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11/26/2019

In Kinshasa, a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo with over 3.7 million regular churchgoers, working with faith leaders is key to realizing long-lasting and far-reaching change in transforming gender norms.

The USAID Global Health-supported Passages Project “Masculinity, Family and Faith” activity brought together young Gender Champions and faith leaders to transform gender norms in their faith communities, where intimate partner violence is common, and access to modern voluntary family planning services is limited. As a result of this intervention, young Gender Champions in the DRC are bringing about change in their own lives, intimate relationships, and families. Learn more during of Activism against Gender-based Violence: https://medium.com/usaid-2030/from-my-transformation-to-yours-52a74a53c014

“Gender Champions” share their journeys to transform gender norms in faith communities

11/18/2019

Perfect- and typical-use effectiveness of the Dot fertility app over 13 cycles: results from a prospective contraceptive effectiveness trial Victoria Jennings, Liya T. Haile, Rebecca G. Simmons, Jeff Spieler & Dominick Shattuck To cite this article: Victoria Jennings, Liya T. Haile, Rebecca G. Simmo...

06/19/2019

Have you ever seen a performance you just couldn’t stop talking about? In the Karamoja region of Uganda, EDEAN- a community theater program- had this effect on Nakut, a performer in the short dramas who continues to promote healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies to her family and community. In a new blog post, learn how IRH and Save the Children, funded by USAID, implemented this unconventional, but culturally-sensitive approach which was able to improve fertility awareness and intention to use family planning. Read the full story: http://bit.ly/IRH_EDEAN

In Uganda, community members perform in skits to help couples learn about family planning

03/25/2019

This earlier this month, we launched a series of mobile games in Nepal to reach young people with information about fertility awareness and family planning. Our hope is that these games will give adolescents a safe space learn about their bodies.

The free games are available now for Android. Download or see a preview of the games here!
http://www.stories.irh.org/pragati #/using-apps/

03/22/2019

On Monday, the Dot Study team published results of their study of the Dot fertility app. The first-of-its-kind study examined how women used the app to prevent pregnancy over 13 menstrual cycles.

The researchers found that the app had a typical-use failure rate of 5 percent and a perfect-use failure rate of 1 percent, which makes Dot comparable to family planning methods such as the pill, vaginal ring, and other fertility awareness-based methods.

Check out the full study:

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. Researchers from the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) at Georgetown University Medical Center stu...

03/19/2019

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.

03/11/2019

"Forbidden to participate in daily life, Nepalese girls are speaking out against menstrual shaming."

Forbidden to participate in daily life, Nepalese girls are speaking out against menstrual shaming.

03/05/2019

"As in many pursuits in life, the devil is in the details." Check out the latest blog post in the Learning Collaborative series to learn more about why proper documentation and costing of interventions matters for .

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 collectively to build knowledge and tools to promote and guid...

02/28/2019

"We often read about exciting interventions that show impressive results and call for wide-scale adoption. Yet all too frequently, there is little to no information to help plan such a replication, let alone determine how much it might cost."

Check out the latest blog in the Learning Collaborative's series, by Rick Homan of FHI 360!

http://irh.org/blog/measurement_5/

02/25/2019

"A movie about periods just won an Oscar!" It absolutely did. Now is the time to educate girls and boys around the globe about their bodies.

Our Pragati Games and the soon to be released Nari Paila mobile games do just that. Currently in more than 56 districts of Nepal and launching the mobile app for free download on Android March 6, we are ready to meet this demand. Explore the Pragati games and research: http://www.stories.irh.org/

02/20/2019

Attending ? Don't miss the IRH team! Our full schedule of events, presentations, and posters is now available! We'll see you there! http://bit.ly/2IpLUaB

02/20/2019

Exciting news! The French version of the How-To Guide is now available! Download the "Guide Practique" in full or by individual chapter:

This How-To Guide will provide you and your staff with the tools and instructions you need to implement the GREAT Project in your community.

02/11/2019

“People used to blame women, thinking that they had a role in deciding the gender of the child. But most people know now, because of the program, that it is mainly men who determine the gender and no one is to blame." - KULDIP, HEALTH ASSISTANT

In many countries, traditional norms prioritize sons over daughters. The Son/Daughter Game is an adaptation of an earlier game, implemented by CARE, that challenges entrenched social and gender norms around son preference and gender discrimination.

Watch the game in action and learn more ➡️ http://www.stories.irh.org/pragati #/son-daughter-game/

02/08/2019

What's next for the Pragati games? We've collaborated with GRID to turn three of the Pragati games into apps!

The mobile games will debut in March, but you can check out a preview today! 📲

http://www.stories.irh.org/pragati #/using-apps/

02/07/2019

Certain reproductive health topics are difficult to discuss openly. Pragati — a package of nine interactive games tested in Nepal — overcame these difficulties and sparked conversations in communities around fertility, family planning, side-effects of family planning methods, and social norms.

The story of Pragati is best told by the men and women who made the project possible.

We’ve compiled their stories in a new multimedia site, alongside the Pragati resources and videos of the games in action. We invite you to experience Pragati for yourself!

This site preserves the story of the FACT Project's Pragati intervention in Nepal, as told by the men and women who made this project possible.

01/30/2019

Socio- normative influences on family planning was a highly present theme at . This awareness and interest is exciting for the Learning Collaborative—bringing new opportunities to engage with more folks, learn from one another, and share our resources with others.

Learn more about the buzz around social norms in our new blog post, the fourth in a series from the Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change.

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 collectively to build knowledge and tools to promote and guid...