Examining Barriers to Family Planning Information, Products, and Services among Ukrainian Refugees and Host Communities in Poland: Findings from mixed methods research to inform cash and voucher assistance programming

The study aimed to understand the FP needs of newly arriving Ukrainian refugee women in Poland and to assess the feasibility of using CVA to support access to FP services to inform the design, coordination, and funding of future CVA programming for SRH, specifically FP service provision, in the refugee response in Poland.

In order to capture both the market and barriers to FP, the study was completed in two phases. The first phase was an FP market assessment, which aimed to capture the market for FP services and products in Poland, including:

• direct and indirect costs associated with obtaining FP services and products;
• product availability;
• quality of FP services and products in two target locations (Warsaw and Przemyśl) across both public and private care; and
• capacity of actors to increase the supply of FP services if a CVA for FP intervention were implemented, and resulted in increased demand for services.

The second phase was a FP barrier assessment, which aimed to explore and document:

• barriers to accessing SRH services, including FP, faced by Ukrainian refugee and Polish host community women living in Warsaw and surrounding areas;
• difference in barriers faced between refugee women and Polish women, and by women with disabilities; and
• possible modalities to reduce barriers and increase the availability and accessibility of FP services and products.