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October 2012

Support for Scale-Up of Comprehensive Abortion Care in Northern Ghana-Technical Update

This technical update discusses Pathfinder's global CAC approach and experience in Ghana, as well as the government's recent endorsement to scale up the approach in the north.

July 2012

Increasing Access to Quality Health Services in Kenya's North Eastern Province

For five years, APHIAplus Northern Arid Lands has implemented a strategy to increase local health system and community capacity for quality health service delivery. This brief discusses the project’s experience in Kenya's North Eastern Province, providing recommendations for future efforts.

January 2013

PRACHAR: Advancing Young People’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in India

This technical brief summarizes the evolution of PRACHAR, describes the intervention model and key evaluation results that informed each phase, and highlights next steps for dissemination and advocacy based on 11 years of project learning.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Advocacy
Behavior Change
Contraception & Family Planning
Gender
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Region
Asia
Country
India
Year
2013
January 2013

Straight to the Point: Identifying and Prioritizing Behavior Change Needs

Organizations and groups can use this tool to guide a group activity with members of the community they work with in order to identify the major barriers to adopting a specific healthier behavior and to prioritize which barriers should be addressed first.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Behavior Change
Contraception & Family Planning
Gender
HIV & AIDS
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Region
Global
Year
2013
January 2013

Empowering Communities through Integrated Systems Strengthening in Northern Mozambique

This brief articulates SCIP’s strategy of integrated systems strengthening, shares a snapshot of its implementation status, and highlights next steps for the project’s remaining two years.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Behavior Change
Contraception & Family Planning
Gender
HIV & AIDS
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Systems Strengthening
Region
Global
Country
Mozambique
Year
2013
January 2013

Pathfinder's Integrated Systems Strengthening Framework

This publication offers a concise overview of Pathfinder’s Integrated Systems Strengthening framework, which is our strategy for connecting people to systems and systems to people.

Focus Area
Abortion
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Advocacy
Behavior Change
Contraception & Family Planning
Gender
HIV & AIDS
Maternal & Newborn Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Systems Strengthening
Region
Global
Year
2013
November 2012

Driving Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health

In 2012, Pathfinder went where the need was greatest—the places where women, men, and young people must fight every day to defend their sexual and reproductive health and rights. This annual report explores our successes during fiscal year 2012.

Focus Area
Abortion
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Advocacy
Behavior Change
Contraception & Family Planning
Gender
HIV & AIDS
Maternal & Newborn Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Systems Strengthening
Region
Global
Year
2012
October 2012

Support for Scale-Up of Comprehensive Abortion Care in Northern Ghana-Technical Update

This technical update discusses Pathfinder's global CAC approach and experience in Ghana, as well as the government's recent endorsement to scale up the approach in the north.

Focus Area
Abortion
Contraception & Family Planning
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Systems Strengthening
Region
Africa
Country
Ghana
Year
2012
August 2012

Research and Evaluation Working Paper Series

The purpose of the Working Paper Series is to disseminate work in progress by Pathfinder International staff on critical issues of population, reproductive health, and development.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Advocacy
Contraception & Family Planning
Maternal & Newborn Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Region
Africa
Asia
Country
Bangladesh
India
Nigeria
Tanzania
Year
2012
April 2012

Bringing Youth-Friendly Services to Scale in Ethiopia

Stigma, service costs, and provider bias pose formidable barriers to Ethiopian young people's ability to access sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Behavior Change
Contraception & Family Planning
HIV & AIDS
Region
Africa
Country
Ethiopia
Year
2012
March 2012

Introducing Integrated Mobile Teams to Burundi: Technical Update

Recognizing the need for integrated packages of basic health services to reach internally displaced persons, in 2011 Pathfinder-Burundi began an innovative service delivery approach. Leveraging its internal expertise, Pathfinder and its partners have introduced integrated mobile teams.

Focus Area
Behavior Change
Contraception & Family Planning
HIV & AIDS
Maternal & Newborn Health
Region
Africa
Country
Burundi
Year
2012
March 2012

Nigeria's Clinical and Community Action to Address Postpartum Hemorrhage: Technical Update

With the support of the MacArthur Foundation, since 2007 Pathfinder International has implemented the Continuum of Care: Addressing Postpartum Hemorrhage project to prevent and manage PPH in India and Nigeria.

Focus Area
Advocacy
Maternal & Newborn Health
Region
Africa
Country
Nigeria
Year
2012
January 2012

The Effect of Reproductive Health Communication Interventions on Age at Marriage and First Birth in Rural Bihar, India

This paper describes the results of a survey of participants in an adolescent education program implemented by the PRACHAR project in rural Bihar.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Contraception & Family Planning
Maternal & Newborn Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Region
Asia
Country
India
Year
2012
December 2011

Breaking Down Barriers

Pathfinder's 2011 Annual Report, "Breaking Down Barriers," looks at the obstacles people face in accessing sexual and reproductive health care and what Pathfinder has done in the past year to break these barriers down.

Focus Area
Abortion
Behavior Change
Region
Global
Year
2011
November 2011

Scale-Up of Task-Shifting for Community-Based Provision of Implanon, Technical Summary 2009-2011

The Integrated Family Health Program (IFHP) is a five-year USAID-funded program to promote an integrated model for strengthening maternal and child health, family planning, and reproductive health services in Ethiopia.

Focus Area
Contraception & Family Planning
Maternal & Newborn Health
Systems Strengthening
Region
Africa
Country
Ethiopia
Year
2011
November 2011

PRACHAR: Promoting Change In Reproductive Behavior In Bihar, India Summary Report Of Phase II Evaluation Findings

This report summarizes evaluation findings from Phases I and II of the PRACHAR project, a community-based adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights program implemented in rural Bihar, India.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Behavior Change
Contraception & Family Planning
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Region
Asia
Country
India
Year
2011
July 2011

Integrating Communities into the Health System: The Takamol Project Summary Review

This summary review provides analysis of Pathfinder-Egypt's Takamol project and includes description of program strategy and evaluation results.

Focus Area
Contraception & Family Planning
Maternal & Newborn Health
Systems Strengthening
Region
Near East
Country
Egypt
Year
2011
May 2011

Advancing Family Planning for Improved Reproductive Health in Northern Nigeria

Pathfinder's Private Sector Family Planning Service Delivery Project (2000- 2011) pioneered advancements in family planning and reproductive health service delivery in northern Nigeria.

Focus Area
Contraception & Family Planning
Systems Strengthening
Region
Africa
Country
Nigeria
Year
2011
January 2011

Why Youth?

Investing in the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and youth has never been more important. Read the top ten reasons why the global community should invest in young people today

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Gender
Advocacy
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Region
Global
Year
2011
January 2011

3 Billion Reasons Campaign Overview

With the launch of the 3 Billion Reasons campaign, Pathfinder International is calling global attention to the world's some 3 billion young people, the largest generation of young people in history

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Advocacy
Gender
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Region
Global
Year
2011
January 2010

Healthy Images of Manhood: A Male Engagement Approach for Workplaces and Community Programs Integrating Gender, Family Planning, and HIV/AIDS

Healthy Images of Manhood (HIM) was launched in January 2008 in partnership with Unilever Tea Tanzania Ltd. at the company's estates in south-central Tanzania.

Focus Area
HIV & AIDS
Contraception & Family Planning
Gender
Advocacy
Region
Africa
Country
Tanzania
Year
2010
January 2010

ESD Model: Mobilizing Muslim Imams and Religious Leaders as "Champions" of Reproductive Health and Family Planning

This paper depicts ESD's model for engaging religious leaders as "champions" of reproductive health and family planning, which is applied in Bangladesh, Nigeria, Pakistan and Yemen.

Focus Area
Contraception & Family Planning
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Advocacy
Region
Near East
Country
Bangladesh
Year
2010
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