Focus Areas
IRH is committed to meeting the evolving family planning needs of women and couples throughout the lifecycle by ensuring they have access to a broad range of options...
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Focus Areas
IRH addresses this critical time of early adolescence with approaches that improve body literacy and fertility awareness to help young people understand their maturing bodies...
Focus Areas
Addressing gender is implicit in our work. We view gender equity as a cross cutting issue that must be embedded throughout the design and evaluation of all of reproductive health programs.
Focus Areas
IRH believes that by placing accurate information about fertility in the hands of women, men, girls, and boys, they will be able to understand how sex, reproduction and contraception interconnect...
Focus Areas
IRH has multiple years of experience scaling up successful pilot programs to address unmet need for family planning and studying the process along the way.
Focus Areas
IRH recognizes the opportunity to leverage technology to improve reproductive health outcomes.
Focus Areas
IRH is an applied research organization that focuses on implementation science; monitoring, learning and evaluation (MLE) is intrinsic to our work.
Projects
The FAM Project builds upon the experience of previous USAID-funded projects in which IRH developed, tested and introduced fertility awareness-based methods (FAM)...
Projects
The GREAT Project aims to promote gender-equitable attitudes and behaviors among adolescents (ages 10-19) and their communities with the goal of reducing gender-based violence.
Projects
Tékponon Jikuagou aims to reduce unmet need for family planning in Benin through social network interventions with a goal to create a social environment that fosters reflective family planning dialogue.
Projects
The REAL Fathers Project aims to build positive partnerships and parenting practices among young fathers in post-conflict Northern Uganda to reduce the incidence of violence.
Projects
We engage with a wide range of public and private sector programs across the country to include fertility awareness methods (FAM) among the choice of methods they offer to clients.
Projects
The project’s purpose is to develop and disseminate a guide to help family planning programs meet forecasting needs when there is no trend data.
Projects
IRH provides technical assistance both in-country and internationally in social science research and project monitoring, learning, and evaluation.
Projects
IRH designed a strategy to build provider capacity and improve Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) services across Latin American countries.
Projects
IRH collaborated to strengthen the provision of family planning methods through faith-based health facilities in Kenya, with a specific focus on community-based provision.
Resources
The feasibility and effects of incorporating the Standard Days Method® (SDM), a simple fertility awareness family planning method, as an additional...
Resources
This long-term follow-up study sought to learn more about Standard Days Method® (SDM) use beyond the six or 12 month follow-up period of a series of...
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In 2002, the MOH invited IRH to conduct a pilot study of the acceptability and feasibility of introducing the Standard Days Method (SDM) through...
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In June 2002, the USAID Mission in Rwanda invited the Georgetown University Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) AWARENESS Project to work with...
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The overall purpose of the AWARENESS Project’s activities in Mali was to increase the availability and use of quality family planning/reproductive...
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This peer-reviewed article highlights research conducted in Nepal with Save the Children's Choices curriculum, a set of activities supporting very young adolescents to explore alternative views of masculinities and feminities.
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The purpose of the manual is to teach girls and boys ages 10 to 14 years...
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This self-paced course for addresses SDM basics, eligibility criteria, method use, counseling, medical barriers, and program experiences.
Blog
May 15, 2013 | 5:00 am
We recognize the power of a relevant and functional digital presence in a world where patterns of communication and methods of information-sharing are rapidly evolving. We asked ourselves what we could change about our web presence in order to...
March 11, 2013 | 9:22 pm
While it is commonplace to shop online for shoes, clothes, books, and more, have you ever considered purchasing family planning methods online?
As the Global South becomes increasingly connected through technology, the reproductive health community...
February 20, 2013 | 9:21 pm
“Over 200 million women and girls in developing countries who want to delay, space or avoid becoming pregnant are not using effective methods of contraception.” Although access to services and costs of contraceptives are obstacles for many...