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TĂ©kponon Jikuagou has developed and tested a scalable package of social network activities to engage men and women in discussion and reflection about unmet need for…
Norms play a significant role in behavior change across sectors. What an individual believes others do and what others expect of them can strongly influence…
Growing Up GREAT! is a scalable, multi-level intervention designed to improve reproductive health and gender equity among very young adolescents and the important adults in…
Participatory Community Games to Increase Fertility Awareness and Family Planning Use Developed and tested as part of the FACT Project, Pragati is a social and behavioral…
EDEAN’s Approach to Increasing Fertility Awareness and Demand for Family Planning in Karamoja, Uganda Developed and tested as part of the FACT Project, EDEAN is…
Welcome to the CycleBeads® Integration Guide, a resource for U.S.-based family planning programs who wish to integrate the Standard Days Method® (SDM), used with CycleBeads, into their services.
Standard Days Method (SDM) is a modern, fertility awareness-based method of family planning that is 95% effective when used correctly and 88% with typical use.…
GREAT’s Approach to Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reducing Gender-Based Violence
Addressing deep-seated social, structural, and geographic barriers to enhance the reach of formal health services. In partnership with the Family Health Division and the Rupandehi…
Working Paper: Considerations for Scaling Up Norms-Shifting Interventions for Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health This document, authored by the Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative…
What is Standard Days Method® (SDM)?
IRH partnered with seven organizations to examine the current extent of reproductive health (RH) supplies’ availability via e-commerce, and the likelihood for future expansion through…
IRH, with support from the USAID-funded Passages project and members from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change, developed the…
A guide for group learning and counseling on fertility awareness and family planning Developed and tested as part of the FACT Project, Group Learning and Counseling is…
Fertility Awareness is actionable information about fertility throughout the life course and the ability to apply this knowledge to one’s own circumstances and needs. It…
Guided and informed by the systems-oriented approach espoused in the ExpandNet scale-up framework, this compendium represents a distillation of knowledge and tools for scale-up monitoring,…
TwoDay Method® is a fertility awareness method of family planning that uses cervical secretions to indicate fertility. TwoDay Method services appeal to women who want…
What is TwoDay Method®?
Thank you for participating in the CycleBeads app study! We have finished data analysis, and we are happy to share the results with you.
The Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM) is a short-term family planning method based on the natural effect of breastfeeding on fertility. The act of exclusive breastfeeding…
What is Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM)?
Addressing gender is implicit in our work. We view gender equity —the differences in access and opportunities between women, men, boys, and girls—as a cross cutting issue that must be embedded throughout the design and evaluation of all of reproductive health programs.
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 within an informed choice context.
Technology is changing the world as we know it. We have never been more connected to information or to one another. The internet and mobile phones are shrinking our global borders and providing individuals with access to information and markets like never before.
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…
Transforming Social Norms for Reproductive Health
After more than 20 years of civil strife, the people of northern Uganda face considerable sexual and reproductive health challenges stemming from the massive disruption of services, internal displacement, and erosion of traditional social and family structures.
Developing direct-to-consumer Approaches to Family Planning
Gender-based violence is recognized as a significant health and human rights issue that prevents women, families, and countries around the world from achieving their full potential.
Fertility Awareness for Community Transformation
The FAM Project builds upon the experience of previous USAID-funded projects in which IRH developed, tested and introduced fertility awareness-based methods (FAM) in diverse family planning programs in over 20 countries worldwide.
Tékponon Jikuagou means “doing everything possible to prevent infant mortality” in the local language of Adja in Benin.
What To Do When There Is No Trend Data?
Systematic Scale-Up of Reproductive Health Innovations
IRH provides technical assistance both in-country and internationally in social science research and project monitoring, learning, and evaluation.
Strengthening Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs for Very Young Adolescents (VYA)
Engaging faith-based organizations in family planning
Integration of Gender into Family Planning Programs
Advancing Research and Practice on Normative Change for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Well-being
Bien Grandir Plus! seeks to improve the health and wellbeing of very young adolescent girls and boys aged 10-14 and older adolescents aged 15-19 in…
Religious leaders and faith based organizations (FBOs) have significant, sustained influence on the values and behaviors around healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies.
An estimated 2.5 million people became newly infected with HIV in 2011, and while there have been decreases in new HIV infections and deaths due to AIDS-related causes in recent years, there are still 34 million people living with HIV worldwide.
Growing Up Great: The Way Forward (TWF), the follow-on phase of Growing Up GREAT! (GUG!), applies a longitudinal perspective, strong implementation learning agenda and…
The Masculinities, Faith, and Peace Project aims to reduce sexual and gender-based violence, increase healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies, and improve inter-religious relationships. The…
Mobilizing faith-based organizations to expand family planning
Providing women with accurate information about their fertility can serve as the critical link that helps them make timely, healthy choices about family planning.
IRH has led the research and implementation of USAID’s natural family planning portfolio for several decades.
The Institute for Reproductive Health provides technical assistance to integrate fertility awareness-based methods service delivery and contextually adapt GrowUp Smart curriculum into the Girma project. As…
Expanding Family Planning Access, Availability, and Awareness
UNICEF-Senegal has contracted with the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) to develop a methodological guide aimed at assisting field-based stakeholders in female genital mutilations/cutting…