RESOURCE / Training
The A3 Project is working with youth-serving organizations in Rwanda to improve the sexual and reproductive health of very young adolescents...
The A3 Project is working with youth-serving organizations in Rwanda to improve the sexual and reproductive health of very...
RESOURCE / Video
In partnership with USAID and Search Institute, the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University explored the links between...
RESOURCE / Publication
Tékponon Jikuagou aims to develop and test a scalable package of social network activities to engage men and women in discussion...
RESOURCE / Report
In order to reduce social barriers in Benin that impede individuals from seeking and using family planning services, the Tékponon...
GREAT is a set of participatory activities to engage adolescents and adults in discussion and reflection about how to...
The Gender Roles, Equality, and Transformations (GREAT) project is a six and a half-year project funded by USAID and...
Modern family planning uptake is stalling in Jordan, despite nearly universal knowledge of contraceptive methods, high rates of female...
RESOURCE / Journal Article
“Moving from theory to practice: A participatory social network mapping approach to address unmet need for family planning in...
Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Maternal Child and Community Health Unit,...
Cherchez-vous à intensifier les interventions de santé sexuelle et reproductive (SSR) fondées sur des preuves? En 28 Juin, les...
The FACT project’s PRAGATI intervention in Nepal works through existing social networks to easily diffuse fertility awareness information to...
The Passages consortium hosted a technical consultation of experts on February 29 - March 1, 2016 to provide guidance...
The Passages consortium hosted a technical consultation of experts on February 29 – March 1, 2016 to provide guidance...
EDEAN is a community-based intervention testing the hypothesis that increasing fertility awareness improves family planning use. EDEAN uses a community theatre approach...
WALAN, which stands for Wake ki Lago Nywal (“To Be Proud with Family Planning”), is a community-based group learning approach...
To inform the Passages Project’s overall vision and strategy, the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University conducted a...
The Passages Project conducted a literature review of published grey and peer-reviewed literature to explore parameters of normative change interventions...
Violence against women and violence against children in Uganda are recognized as significant public health concerns. Exposure to violence...
As a part of the Fertility Awareness for Community Transformation (FACT) Project, the Wake ki Lago Nywal (WALAN) “Be...
We propose a new, personalised approach of estimating a woman’s most fertile days that only requires recording the first...
Many fertility awareness applications have been developed for smartphones, some of which are digital platforms for existing methods, requiring...
Growing Up GREAT! adapts elements of two tested models—Gender Roles, Equality, and Transformations (GREAT) from northern Uganda and GrowUp...
Intimate partner violence and child maltreatment are common forms of violence with many overlapping risk factors and outcomes. In...
Social norms – the often unspoken rules that govern behavior – shape the trajectories of young people’s lives. The...
This document summarizes the methodology, objectives, and activities of a capacity building strategy for community-based family planning provision in...
In the Journal of Global Health Viewpoints piece, “Men’s health: time for a new approach to policy and practice?,”...
Working through existing social networks, Pragati uses a series of games to diffuse information about fertility awareness and family...
Transforming Masculinities is an evidence-based approach to promote gender equality and positive masculinities within faith communities. It is based...
As a part of the Fertility Awareness for Community Transformation (FACT) Project, the Pragati “Fertility Awareness for Quality of...
Tékponon Jikuagou is a low-cost package of activities that relies on existing social networks to diffuse new ideas in...
Acknowledging that decades of programming to promote greater access to information and services have not closed the gap between...
In the Karamoja region of Uganda, rapid cultural transitions are happening, and these shifts offer an opportunity introduce new...
As part of the FACT Project, IRH conducted a literature review of couples counseling interventions in reproductive health to...
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in health and well-being requires scaling up successfully tested interventions that catalyze communities to...
The standard approach for measuring unmet need for family planning calculates actual, physiological unmet need, and is useful for...
Recognizing the health impact of timing and spacing of pregnancies, the Sustainable Development Goals call for increased access to...
The standard approach for measuring unmet need for family planning calculates actual, physiological unmet need and is useful for...
Grounded in formative research, the Responsible, Engaged and Loving (REAL) Fathers Initiative is a community-based mentoring program that works...
The REAL Fathers Initiative is a community-based mentoring program that works with young fathers (16-25 years old) who are...
The article “Jordan’s 2002 to 2012 Fertility Stall and Parallel USAID Investments in Family Planning: Lessons From an Assessment...
Roving Auxiliary Nurse-Midwives (RANMs) provide essential health services, including family planning, to hard-to-reach communities in Nepal. These informational posters were...
The Gender Roles, Equality, and Transformations (GREAT) Project (2010-2017) is an evidence-based intervention that succeeded in improving gender norms...
There are thousands of menstrual cycle tracking apps on the market. But most are not tested, and very few...
Recent years have seen an upsurge in interest in social norms and their application in solving complex public health...
This document presents the work of members of the Learning Collaboriative’s Theory Community. Representatives of the Scale-Up and Measurement...
The Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change envisions a world where the powerful influence of social norms in shaping...
Members of the Learning Collaborative share the resources they have identified as most useful to their work addressing social...
Despite Nepal’s relatively high contraceptive prevalence rate (50%), 27% of married women have an unmet need for family planning,...
The Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) and Population Media Center (PMC) collaborated under the USAID-funded FACT Project to create...
Smartphone apps that provide women with information about their daily fertility status during their menstrual cycles can contribute to...
This webinar covered case examples and guidance for key steps, challenges, and solutions for costing of social norm interventions.
This study assesses the competency and acceptability of community-based provision of Standard Days Method (SDM) to first-time users in...
This report includes key messages from the Advancing Social Norms Practice convening held at the Bill & Melinda Gates...
Social norms play a powerful role in shaping the behavior of young people and can have an enormous impact...
Published in Culture, Health and Sexuality, this article provides a framework to identify the resources, institutions, and processes that...
Christian hospitals, clinics, and health care programs have a unique role to play in providing family planning services in...
The rapid proliferation of fertility apps has created a market that has the potential to address the needs of...
In rural Nepal, traditional gender norms contribute to a lack of opportunity for woman and girls and limit their...
The CycleBeads app, a digital platform for the Standard Days Method (SDM), a modern method of family planning, helps...
The Passages Project team hosted a research and implementation forum with colleagues from the Democratic Republic of Congo and...
Integrating information about fertility, menstruation, and our bodies into social and behavior change programs
The FACT Project team presents three innovative solutions developed to address an unmet need for family planning, and demonstrates...
IRH researchers are studying women’s use of the app for 13 menstrual cycles, or about one year. The ongoing prospective...
Valeurs du mariage et planification familiale
A training package for sensitizing religious leaders on healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies and family planning?
In recent years, reproductive health has been improving in Nepal. However, in some communities, there are still physical and...
Despite gains in most reproductive health indicators, many services still do not reach some marginalized communities in Nepal. Physical ...
Engaging youth is considered standard practice in adolescent and youth family planning and reproductive health programs, yet involving youth...
Nepal has a high unmet need for family planning. There are many reasons for unmet need. Discussing reproductive health...
IRH researchers are studying women’s use of the Dot app for pregnancy prevention. The ongoing prospective study design is the...
The Coalition for Understanding Scale Up (CUSP) is a group of nine organizations working across every region to explore what...
Though population surveys in Nepal continue to show a declining total fertility rate (TFR), the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR)...
In 2019, the Learning Collaborative published a special supplement in the Journal of Adolescent Health, “ Advancing Social Norms...
Researchers from the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) at Georgetown University Medical Center studied women’s use of the Dot...
This report was commissioned by IRH following the initial 4-day, realist evaluation workshop held in Vélingara, Senegal, in August...
Since 2011, Nepal’s modern method contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) has stagnated at 43% (NDHS, 2011 and 2016). Over the...
Working with Faith-Based Communities: Baseline Findings from the Masculinité, Famille et Foi Study in Kinshasa, DRC
EDEAN was tested as a 6 month peer learning and community theatre intervention to diffuse fertility awareness and FP...
With the aim of increasing acceptability and the use of family planning in marginalized communities in rural Nepal, the...
The Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) is the first global study to explore the process of gender socialization in...
If our goal is to achieve systemic and sustainable change, rather than affecting change at the individual or small...
This document, authored by the Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change, is one of a series of working papers...