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EDEAN’s Approach to Increasing Fertility Awareness and Demand for Family Planning in Karamoja, Uganda

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[Webinar] Fertility Awareness: Breaking barriers, debunking myths, and correcting misconceptions about family planning

The FACT Project team presents three innovative solutions developed to address an unmet need for family planning, and demonstrates how fertility awareness can be integrated into variety of SBC approaches.

Journal Article | FACT Project | Fertility Awareness

Fertility Awareness & Body Literacy Guide

Integrating information about fertility, menstruation, and our bodies into social and behavior change programs

Publication | FACT Project | Family Planning | Fertility Awareness

Tékponon Jikuagou

Tékponon Jikuagou means “doing everything possible to prevent infant mortality” in the local language of Adja in Benin.

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Social Networks Quiz

Social Network Analysis can be represented through social network maps like those below. In these maps, each node represents a single person while links between them show relationships between individuals. Social network maps provide both a visual and a quantitative snapshot of human relationships, as they illustrate how people are connected and share information with […]

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Market-testing a smartphone application for family planning: assessing potential of the CycleBeads app in seven countries through digital monitoring

The CycleBeads app, a digital platform for the Standard Days Method (SDM), a modern method of family planning, helps women achieve or prevent pregnancy, or track their cycles using the only their period start dates. Over a 6-cycle period in seven countries — Egypt, Ghana, India, Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria, and Rwanda — the app’s developer conducted social […]

Journal Article | FACT Project | Mobilizing technology for reproductive health

FACT Project’s Pragati Solution

Participatory Community Games to Increase Fertility Awareness and Family Planning Use

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Managing Menstruation in Nepal: My personal story about deeply rooted social norms

Recently, Nepal has received a lot of attention from the international community due to a New York Times article on Chhaupadi – the practice of isolating menstruating women and girls – and social taboos around menstruation. As part of the Fertility Awareness for Community Transformation (FACT) Project, the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH), at Georgetown University is […]

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Does it take a village? Fostering gender equity among early adolescents in Nepal

In rural Nepal, traditional gender norms contribute to a lack of opportunity for woman and girls and limit their access to reproductive health services. Early adolescence provides provides a key opportunity to shift these harmful norms. Choices, Voices, Promises is a package of interventions developed by Save the Children to improve gender equity among very young […]

Journal Article | Adolescents

Processing Gender: Learning from Josephine’s Journey

A new article published in Culture, Health and Sexuality, “Processing Gender: Lived Experiences of Reproducing and Transforming Gender Norms over the Adolescent Life Course in Northern Uganda,” provides a framework to identify the resources, institutions, and processes that shape adolescents’ gendered choices and behaviors.