PMA2020 is a five-year project to gather information about family planning, water and sanitation, and related health issues in 10 countries across Africa and Asia, including Kenya. Women like Zipporah Sakhasia, called Resident Enumerators, conduct the surveys in our local communities. They enter the data into smartphones and then upload it to a central server, where it’s immediately available for analysis and reporting.
Month: July 2015
Informed Choice: One Text Message at a Time
Today, more Mozambicans are using mobile phones than ever before. What if we could use these phones to share accurate, clear information about sexual health contraceptives with youth? Could we deliver this information in a creative way that fosters reflection and dialogue, ensuring young people have full and informed choice? Yes. Here’s proof.
Empowerment: Women in Ghana Take Charge of their Reproductive Lives
Rahinatu is 18 years old and works in one of Accra’s busiest markets. She has travelled down to Accra from Northern Ghana to work as a kayayei (market porter), hoping to save enough money to buy the household goods and utensils she’ll need before she can get married. She has worked in the markets for six months, but life as a kayayei is desperately hard. Women and girls like Rahinatu sleep rough in market stall doorways or in abandoned boxes, and are highly vulnerable to sexual harassment and rape.
Acceptability: Listening to What Women Want
By: John Townsend, Population Council Providing a range of safe and effective contraceptive methods that enable women to plan their families promotes gender equality and female empowerment. But if manufacturers and designers don’t take women’s preferences and life contexts into account, a new product could fail to meet their needs and end up as a… Continue reading Acceptability: Listening to What Women Want
Accessibility: Breaking Down the Barriers between Women and Family Planning
By Moazzam Ali, Regional Manager for Asia and Pacific Regions at the Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, and Jean José Nzau Mvuezolo, Senior Regional Advisor/SAF PAC Initiative, CARE USA What keeps women from accessing family planning services? In Pakistan, as in many low-income countries, one of the obstacles is cost. Pakistan’s state-run… Continue reading Accessibility: Breaking Down the Barriers between Women and Family Planning
Availability: Keeping Contraceptives on the Shelves in Senegal
A 2011 public health survey in Senegal revealed a startling discrepancy: 43 percent of married Senegalese women told researchers that they wanted to avoid or postpone pregnancy. Yet only 12 percent of women were actually using contraception.
Agency and Autonomy: Reaching Quake Survivors in Nepal with Lifesaving Reproductive Care
On April 25, 2015, Nepal was struck by its worst earthquake in nearly a century. Measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, the quake destroyed nearly 600,000 and damaged almost 300,000 homes, and displaced some 2.8 million people. More than 8,800 people were killed; tens of thousands were injured. Powerful aftershocks have compounded the devastation.
At Three-year Anniversary of FP2020, Celebrating Examples of Rights-based Family Planning in the Field
By: Beth Schlachter Executive Director, Family Planning 2020 Three years ago, global leaders gathered in London with an ambitious goal. The occasion was the landmark 2012 London Summit on Family Planning. And the goal was to empower an additional 120 million women and girls to control their own fertility and have access to modern contraception, services… Continue reading At Three-year Anniversary of FP2020, Celebrating Examples of Rights-based Family Planning in the Field
