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Increasing Access to Quality Health Services in Kenya's North Eastern Province
For five years, APHIAplus Northern Arid Lands has implemented a strategy to increase local health system and community capacity for quality health service delivery. This brief discusses the project’s experience in Kenya's North Eastern Province, providing recommendations for future efforts.
Strengthening Strategic Health Information Systems in Kenya's North Eastern Province
This technical brief discusses steps taken by the project to meet challenges to the use of strategic health information in Kenya’s North Eastern Province, and provides recommendations for future similar efforts in comparable contexts.
PRAGYA: Multisectoral, Gendered Approach to Improve Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health for Young People
PRAGYA, meaning "insight" in Sanskrit, is a mixed methods study commissioned by USAID and conducted by Pathfinder India to improve understanding of the effects of Phases I and II of the PRACHAR project.
PRACHAR: Advancing Young People’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in India
This technical brief summarizes the evolution of PRACHAR, describes the intervention model and key evaluation results that informed each phase, and highlights next steps for dissemination and advocacy based on 11 years of project learning.
Research and Evaluation Working Paper Series
The purpose of the Working Paper Series is to disseminate work in progress by Pathfinder International staff on critical issues of population, reproductive health, and development.
The Effect of Reproductive Health Communication Interventions on Age at Marriage and First Birth in Rural Bihar, India
This paper describes the results of a survey of participants in an adolescent education program implemented by the PRACHAR project in rural Bihar.
PRACHAR: Promoting Change In Reproductive Behavior In Bihar, India Summary Report Of Phase II Evaluation Findings
This report summarizes evaluation findings from Phases I and II of the PRACHAR project, a community-based adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights program implemented in rural Bihar, India.
PRACHAR: Promoting Change in Reproductive Health Behavior of Adolescents in Bihar, India
This document outlines PRACHAR’s interventions that are intended to empower adolescents to successfully use contraception to plan their families.
Comprehensive Safe Abortion Programming: The Pathfinder International Approach
This paper presents Pathfinder's comprehensive approach to safe abortion programming including provider training, client friendly counseling, addressing the needs of vulnerable populations including youth, community mobilization, and advocacy.
A Reproductive Health Communication Model That Helps Improve Young Women's Reproductive Life and Reduce Population Growth: The Case of PRACHAR from Bihar, India
This paper shows that culturally acceptable and community-focused interventions geared to young people can help increase age of marriage, increase contraceptive use among young couples, and provide populations better access to reproductive health services.
The Effect of Community-Based Reproductive Health Communication Interventions on Contraceptive Use Among Married Couples in Bihar, India, International Family Planning Perspectives
In this paper, authors Elkan E. Daniel et al., compared family planning attitudes, knowledge, and behavior among young women in three Bihar districts before and after the implementation of a program.
Improving Access to Safe Abortion Care and Services in Northern Karnataka, India,
Pathfinder commissioned a baseline study prior to the implementation of the Improved Access to Safe Abortion Care project (IASAC) and a midterm assessment after about a year of implementation.
Improved Access to Safe Abortion Care, Karnataka India
Pathfinder International undertook the Improved Access to Safe Abortion Care project (IASAC), an innovative program designed to improve the quality of abortion training for medical students, and improve the skills of a significant number of current abortion providers.
Changing Reproductive Health Behavior in Youth: A Cultural Shift in Bihar, India
The PRACHAR Project offers unique lessons in how to improve the health and welfare of adolescent and young mothers and their children by changing traditional customs of early childbearing.
Reproducive Health of Young Adults in India: The Road to Public Health
This report describes the Reproductive Health of Young Adults in India (RHEYA) project. RHEYA's goal was to delay early marriage, increase the use of contraception, and to reduce the use of abortion as a method of contraception.
CATALYST - A Compendium of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities Worldwide
From 2000 to 2005, Pathfinder International served as the managing partner of the CATALYST Consortium, a global reproductive health initiative.
Promoting Change in the Reproductive Behavior of Youth, Pathfinder International's PRACHAR Project, Bihar, India
This report offers a detailed overview of the PRACHAR project's successful efforts to reduce early marriage, to delay childbirth among young women, and to space subsequent births.
CATALYST - Birth Spacing Grants Compilation Document
For decades, health care providers have recommended two-year birth spacing. New research shows an association between longer birth intervals and improved maternal and child health outcomes.
India: TARSHI-Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues with Youth: A Telephone Hotline (Chandiramani, 1999)
India: TARSHI-Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues with Youth: A Telephone Hotline (Chandiramani, 1999)