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Tackling the Taboo focuses on the need to address social control of adolescent girls’ sexuality in the fight against child, early and forced marriage and unions, and highlights the vital role played by gender-transformative program. The report presents findings from a review of 23 organizations that work at the intersection of child marriage and sexuality, [more…]
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Effective supervision approaches and practices help compensate for shortfalls in human resources for health (HRH) training, management, and efforts to improve the quality of health services. USAID’s HRH2030 program conducted a landscape analysis report that classifies and summarizes impactful enhancements for health workforce supervision and the direct effects on maternal, newborn, and child health; HIV; [more…]
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With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Children’s Investment Fund Foundation the Adolescents 360 project (A360), implemented by PSI, convened young designers and a group of multidisciplinary experts to understand what matters to girls, and how organizations can work with them to pave new pathways for contraceptive access. PSI and the A360 [more…]
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The Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Initiative, the Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises (IAWG), UNFPA, IPPF, and WHO convened over 40 organizations in Istanbul to share experiences, tools, and resources about sexual and reproductive health and rights programming across the humanitarian development nexus. Ten key issues emerged as priorities to consider when implementing [more…]
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Pregnancy clubs reflect an important innovation in how antenatal care (ANC) services are delivered and how health providers and women partner with each other toward shared goals. While this approach holds promise in meeting the social support and information needs of pregnant women and for improving the quality and coverage of ANC, further implementation experience [more…]
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Save the Children is excited to share a new resource with guidance for designing programs to address gender inequity and sexual and reproductive health among very young adolescents (VYAs). The Very Young Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health and Gender Program Design Guide offers evidence-based considerations for program design, as well as guidance for the selection [more…]
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Communities of practice are defined as groups of people who interact regularly to share information, insight, experience and tools about an area of common interest (Wenger 2002). Each community of practice is unique in terms of its formation, structure, and character (click here to learn more about managing and measuring communities). All communities, in some [more…]
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High Impact Practices (HIPs) are a set of evidence-based family planning practices vetted by experts against specific criteria and documented in an easy-to-use format. Endorsed by more than 30 organizations, HIPs help build consensus around our current understanding of what works in family planning. HIPs are identified based on impact on contraceptive use and potential [more…]
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Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) is a global partnership to empower women and girls by investing in rights-based family planning. FP2020’s Catalyzing Collaboration report highlights achievements of FP2020 over the past six years, and outlines the model for moving their work forward towards the post-2020 world and Sustainable Development Goals. The report highlights FP2020’s multisectoral approach [more…]
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Despite the progress toward achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services, we are not there yet. Public health approaches alone will not be enough to reach these ambitious goals Evidence-based health interventions are known, but their impact is limited by common barriers such as lack of access, poor quality of services, and [more…]
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