Our Mission Through partnership with international and local organizations, the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) at Georgetown University strives to: expand family planning choices to…
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Poverty can limit the choices and opportunities people have, particularly those related to sexual and reproductive health. IRH believes in expanding options for women, men,…
Welcome to the CycleBeads® Integration Guide, a resource for U.S.-based family planning programs who wish to integrate the Standard Days Method® (SDM), used with CycleBeads, into their services.
Guided and informed by the systems-oriented approach espoused in the ExpandNet scale-up framework, this compendium represents a distillation of knowledge and tools for scale-up monitoring,…
What is Standard Days Method® (SDM)?
What is TwoDay Method®?
What is Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM)?
Beginning with the end in mind.
IRH is first and foremost an applied research organization that focuses on implementation science; monitoring, learning and evaluation (MLE) is intrinsic to our work.
IRH is committed to meeting the evolving family planning needs of women and couples throughout the lifecycle by ensuring they have access to a broad range of options within an informed choice context.
Studies conducted by IRH in numerous countries, and corroborated by Demographic and Health Surveys and other studies, have shown that few women, men, and adolescents really understand their fertility and the way in which their bodies work.
Early adolescence is a critical transition period in young people’s lives. Yet this age group is often overlooked by youth-serving programs.
Addressing gender is implicit in our work. We view gender equity —the differences in access and opportunities between women, men, boys, and girls—as a cross cutting issue that must be embedded throughout the design and evaluation of all of reproductive health programs.
Technology is changing the world as we know it. We have never been more connected to information or to one another. The internet and mobile phones are shrinking our global borders and providing individuals with access to information and markets like never before.
IRH has led the research and implementation of USAID’s natural family planning portfolio for several decades.
The FAM Project builds upon the experience of previous USAID-funded projects in which IRH developed, tested and introduced fertility awareness-based methods (FAM) in diverse family planning programs in over 20 countries worldwide.
Mobilizing faith-based organizations to expand family planning
Tékponon Jikuagou means “doing everything possible to prevent infant mortality” in the local language of Adja in Benin.
After more than 20 years of civil strife, the people of northern Uganda face considerable sexual and reproductive health challenges stemming from the massive disruption of services, internal displacement, and erosion of traditional social and family structures.
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Systematic Scale-Up of Reproductive Health Innovations
An estimated 2.5 million people became newly infected with HIV in 2011, and while there have been decreases in new HIV infections and deaths due to AIDS-related causes in recent years, there are still 34 million people living with HIV worldwide.
IRH provides technical assistance both in-country and internationally in social science research and project monitoring, learning, and evaluation.
Developing direct-to-consumer Approaches to Family Planning
Strengthening Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs for Very Young Adolescents (VYA)
Engaging faith-based organizations in family planning
Integration of Gender into Family Planning Programs
Social Network Analysis can be represented through social network maps like those below. In these maps, each node represents a single person while links between…
Providing women with accurate information about their fertility can serve as the critical link that helps them make timely, healthy choices about family planning.
Gender-based violence is recognized as a significant health and human rights issue that prevents women, families, and countries around the world from achieving their full potential.
Expanding Family Planning Access, Availability, and Awareness
Fertility Awareness for Community Transformation
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