Over the past 15 years, researchers, advocates, and funders have successfully sparked significant interest in the potential acceleration in economic growth that can occur as population age structures mature, commonly referred to as the demographic dividend.
Racism-related stress may help explain why Black women in the United States are over 50% more likely to deliver a premature baby than white women.
Le Project PACE (Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health), financé par USAID et exécuté par PRB, a lancé en octobre 2020, en collaboration avec l’Unité de Coordination du Partenariat de Ouagadougou (UCPO), la première édition en français de son “Programme de renforcement en communication pour les politiques.
The PACE Project (Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health), funded by USAID and implemented by PRB, debuted its Policy Communication Fellows Program in French in October 2020, in collaboration with the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit (OPCU).
Among countries with a youthful population, a window of opportunity to achieve key development goals opens across four sectors―health, education, the economy, and governance―as fertility declines and the age structure of the population gets older.
Getting an accurate 2020 Census count is important because census numbers impact daily life in the United States in many ways.
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(2020) The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health has a mission to unlock philanthropy to transform health for kids and moms, in our community and around the world.
In Burkina Faso’s Sahel Region, girls are more likely to drop out of primary and lower secondary school than girls nationally.
Girls’ educational attainment affects the human capital of Burkina Faso’s future labor force, shaping their economic opportunities and their country’s economic growth.
The Breakthrough RESEARCH project has identified three important factors for improving women’s attendance at four or more antenatal visits during pregnancy (ANC4+) in three states in northwestern Nigeria: 1) knowledge of ANC’s benefits, 2) confidence in the ability to access care, and 3) knowledge of the need to attend four or more visits.