were shown how to identify a good study design and the characteristics of study designs for both qualitative and quantitative studies. Fellows carried out group works in identifying and drafting designs for different types of research.

This resource is from the Capacity Strengthening for Abortion Research in Nigeria (CSARN) project. The material was developed as teaching modules for project Fellows who are early-career abortion researchers in Nigeria.

This presentation covers how to identify, access, obtain, explore, and analyze data from selected secondary data sources. It includes some major databases for sourcing abortion-related secondary data including Guttmacher Institute’s, PMA, DHS, and MICS. The advantages and limitations of secondary data were discussed, and methods of obtaining secondary data were demonstrated to the participants. Fellows were divided into five groups in which they practicalized accessing and obtaining secondary data from the DHS database. They also explored the analysis of the data downloaded choosing a topic of interest and presenting preliminary findings during a plenary session.

This toolkit provides a structured approach for analyzing how change happens, from the national level to the local level.

This is an introductory guide to preparing a political economy analysis developed by the National School of Government International (NSGI), UK government.

This is an introductory guide to preparing a political economy analysis.

This is a values clarification toolkit developed for global audiences. It is a resource for trainers, program managers and technical advisors who organize or facilitate training events and advocacy workshops in the field of sexual and reproductive health and, specifically, for increased access to safe abortion care.

This toolkit is a resource for trainers, program managers and technical advisors who organize or facilitate training events and advocacy workshops in the field of sexual and reproductive health and, specifically, for increased access to safe abortion care. It is designed to provide experienced facilitators with the background information, materials, instructions and tips necessary to effectively facilitate abortion values clarification and attitude transformation (VCAT) interventions. There are also activities and materials to conduct a workshop to help experienced trainers increase their skills in facilitating abortion VCAT training events.

This toolkit is designed to be a flexible resource that can serve training needs for a variety of audiences and settings. It is not a structured curriculum, but rather a collection of activities and materials that can be used individually or in combination, based on the timing and agenda of individual workshops.

This toolkit, originally developed for Ipas staff and community partners working to reduce abortion stigma and increase access to safe abortion, is designed for use with the staff or members of community-based organizations (CBOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community health workers and/or community members with a range of education and literacy levels. The activities are designed to be easily adapted to fit different settings and contexts and to be led by trained facilitators who may be CBO or NGO staff or members, community health workers, or individual trainers or activists.

This toolkit is a resource for organizations that want to build a disability inclusion mindset among staff and partners who design and implement abortion and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) programming. It is written specifically for facilitators trained in values clarification and attitude transformation in the field of abortion and SRHR

This tool is for mapping potential key stakeholders in reproductive health and family planning service delivery, in preparation for implementing WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria/Selective Practice Recommendations (MEC/SPR) guidance.

This toolkit is designed to support organizations and professionals in their efforts to build youth-adult partnerships and involve young people in monitoring, evaluation and research of SRHR programs that target them.

This training was developed for 30 early career reproductive health researchers in Ethiopia. The objective was to introduce abortion research methodologies to participants familiar with reproductive health and/or research, but with limited experience with abortion research methodologies. This training was taught by Dr. Beth Sully (Guttmacher) and Dr. Wakgari Deressa (Addis Ababa University School of Public Health)

Audience:
MPH graduates or PhD students, particularly those with a focus or interest in reproductive health
Ob/gyns interested in abortion research.

Content: The training content is saved in one PowerPoint: Abortion Research Methods_Final Consolidated. The content includes:
Introduction to abortion research, including why it is important to study abortion and the impact of abortion research on policy.

• Methods to study abortion incidence
  • Abortion Incidence Complications Method (AICM)
  • Indirect Social Network-Based Approaches
• Methods to study complications, quality of care, and access
  • Health Facilities Survey (HFS)
  • Prospective Morbidity Survey (PMS)
  • Mystery client surveys
  • Client Exit Interviews
• Methods to study abortion experiences and stigma
  • Sampling considerations
  • Abortion safety outside of clinic settings
  • Abortion stigma
  • Qualitative methods
• Issues to consider in abortion research, given the sensitivity & stigma surrounding abortion

This training was developed for 30 early career reproductive health researchers in Ethiopia. The objective was to train early career researchers on how to write abortion research proposals. This training was taught by Dr. Wakgari Deressa (Addis Ababa University School of Public Health)

Audience:
MPH graduates or PhD students, particularly those with a focus or interest in reproductive health
Ob/gyns interested in abortion research

Content: The training content is saved in one PowerPoint: Abortion Research Proposal Writing Early Career Researchers. Content includes:

• Steps in research planning
• Essential parts of a research proposal
  • Background/introduction
  • Research problem statement
  • Research questions
  • Rationale
  • Literature review / synthesizing the literature
  • Research objectives
  • Research methodology & study design
  • Sampling
  • Ethical issues
  • Workplan and timeline
  • Budgets
• Types of study designs, including cross-sectional studies, case-control studies, cohort studies, and RCTs
• Types of sampling, including probability and non-probability sampling and sample size determination
• Planning data collection
  • Independent vs. Dependent variables

This resource helps public child welfare agencies, tribes and courts enhance and mobilize the human and organizational assets necessary to meet federal standards and requirements; improve child welfare practice and administration; and achieve safety, permanency and well-being outcomes for children, youth and families.

This report contains a collection of case studies conducted to examine the passage, implementation and impact of revised, less restrictive abortion laws in the six country settings introduced above.

This toolkit is a guide for engaging in anti-oppressive abortion advocacy that can be tailored to various national settings.

This guide is for trainers and educators who want to deliver workshops or training on abortion to young people, especially those training young peer educators.

This guide is intended for advocates interested in supporting expanded access to safe abortion care in their countries. Its contents will help you and your colleagues develop a strategy that considers the unique considerations for abortion-related advocacy. It is intended that you will work through this guide together with a small group of stakeholders who are committed to working together on expanded access to safe abortion care. This guide will take you through each step in the process, but it is up to you to decide where you need to begin. While this guide is a primer for those who may be new to abortion advocacy, it is also a helpful resource for experienced advocates.

This Powerpoint provides an overview of the major data collection approaches for studying abortion:
This Powerpoint provides an overview of the major data collection approaches for studying abortion:
– Health Facility Survey (HFS)
– Community-based Survey (CBS)
– Surveillance System (SS)
– Health Professional Survey (HPS)
– Survey of Informal Abortion Providers
The presentation of each approach focuses on:
– Representativeness and coverage of the approach
– Type of abortion information it collects
– Limitation of data from the approach

A second section, “From Research to Impact: Communicating Evidence for Advocacy” covers the utility of data for advocacy, identifying target audiences, mapping desired outcomes, communicating the evidence, and developing key messages.

In 2019, Marie Stopes International launched the #SmashAbortionStigma campaign to shine a light on the widespread stigma faced by women who access safe abortion care. Through this multichannel campaign, they hoped to promote open conversations about abortion by calling on people to break the silence. Using their social media channels, website, and the voices of supporters to amplify support for choice, they wanted to show women that they are supported and not alone.

This PowerPoint slide provide information on basics of advocacy, use of social media and tackling fake news. Examples of advocacy misinformation are presented so the audience can learn different strategies of advocacy.

This PowerPoint presentation provides information on the use of digital technology to contact, engage, inform and mobilize a group of concerned people around an issue or cause.

This presentation provides information on how to inform media articles and advocacy strategies, clarify priorities for policymakers, help guide funding decisions and improve public health outcomes.

This presentation discusses details of setting up and conducting the PMS (Prospective Morbidity Survey) and how to track quality of the clinical data obtained.

This resource is part of a series of trainings on AICM (Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology) carried out by the African Population and Health Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute.

This presentation discusses the key sources of data for AICM and how to estimate age-specific abortions while accounting for other types of pregnancy losses. Also includes a country example.

This resource is part of a series of trainings on AICM (Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology) carried out by the African Population and Health Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute.

This PowerPoint discusses using the Prospective Morbidity Survey (PMS) to measure complications from abortion that are treated in a facility.
Aims and Objectives:
• To assess the frequency of abortion-related complications
• To provide detailed data on the severity of complications
• To provide detailed data on the clinical care women receive
• To assess the factors associated with varying severity of complications
• To explore the experiences of care for women receiving PAC
• It can provide data for detailed costing studies

This resource is part of a series of trainings on AICM (Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology) carried out by the African Population and Health Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute.

This PowerPoint discusses Open Science—science that is transparent in its methods and accessible to everyone; and how practically, Open Science can mean a lot of different things to different people. Open Science ties into both the equitable distribution of scientific knowledge, as well as the reliability of results. The training covers the principles of reproducibility and transparent qualitative research and how to achieve both.

This resource is part of a series of trainings on AICM (Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology) carried out by the African Population and Health Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute.

This PowerPoint covers Direct and Indirect methods for measuring abortion incidence with emphasis on AICM (Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology). It presents the advantages and disadvantages of AICM and introduces the Health Facility Survey (HFS).

This resource is part of a series of trainings on AICM (Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology) carried out by the African Population and Health Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute.

This Powerpoint covers key questions to ask respondents in health facilities as part of a Health Facilities Survey (HFS). It also discusses best practices for interviews and when to use annual caseloads and past/average month caseloads.

This resource is part of a series of trainings on AICM (Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology) carried out by the African Population and Health Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute.

This PowerPoint discusses the use of Medication abortion, specifically Mifepristone and Misoprostol.

This resource is part of a series of trainings on AICM (Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology) carried out by the African Population and Health Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute.

This PowerPoint defines spontaneous abortion, discusses two assumptions in estimating the number of cases due to miscarriage, provides steps for making estimates of miscarriages along with an example of using estimates in calculating the total number of PAC cases due to induced abortions.

This resource is part of a series of trainings on AICM (Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology) carried out by the African Population and Health Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute.

This PowerPoint discusses using the HPS (Health Professionals Survey) to measure the proportion of women having an abortion who did not obtain care in health care facilities. The training includes an overview of AICM, identifying the sample of respondents and key survey questions.

This resource is part of a series of trainings on AICM (Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology) carried out by the African Population and Health Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute.

This PowerPoint discusses how to calculate total PAC (Postabortion care) cases in a country and provides detailed examples.
Calculating PAC cases:
• For each facility providing PAC, calculate the yearly totals from typical and past monthly estimates
• Calculate the average of the typical and past year estimates for outpatients and inpatients separately
• Sum the average values of outpatient and inpatient estimate to get TOTAL yearly PAC cases for facility
• Add all facility estimates to get total number of PAC cases for the sample

This resource is part of a series of trainings on AICM (Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology) carried out by the African Population and Health Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute.

This PowerPoint discusses measuring the likelihood of complications for different abortion methods and the proportion of women receiving care for abortion complications in facilities.

This resource is part of a series of trainings on AICM (Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology) carried out by the African Population and Health Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute.

This PowerPoint provides an overview of the typical AICM methodology and the three steps in estimating abortion incidence using the AICM. It is followed by a short quiz.

This resource is part of a series of trainings on AICM (Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology) carried out by the African Population and Health Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute.