Tékponon 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…
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…
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…
GREAT’s Approach to Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reducing Gender-Based Violence
What is Standard Days Method® (SDM)?
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Contents, Disclaimer, Privacy, and Copyright on the IRH Website The Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) follows Georgetown University’s established policies on copyright, disclaimers, and terms…
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 TwoDay Method®?
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Transforming Masculinities is an evidence-based approach created by Tearfund to promote gender equality and positive masculinities to reduce violence within faith communities. It is based upon the…
IRH has contributed to a range of health initiatives in over 30 countries worldwide. Use the interactive map to explore our work in each country.…
What is Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM)?
Our Mission Through partnership with international and local organizations, the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) at Georgetown University strives to: expand family planning choices to…
Our Mission
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.
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.
Beginning with the end in mind.
What To Do When There Is No Trend Data?
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.
Integration of Gender into Family Planning Programs
Engaging faith-based organizations in family planning
Tékponon Jikuagou means “doing everything possible to prevent infant mortality” in the local language of Adja in Benin.
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
Developing direct-to-consumer Approaches to Family Planning
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…
IRH provides technical assistance both in-country and internationally in social science research and project monitoring, learning, and evaluation.
Systematic Scale-Up of Reproductive Health Innovations
Strengthening Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs for Very Young Adolescents (VYA)
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.
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.
IRH has led the research and implementation of USAID’s natural family planning portfolio for several decades.
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.
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
Advancing Research and Practice on Normative Change for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Well-being
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…
Providing women with accurate information about their fertility can serve as the critical link that helps them make timely, healthy choices about family planning.
Expanding Family Planning Access, Availability, and Awareness