This app offered by the Ghana Health Service seeks to promote a healthy life for adolescents and to create awareness among the youth. Users can chat with a counsellor from their smartphone or tablet; learn about local events; locate adolescent and youth friendly facilities; and read FAQs about health topics.
Year: 2021
Source: Ghana Health Service
Experts in the family planning sector have developed a set of evidence-based practices—known as Family Planning High Impact Practices (HIPs)—that improve family planning and reproductive health program outcomes. HIPs can also be applied in development programs that integrate multiple sectors at the community level, including family planning. This policy brief explores the promising opportunity that exists to expand the use of HIPs within population, health, and environment (PHE) projects.
Year: 2019
Source: Population Reference Bureau
A research report by Population Reference Bureau (PRB), in collaboration with partners from the Tuungane Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) project, that analyzes data from Tuungane’s baseline survey of knowledge, attitudes, and practices among village residents regarding family planning (FP), conservation, and potential linkages.
Year: 2016
Source: Population Reference Bureau
In many developing countries, extreme weather events tied to climate change are increasingly threatening people’s property, livelihoods, and lives. Policymakers seek strategies to help people build resilience to these environmental shocks, which can exacerbate crises caused by poverty and poor health. This interactive infographic, shared via the web and social media, explains the concept of resilience in simple terms, highlighting the policy interventions that help families become more resilient to a crisis. Framing resilience as the integration of health and nutrition, education, and economic stability, the infographic outlines clear policy changes that decisionmakers across sectors can implement.
Year: 2015
Source: Population Reference Bureau
This policy brief explores the connections between women, their access to family planning, population, and resilience, and makes the case that investments that aim to improve women’s access to rights-based voluntary family planning are critical to building resilience. This brief aims to help health, climate change, and development practitioners who focus on resilience better understand and communicate these connections in order to embrace and promote family planning as a local, national, and global development priority.
Year: 2015
Source: Population Reference Bureau
A paper summarizing why removing barriers to family planning is critical for women’s and girls’ health and empowerment, and sustainable environmental conservation.
Year: 2019
Source: Margaret Pyke Trust | Population & Sustainability Network
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