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...
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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.
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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.
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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
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that, to achieve sustained and meaningful improvements in adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health...
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The Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change envisions a world where the powerful influence of social norms in shaping adolescents’ lives...
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Members of the Learning Collaborative share the resources they have identified as most useful to addressing social norms to improve adolescent sexual...
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This document provides an overview of practical experiences of identifying and diagnosing social norms to inform program design and measurement. The...
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This brief presents the results from the pilot applications of the Social Norms Exploration Tool (SNET).
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This factsheet provides the basic information on the Social Norms Exploration Tool (SNET).
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This primer is intended to be used as a resource to assist those who are implementing social norm interventions in thinking through decisions that...
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This working paper, developed by the Theory Group of the Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change (LC), proposes a tailored conceptual...
Blog
April 10, 2019 | 6:59 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...
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.
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