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Democratic Republic of Congo MAQ Exchange: Kinshasa, DRC: December 2004.
Photographers: Berengere De Negri, Advance Africa; Erin Seidner, Advance Africa

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A DR Congo MAQ Exchange participant wears a T-shirt that bears the following message: Birth Spacing Saves Lives. Photo by Erin Seidner, Advance Africa.Just after a DR Congo MAQ Exchange session on male involvement in family planning, participants take a break and continue the discussion. Photo by Berengere De Negri, Advance Africa.A participant at the DR Congo MAQ Exchange reviews some of the workshop materials. Each participant received a MAQ bag, which contained a variety of workshop materials, including background documents (e.g., relevant Population Reports in French), evaluation forms, and a personal commitment form. Photo by Berengere De Negri, Advance Africa.A poster that says Appropriate Decisions, Healthy Lives, Happy Families greets participants at the entrance to the Centre Nganda, the training center where the DR Congo MAQ Exchange was held. Photo by Erin Seidner, Advance Africa.A breakout group uses a laptop during the DR Congo MAQ Exchange. Laptops facilitated activity planning and the development of actions plans. Photo by Berengere De Negri, Advance Africa.Participants take part in an activity facilitated by EngenderHealth. Participants were asked to define quality according to their own personal experiences as clients. They were then asked to place their definitions along the spectrum of clients' rights. Photo by Berengere De Negri, Advance Africa.

DR Congo MAQ Exchange participants with bags full of workshop materials. Photo by Erin Seidner, Advance AfricaDR Congo MAQ Exchange participants engage in a role play. Participants assume the roles of a couple seeking a method of family planning and a health provider who helps them make a mutual decision about which method to adopt. The dialog allows participants to experience the dynamics of client-provider interaction. Photo by Berengere De Negri, Advance Africa.DR Congo MAQ Exchange participants gather in Kinshasa, holding their MAQ bags full of workshop materials. Photo by Erin Seidner, Advance Africa.

Small groups of participants were asked to contemplate the characteristics of an effective service provider and then draw a picture of this provider. One of the groups created this picture, which shows that an effective service provider has big ears to listen attentively to the client, big eyes, a big heart, a small mouth that ensures confidentiality, long arms that welcome the client without prejudice, and long legs that allow the provider to visit potential clients and reach out to men. Photo by Erin Seidner, Advance Africa.At the DR Congo MAQ Exchange closing ceremony, each participant was presented with a MAQ Exchange certificate. Presenters from left to right: Deputy Director du Cabinet/MOH, Family Planning and Reproductive Health Program Specialist/USAID, Director of the National Reproductive Health Program, and the Advance Africa Country Representative. Photo by Erin Seidner, Advance Africa.

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