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(re)solve

The (re)solve project accelerates the pace of contraceptive uptake among women and girls in the developing world. Through its unique, cross-disciplinary approach, (re)solve challenges current assumptions and tests new approaches based on context-specific behavioral insights, generating adaptable, scalable solutions that address unmet need for family planning.
Project Date: 2016 - present
Funder: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Country: Bangladesh Burkina Faso Ethiopia
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25% of married women of reproductive age in Ethiopia want to stop or delay childbearing but are not using a family planning method

DEOMOGRAPHIC & HEALTH SURVEY 2011

By the age of 18, 60% of girls in Bangladesh are married and 48% have given birth

UNICEF

Only 6.6% of married young women ages 15-19 in Burkina Faso are using a modern form of contraception

DEMOGRAPHIC & HEALTH SURVEY 2010

The two most frequently cited reasons of contraceptive non-use are infrequent sex and concerns around side-effects

STUDIES IN FAMILY PLANNING 2014

What We Do

  • Develop new and innovative solutions that can be effectively applied to improve decision making about use and continuation of modern contraception and to gain insights on fertility preferences, method-specific perspectives, the role of men and masculinity, gender, and household dynamics
  • Increase evidence and programmatic understanding on how and when to apply cost-effective cross-disciplinary levers and approaches to test new solutions and improve existing interventions to increase the modern contraceptive prevalence rate
  • Increase uptake of effective ways to apply cross-disciplinary approaches in designing, implementing, and monitoring interventions to better address reasons for non use
  • Bring together the consortium of partners—ideas42, Camber Collective, and International Center for Research on Women—to deliver real, lasting change

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Reshma Trasi

Project Director, (re)solve

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