Publish budget information online regarding purchase of contraceptive products (CI0034)

What is the public interest issue to be addressed by this commitment? In Ouagadougou in February 2011, then at the London Summit in 2012, Côte d'Ivoire made several commitments, including those to increase the availability of Family Planning (FP) services in health structures and to strengthen community services and expand the range of modern methods of contraception. Despite the various actions taken to achieve these commitments, much remains to be done. Indeed, according to (MICS 2016), unmet needs for FP (30.5%) and early sexual intercourse 25.4% lead to the practice of abortion: the number of women who received care after abortion reported by the public sector increased from 20,525 in 2013 to 29,387 in 2015. Abortion is the cause of 4.6% of maternal deaths; adolescent girls and young people constitute 29.6% of women who die due to pregnancy. The analysis of the indicators highlights, among other things, a low exposure of targets to messages on FP in general and in particular technical and financial partners and decision-makers to budgetary information on family planning. There is therefore a problem of access to information on FP.

What is the commitment? This involves regularly publishing on the website of the Ministry of Health budgetary information relating to FP in general and the purchase of contraceptive products in particular. Expected results: Availability of information at all levels. The objective is to make budgetary information relating to FP visible on the website of the Ministry in charge of Health.

How will commitment contribute to solve the public problem? The commitment to publish budgetary information on FP in general and the purchase of contraceptive products in particular on the Ministry of Health website will have the advantage of: - Provide official information on contraceptive products; - Provide the correct information on the purchase and availability of contraceptive products; - The regular publication of budgetary information relating to FP in general and the purchase of contraceptive products in particular on the website of the Ministry of Health will make it 35 possible to resolve the information deficit on the issue in a sustainable manner with a view to better funding.

Why is this commitment relevant to OGP values? This commitment allows: - Transparency: The Ministry in charge of Health will provide the right information to the various actors, and benefit from credibility with development partners and contribute to its visibility; - Access to information and citizen participation. The Ministry in charge of Health contributes to positively influencing everyone's decisions through the availability of information. In doing so, civil society can continue to watch over the interests of the population and the achievement of the objectives of development partners; - The traceability of information.

Additional information

Important activity having a verifiable deliverable Start date End date PNSME meetings for elaborating a timetable for meeting relating to communication on the family planning budget and contraceptive products. February 2021 March 2021 Meeting with the communications department of Health and Public Hygiene Ministry on the importance of communicating family planning information and budget February 2021 March 2021

Action Plan Review

Commitment 9: Contraceptives Transparency

Results Report

Commitment 9. Contraceptives Transparency

● Verifiable: Yes

● Does it have an open government lens? Yes

● Potential for results: Modest

● Completion: Complete

● Did it open government? No early results to report yet

According to Côte d’Ivoire’s OGP self-evaluation report, the National Program for Health of the Mother and Child (PNSME) met with the Ministry of Health and developed a technical note on the publication of family planning information that the Ministry of Health signed. The communication teams from PNSME and the Ministry of Health have begun to coordinate on the publication of family planning information. [27] Information about free family planning can be found on the Ministry of Health’s website [28] and on its Facebook page. [29]