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(re)solve

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Overview
2016–2022

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 Activities


  • Developed 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.
  • Increased 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.
  • Increased uptake of effective ways to apply cross-disciplinary approaches in designing, implementing, and monitoring interventions to better address reasons for non use.
  • Brought together the consortium of partners—ideas42, Camber Collective, and International Center for Research on Women—to deliver real, lasting change.
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Cecelia Angelone

Senior Program Officer

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