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Purpose of this tool
This flip-chart is a tool to use during family planning
counselling or in group sessions with clients. It can:
• help your clients choose and use the method of family planning
that suits them best;
• give you the information you need for high-quality and effective
family planning counseling and care;
• help you know who may need referral.
Preparing to use the tool
• For each topic in this tool, there is a page for the client and one
for you. The client's page has pictures and key points and your
page has more details.
• At the back are pages which provide more information on
special topics and situations.
• This guide covers only the main points. When you talk with
your clients, you can add information and discuss matters
further, responding to the client’s needs and concerns.
• Studying this tool will help you learn the information in it. Using
it becomes easier with practice.
Using the tool with clients
• Place the tool where you and the client can easily see it.
• Use only pages and information that meet the individual
client’s needs. To do this, keep listening to and
assessing the client’s situation, needs, and wishes.
• Use language that the client will understand. Do not
read the text to the client. Once you know the tool, a
glance will remind you of key information and your next
steps.
Methods
Carry with you examples of the methods (an IUD, a
packet of pills, for example) so that your clients can see
what they really look like.
How to use pages as handouts
In order to give information to the client on the method
she or he chooses, the methods pages were designed
to be photocopied front and back and given to the client.
These pages have key information for the client about
how to use the method.