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Fill a critical gap in family planning programs
 
www.StandardDaysMethod.org  
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Involve Communities

We strive to involve communities in reproductive health interventions that improve wellbeing.

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Open the door to community transformation
 
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Expand Family Planning Choices
We strive to expand family planning choices to meet the needs of women and men worldwide.
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Meet women’s needs by integrating SDM
 
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Advance Gender Equality

We strive to help men and women across the lifecycle learn about and take charge of their reproductive health.

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Fill a critical gap in family planning programs
 
www.StandardDaysMethod.org  
Learn More
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Involve Communities

We strive to involve communities in reproductive health interventions that improve wellbeing.

Learn More
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Open the door to community transformation
 
www.StandardDaysMethod.org
Learn More
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Expand Family Planning Choices
We strive to expand family planning choices to meet the needs of women and men worldwide.
Learn More
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Meet women’s needs by integrating SDM
 
www.StandardDaysMethod.org
Learn More
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Advance Gender Equality

We strive to help men and women across the lifecycle learn about and take charge of their reproductive health.

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Focus Areas
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Gender Equality
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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Family Planning
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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Adolescents
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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Fertility Awareness
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 contraception interconnect...
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Strategic Scale-up
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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Mobilizing technology for reproductive health
IRH recognizes the opportunity to leverage technology to improve reproductive health outcomes.
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Monitoring, Learning & Evaluation
IRH is an applied research organization that focuses on implementation science; monitoring, learning and evaluation (MLE) is intrinsic to our work.
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Projects
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FACT Project
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.
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Projects
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A3 Project
The A3 Project uses a multi-pronged approach to leverage under-utilized channels and emerging pathways to expand access to family planning information and services.
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GREAT Project
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.
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Tékponon Jikuagou
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.
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REAL Fathers Initiative
The REAL Fathers Initiative aims to build positive parenting practices among young fathers in post-conflict Northern Uganda to reduce the incidence of violence.
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FAM Project
The FAM Project builds upon the experience of previous USAID-funded projects in which IRH developed, tested and introduced fertility awareness-based methods (FAM)...
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New & Underused Methods
The project’s purpose is to develop and disseminate a guide to help family planning programs meet forecasting needs when there is no trend data.
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Technical Assistance
IRH provides technical assistance both in-country and internationally in social science research and project monitoring, learning, and evaluation.
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U.S. Projects
We engage with a wide range of public and private sector programs across the country to include fertility awareness methods (FAM) among the choice of methods they offer to clients.
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Resources
GrowUp Smart Storybook, Rwanda
The A3 Project is working with youth-serving organizations in Rwanda to improve the sexual and reproductive health of very young adolescents...
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Resources
[Webinar] Partnering with Very Young Adolescents (VYA) to Improve Sexual & Reproductive Health
Everyone has been talking about the need to focus programs and research on Very Young Adolescents (VYA). On February 18, the VYA Alliance hosted a...
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Addressing Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence Among Adolescents: Emerging Evidence of Effectiveness
“Addressing Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence Among Adolescents: Emerging Evidence of Effectiveness,” authored by Rebecka...
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[Brief] Exploring the Links between Developmental Assets and SRH among VYAs
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Presentations + Sticky Wall Report: Working with Fathers to Reduce Family Violence
The following is a compilation of presentations shared during a MenEngage satellite session learning collaborative hosted by IRH and partners called, “Working with Fathers to Reduce Family Violence: Experiences & Lessons Learned” on November 10, 2014 in New Delhi, India.
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New Report: Developmental Assets and SRH among 10-14 Year Olds in Uganda
With support from USAID, IRH and Search Institute collaborated to conduct a study of very young adolescents (ages 10 to14) in a developing country setting (north central Uganda), examining the link between internal and external assets the youth may experience, and their sexual and reproductive health.
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[Brief] Consultation on Very Young Adolescents (VYA) in Uganda
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[Brief] Male Engagement in Family Planning: Reducing Unmet Need by Addressing Gender Norms
In 2013, with funding from USAID, IRH conducted an initial review of recent literature and programs on male engagement in sexual and reproductive health.
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Increasing literate and illiterate women’s met need for contraception via empowerment: a quasi-experiment in rural India
Published in Reproductive Health Journal, this peer-reviewed article reviews data from a three-year quasi-experiment conducted in two comparable,...
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May 8, 2015 | 1:54 pm
Secondary Outcomes of Male Involvement in Family Planning Interventions
We look forward to welcoming Dominick Shattuck to IRH in June as a Senior Research Officer! [Originally posted on K4Health's blog here] Over the last 30 years, the focus of most family planning interventions has been on the female user rather than...
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March 3, 2015 | 2:26 pm
Finding the Common Language between Public-Private Partnerships
[Originally posted on UN Foundation's Global Connection blog here] This blog is part of the Innovation Working Group mHealth Catalytic Grant series, highlighting the impact of mobile technology on global health and development. Learn more about the...
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February 27, 2015 | 11:07 am
Christian organizations in Africa say ‘Yes’ to family planning and showcase their progress
In February 2015, the African Christian Health Associations Platform (ACHAP) convened its biennial conference in Nairobi, Kenya. ACHAP has demonstrated a growing interest in strengthening the family planning programs of its member...
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