What is Reforming Operational Policies:
A Pathway to Improving Reproductive Health Programs?
The paper discusses the nature of operational policies, stresses the
important role they play in the continuum from national decrees to local
services, and provides a framework for operational policy reform. The
operational policy reform process calls for:
- understanding the public sector, which gives rise to the
policies that shape the service environment;
- setting up a collaborative system with managers and providers
for identifying operational barriers to high-quality reproductive
health care;
- conducting analyses to determine the operational policy
roots of those
- barriers
- adopting recommendations and strategies to remove the operational
policy barriers
The process of analyzing operational policies and devising
reform strategies is most effective as a participatory endeavor
that draws on the insights and perspectives of those who manage
and provide reproductive health care services and those who
set policies.
The paper also provides evidenced based examples of how operational
policy analyses have illuminated the debilitating effects of
outdated or nonexistent
policies on reproductive services in a number of countries, including
Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jordan, the Philippines, Romania, and Ukraine.
The analyses led to reform initiatives that helped governments at all
levels. Analyzing operational policies and supporting policy reform
is a highly effective tool for improving the delivery of much-needed
reproductive
health care services in developing countries.
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