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 Initiative aims to build positive 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
Resources
This Toolkit was created to engage adolescents and adults to transform gender and reproductive health outcomes by learning about their bodies, reproductive health, gender-based violence and gender roles and act to support changes in the home and community for adolescents. It includes Flipbooks, Activity Cards, a Radio Discussion Guide and a Community Game.
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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 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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This self-paced course for addresses SDM basics, eligibility criteria, method use, counseling, medical barriers, and program experiences.
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This manual contains basic information about LAM and includes several key learning tools/job aids...
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Integrating the Standard Days Method® (SDM) into family planning programs provides an opportunity to test innovative strategies to engage men in family planning. This publication gives particular attention to the role that SDM plays in encouraging cooperation of the male partner through a variety of community-based contexts.
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The TwoDay Method® Toolkit is your one-stop source for reliable relevant information on the TwoDay Method.
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The feasibility and effects of incorporating the Standard Days Method® (SDM), a simple fertility awareness family planning method, as an additional...
Blog
June 17, 2013 | 4:27 pm
We invite you to join IRH and Cycle Technologies for the How to Plan or Prevent Pregnancy Naturally Webinar on June 26, 2013 at 1pm EDT (10am PT).
June 14, 2013 | 3:58 pm
Remember when you were just entering puberty and learning about the human body for the first time? Chances are you encountered rumors about sexuality, fertility, and family planning. Perhaps you still hear rumors today. Accurate understanding and...
June 4, 2013 | 12:48 pm
The Irish Times article, “Offering Kenyan women the means to control their fertility,” describes Kenya’s rising population and its negative consequences on health, education, employment opportunities, and natural...