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...
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 family planning 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
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
IRH researchers studied women’s use of the Dot app for pregnancy prevention over 13 menstrual cycles.
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Learn how integrating fertility awareness into SBC activities can improve health and wellbeing through case studies and lessons from the FACT Project
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Do social norms matter for adolescent health and wellbeing?
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To diversify the method mix in Nepal, the FACT Project designed and supported the introduction of the Standard Days Method.
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As part of a 2018 collection, this case study focuses on the scale up of the Gender Roles Equality and Transformation (GREAT) Project.
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The longitudinal Global Early Adolescence Study in Kinshasa, DRC is designed as a quasi-experimental study with an intervention and a control arm, each divided into subgroups of in-school and out-of-school adolescents.
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The brief is focused on why the investment in youth engagement matters to the success of Passages. Now available in English and French!
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WALAN is a community-based group learning approach that aims to increase fertility awareness, encourage family planning use, and expand access to FAM.
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IRH researchers are studying women’s use of the app for 13 menstrual cycles, or about one year. The ongoing prospective study design is the first to apply best-practice guidelines for assessing fertility awareness based methods in the testing of an app.
Blog
March 18, 2019 | 5:00 am
WASHINGTON (March 18, 2019) – Results of a first-of-its-kind prospective study with a family planning app find it to be as effective as other modern methods for avoiding an unplanned pregnancy.
March 24, 2019 | 7:00 pm
WASHINGTON (March 24, 2019) – This month, Georgetown researchers launched a series of mobile games in Nepal to reach young people with information about fertility awareness and family planning.
February 27, 2019 | 3:02 pm
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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