Jill Chanley
Senior Policy Advisor
The Family Planning Advocacy Resource Hub was created by Population Reference Bureau through the Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy project. Through the Resource Hub, PRB assists family planning advocacy partners in Africa and Asia in meeting their needs for tailored, effective communications products in a timely manner. Each of our products is customized for the user, the local advocacy initiative, and the targeted audiences.
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As advocacy organizations engage with a range of decisionmakers to achieve their family planning policy goals, they need diversified communication messages and tools grounded in local evidence to address their different audiences’ priorities.
Analysis and synthesis of data and research are at the core of PRB’s technical work on family planning and reproductive health issues. The Family Planning Advocacy Resource Hub products reflect our deep experience inspiring policymakers to strengthen their commitments to family planning and related issues.
Through the Family Planning Advocacy Resource Hub, we deliver evidence-based content in compelling formats that make data and information accessible to expert and generalist audiences alike. The Family Planning Advocacy Resource Hub was created under PRB’s Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy project.
PRB works together with family planning advocacy partners in Africa and Asia to create customized, impactful communications materials that propel their advocacy efforts. We customize materials based on partners’ advocacy needs, goals, and existing capacity for end results that help to achieve quick wins. To date, PRB has developed a number of innovative products, including videos, policy briefs, multimedia presentations, a comic book, pocket-sized infographics, and factsheets to support national and subnational advocacy.
Working with PRB has given us immense clarity on the three main points of developing an advocacy collateral—the audience, why, and how.
Dr. Sanchika Gupta, Former Program Officer, Jhpiego India
The materials created under the Advocacy Resource Hub have contributed to the use of evidence in family planning policies and decisionmaking in multiple partner countries.
Population Reference Bureau seeks two consultants, one Anglophone and one Francophone, to provide research and analysis assistance to upcoming editions of the Youth Family Planning Policy Scorecard (“Scorecard”). Reporting to Christine Power, policy advisor in the International Programs Department, the consultants will assist PRB in researching and interpreting laws and policy documents relating to youth family planning. The consultancy is expected to last from November-March 2021, with an opportunity to extend to November 2021 based on performance quality. The estimated average number of days per month is 5.
To apply to this consultancy, please submit your CV and a brief cover letter outlining your qualifications and interest via email to Christine Power by October 9, 2020. In the cover letter document, please address the following question, “What is the greatest policy challenge to youth family planning in your country?”
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Please also include your daily rate in your cover letter. Applications that do not include a daily rate will not be considered. If selected as a finalist, you will be contacted for an interview and may be asked to provide references.
Position Summary:
Responsible for collecting, analyzing, and writing about youth family planning policies and programs in 22 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
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September 17, 2020
Le Population Reference Bureau recherche deux consultants, un anglophone et un francophone, dont la mission consistera à apporter une assistance en matière de recherche et d’analyse pour la prochaine édition du Tableau de bord des politiques de planification familiale pour les jeunes (le « Tableau de bord »). Sous la responsabilité de Christine Power, conseillère politique au sein du Département des programmes internationaux, les consultants aideront le PRB à analyser et interpréter les lois et les documents de politique relatifs à la planification familiale pour les jeunes. La mission de consultant devrait durer de novembre 2020 à mars 2021, avec une possibilité de prolongation jusqu’en novembre 2021 en fonction de la qualité des résultats. Le nombre moyen de jours par mois est estimé à 5.
Pour postuler, veuillez adresser par courriel, au plus tard le 9 octobre 2020, votre CV et une lettre de couverture décrivant brièvement vos qualifications et vos motivations, à Christine Power. Dans la lettre, veuillez répondre à la question suivante : « Quel est le plus grand défi en matière de politique que doit relever la planification familiale pour les jeunes dans votre pays ? »
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Veuillez également indiquer dans la lettre votre taux journalier. Les candidatures qui ne mentionnent pas de taux journalier ne seront pas examinées. Si vous êtes sélectionné comme finaliste, vous serez contacté pour un entretien et il pourra vous être demandé de donner des références.
Résumé de la mission : responsable de la collecte, de l’analyse et de la rédaction sur les politiques et programmes de planification familiale pour les jeunes dans 22 pays d’Afrique, d’Asie et des Caraïbes.
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February 28, 2020
Explore and use materials produced under the Rapid Response Mechanism
The SAFE ENGAGE Project has established a Rapid Response mechanism to support advocates, experts, and decisionmakers in their efforts to advance evidence-based policy dialogue and expand access to safe abortion.
This mechanism is intended to fill gaps in applicants’ capacity to create effective communication materials, develop and conduct analyses of existing data, and generally build applicants’ policy communication capacity.
Rapid Response support operates on a six-month timeline and will respond to a specific advocacy objective to expand safe abortion access and reduce unsafe abortion. Advocacy partners based in countries outside of the United States and Europe with a successful track record of advocacy on safe abortion will be prioritized.
SAFE ENGAGE a mis en place un mécanisme de réponse rapide pour soutenir les défenseurs, les experts et les décideurs dans leurs efforts pour faire avancer le dialogue politique fondé sur des preuves et pour étendre l’accès à l’avortement sécurisé.
Ce mécanisme vise à combler les lacunes des candidats dans leur capacité à créer des supports de communication efficaces, à développer et à mener des analyses des données existantes, et de manière générale à renforcer leur capacité de communication par rapport aux politiques.
Le soutien fourni par la réponse rapide fonctionne sur une période de six mois et correspondra à un objectif de plaidoyer spécifique destiné à étendre l’accès à l’avortement sécurisé et faire reculer l’avortement non sécurisé. Les partenaires de plaidoyer basés dans des pays extérieurs aux États-Unis ou à l’Europe et ayant une expérience réussie de plaidoyer sur l’avortement sécurisé seront prioritaires.
March 21, 2019
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Family Planning, Maternal and Reproductive Health Gender Issues
Des femmes journalistes expérimentées de l’Afrique de l’Ouest sont invitées à participer à un atelier régional sur le rôle important des leaders religieux dans la promotion de la santé de la reproduction et du bien-être des femmes et des familles.
Le Population Reference Bureau (PRB) lance un appel à candidatures pour son programme de formation « Women’s Edition » en l’Afrique de l’Ouest. « Women’s Edition » réunit des femmes journalistes de haut niveau–rédacteurs en chef, chefs de desks, journalistes et productrices– pour des séminaires d’une semaine consacrés à des sujets liés à la santé de la reproduction et aux questions de population et de développement.
Le séminaire aura lieu à Dakar (Sénégal) en juin 2019 et portera sur l’engagement des chefs religieux de la région ouest africaine dans la promotion de la santé de la reproduction et du bien-être des femmes et des familles. L’atelier « Women’s Edition » offre une occasion unique de faire partie d’un réseau international de femmes journalistes expérimentées qui sont intéressées par la santé et le développement. Le PRB sélectionnera 12 femmes journalistes de toute l’Afrique de l’Ouest pour participer au séminaire de Dakar.
Pendant le séminaire les journalistes participeront à des sessions avec des experts de la santé et du développement ; elles participeront également à des réunions éditoriales pour développer des stratégies permettant de couvrir ces questions pour mieux contribuer au plaidoyer. Des visites de sites sont aussi au programme de cette rencontre régionale. Les participantes retenues à l’issue de ce premier atelier auront la possibilité d’être invitées, en 2020, à un deuxième séminaire sur un thème différent de la santé de la reproduction. Elles auront accès aux subventions pour un reportage approfondi sur la santé de la reproduction.
L’atelier « Women’s Edition » est financé par l’agence américaine pour le développement international (Agency for International Development -USAID). Il sera animé par des facilitateurs du PRB.
Après le séminaire, les participantes de « Women’s Edition » doivent produire des reportages approfondis, des séries d’articles et d’émissions ou des productions radiophoniques sur les thèmes de l’atelier. Les journalistes auteures des meilleures productions seront invitées à participer à des séminaires et à des voyages d’étude en 2020 afin d’approfondir leurs connaissances en matière de santé de la reproduction, de population et de développement.
Les femmes journalistes expérimentées qui :
Le PRB couvrira toutes les dépenses du séminaire, y compris les frais de voyage, d’hébergement et d’alimentation.
Les candidatures doivent être envoyées au PRB au plus tard vendredi 19 avril. Les candidates retenues en seront informées au plus tard vendredi 26 avril.
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CLOSED: The SAFE ENGAGE Project has established a Rapid Response mechanism to support advocates, experts, and decisionmakers in their efforts to advance evidence-based policy dialogue and expand access to safe abortion.
CLOSED: Request for applications from youth-led organizations with existing family planning advocacy efforts to partner with us on a short-term basis to create data-rich, visually compelling, and actionable communications materials.
COMING SOON: PRB and the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) accept application to the Policy Communication Fellows Program each spring. The program seeks to train the next generation of leaders shaping policy in their countries, learning local advocacy priorities and policy landscapes and how to tailor their research messages to relevant policy audiences.
COMING SOON: Women’s Edition brings together senior-level women editors, reporters, and producers from influential media organizations in developing countries to examine and report on pressing issues affecting women’s health and status. Up to 15 senior journalists from leading news media organizations around the developing world are competitively selected to participate in this activity.
CLOSED: The U.S. Policy Communication Training Program builds on PRB’s 40-year legacy of training researchers to bridge the gap between research findings and the policy development process.
CLOSED October 9, 2020: Population Reference Bureau seeks two consultants, one Anglophone and one Francophone, to provide research and analysis assistance to upcoming editions of the Youth Family Planning Policy Scorecard (“Scorecard”).
CLOSED October 2019: GOAL Malawi and PRB will host a workshop to introduce active young advocates to the topic of population, environment, and development (PED), and teach them about evidence-based policy communication.
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Working with local partners PRB builds champions, bridges sectors, and distills evidence to ensure that family planning, reproductive health, and population issues are recognized as key to sustainable and equitable economic growth and development.
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Access to voluntary family planning and maternal and reproductive health information and services enables people and their families to meet their needs while contributing to sustainable development.
PRB’s novel approaches to analyze and communicate population and maternal and reproductive health data propel decisionmakers to act. We communicate complex concepts such as the demographic dividend and the impact of malnutrition for mothers and infants in ways that are technically accurate yet easily understood by policymakers. We apply innovative analytical and visualization techniques to help identify barriers and gaps on important family planning and reproductive and maternal health priorities, such as contraceptive use patterns and adolescent fertility.
Through the MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator project, we use learning, monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management, and strategic communication systems, tools, and products to gather and disseminate information that supports improvements in maternal, newborn, and child health services; voluntary family planning; and reproductive health care.
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