Promising Practices for Scale-Up: A Prospective Case Study of Standard Days Method® Integration

This executive summary and full report present conclusions from a six-year, five-country initiative conducted by the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) and its many in-country partners to scale up Standard Days Method® (SDM) of family planning. SDM is itself not the topic of this document. Rather, the SDM scale-up experience is the source of the contributions that IRH makes to global knowledge of the process of scaling up tested health service innovations.

Keywords: Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, India, Mali, Rwanda