Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative
The Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, a multi-country program targeting the urban poor, develops cost-effective integrated family planning interventions to improve reproductive health outcomes. The Initiative links country-level consortia with evaluation experts on the Measurement, Learning & Evaluation project to build a robust evidence and knowledge base that will shape future urban family planning/reproductive health policies and programs.
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Overcoming Social and Religious Barriers to Family Planning Services Among Senegal’s Urban Poor.
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Surmonter les barrières religieuses et sociales à la planification familiale en zones défavorisées des milieux urbains au Sénégal.
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PublicationsSocial determinants of sexual and reproductive health: informing future research and programme implementation
While the last two decades have seen improvements in access to and utilization of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, progress in many countries has been slow. This WHO publication examines the potential role that persistent inequities in health play in hindering progress towards achieving international and national development goals, and offers solutions for policy makers and program implementers. Maternal mortality in the informal settlements of Nairobi city: what do we know?
Current estimates of maternal mortality ratios in Kenya are at least as high as 560 deaths per 100,000 live births. Given the pervasive poverty and lack of quality health services in slum areas, the maternal mortality situation in this setting can only be expected to be worse. This paper estimates the burden and causes of maternal mortality in two slums of Nairobi City, Kenya. Multidimensional Poverty Index
The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) has developed a new international measure of poverty – the Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI. The new innovative index goes beyond a traditional focus on income to reflect the multiple deprivations that a poor person faces with respect to education, health and living standard. The report includes analyses of global multidimensional poverty across 104 developing countries, including India, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal. Insecurity and Indignity: Women's experiences in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya
This report demonstrates that lack of access to toilets and private bathing areas in the immediate vicinity of the home puts women in slums of Nairobi at risk of gender-based violence and undermines their dignity and health. Nairobi's informal settlements have been excluded from public services such as water, sanitation and adequate policing. |
Upcoming EventsGlobal Maternal Health Conference 2010 The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) will convene the event at which maternal health experts and will discuss six themes: maternal health interventions and programs, underlying factors affecting maternal health, measurement–trends and methods, reproductive health, health systems, and policy and advocacy. For those interested in attending the conference and receiving information about participating in the conference remotely please email Ms. Dipti at diptirajvanshi@indiattitude.com Impact Evaluation Training and Conference Researchers, NGOs, consulting companies and policy makers in the Netherlands will acquire an overview of cutting edge techniques, their policy uses and practical skills for impact evaluation and apply these to their own project work. Participants will work in teams on the "hands-on" design of an impact evaluation and implementation plans for their project. The Global Evaluation Conclave 2010: Making Evaluation Matter This event will bring together sector experts, leading practitioners, thought leaders and development professionals from across the globe to examine the broader issues of evaluation use and questions, and the ways the experimenting evaluation community is, or should begin, addressing those questions through methodological innovation. The Lancet Conferences: Women’s Health in Asia The Lancet Conference on Women's Health in Asia will bring together world-leading experts to review the latest research and to debate the most effective strategies for improved sexual health and diagnosis, treatment, and management of disorders affecting women. Topics will include: Fertility and sterility; Obstetrics; Urogynaecology; Menopause; Public-health strategies; Cervical cancer and HPV; Women's health and cancer |
The urban poor have unique challenges to increase use of contraceptives; the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative in Senegal strives to change policy (improve the policy context) and to expand access to family planning services and commodities.
