Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is launching its Family Planning and Reproductive Health (FP/RH) Strategy with the goal to increase modern contraceptive prevalence rates in selected urban areas through the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (the "Initiative"). The Initiative will take place in four countries: Uttar Pradesh, India; Nigeria; Kenya; and Senegal. The Initiative involves Country Consortia who will target family planning services to the urban poor to reduce inequity, improve quality of and access to family planning services through integration and private sector programs, and with the aim to increase family planning use. A separate Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) grant was issued to evaluate the effectiveness of the Initiative efforts in the four countries. CPC/UNC was given the MLE grant, which involves developing a core set of indicators and a study design to be used across all four countries. Working with MLE partners: the African Population and Health Research Center, International Center for Research on Women, and the Population Reference Bureau, CPC/UNC will a) evaluate Initiative programs using a rigorous study design, b) build in-country capacity for monitoring and evaluation of urban family planning programs, and c) facilitate knowledge sharing and document best practices from the Initiative programs. This is a six-year project that will collect, analyze, and use data to inform family planning and reproductive health advocacy and programming of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and globally.
Principal Investigator: David K. Guilkey
CPC Fellow Investigator: Shelah S. Bloom , Siân L. Curtis , Ilene S. Speizer , John F. Stewart
Funding Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Grant Number: 52037
Funding Period: 1/1/2009 - 1/11/2015
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