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.
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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...
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...
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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 family planning interconnect...
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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
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
Fostering an environment where women and men can take actions to protect their reproductive health with increased fertility awareness and expanded access to FAM at the community level.
Projects
Passages will build the evidence base and contribute to the capacity of the global community to strengthen normative environments that support reproductive health.
Projects
The Learning Collaborative envisions a world where programs improve adolescent health by applying normative science at scale.
Projects
Faith based organizations have significant influence on values and behaviors around timing and spacing of pregnancies.
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
IRH provides technical assistance both in-country and internationally in social science research and project monitoring, learning, and evaluation.
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
The FAM Project builds upon the experience of previous USAID-funded projects in which IRH developed, tested and introduced fertility awareness-based methods (FAM)...
Resources
This report presents the findings of the endline survey of the Gender Roles, Equality, and Transformations (GREAT) project.
The GREAT project aimed...
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As the global economy expands, global migration continues in lockstep. This article, “Men on the move and the wives left behind: the impact of...
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The Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) assesses the formation of gender norms and their relation to health and behavioral outcomes during...
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Growing Up GREAT! aims to foster gender awareness and equity among very young adolescents (VYAs), their parents, teachers/providers and the larger...
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The Girls’ Holistic Development program is a community-based intervention that has been implemented by The Grandmother Project | Change through...
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This document, Resources for Measuring Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Program Implementers is part of the work of the Learning Collaborative’s...
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Between May and September 2017, Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) conducted a midline, ethnographic assessment of...
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Over the past several years, an exciting body of knowledge has emerged that focuses on understanding the role social norms play as both barriers and...
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Learnings and experiences from pilot testing the Social Norms Exploration Tool
Blog
October 4, 2019 | 1:17 pm
Presentation, Poster, and Event Schedule
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Tuesday, October 22nd 2019
Evaluating norms-shifting interventions to reduce violence: findings from the Masculinité, Famille, et Foi intervention in the DRC
14:30 –...
September 20, 2019 | 9:12 am
The Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change is a network of experts committed to facilitating collaboration between organizations and individuals working on adolescent and youth norms-shifting interventions. Members are working...
July 19, 2019 | 8:56 am
The Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change is a network of experts committed to facilitating collaboration between organizations and individuals working on adolescent and youth norms-shifting interventions. Members are working...
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