Region: Eastern Africa
Report. Fostering Economic Growth, Equity, and Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Family Planning
Meeting the Need, Fulfilling the Promise: Youth and Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives
This brief discusses the advantages and challenges of providing Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs) to youth, provides case studies from Ethiopia and Madagascar, and outlines actions for policymakers and donors to make youth access to LARCs a reality.
New Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Toolkit Launched
The Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health (PACE) project is pleased to launch a completely revised Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) toolkit.
Interventions to Address the Economic Causes and Consequences of HIV/AIDS
(2016) Evidence generated over the past 10 years from the PopPov Research Initiative and other findings from sub-Saharan Africa provide insights on the connections between HIV and household and national economics.
Webinar: Institutionalizing the Population-Health-Environment Approach for Sustainable Development in East Africa
(2016) Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) program implementers are increasingly considering how to best scale up their efforts.
Webinar: Why PHE? Linking Conservation and Reproductive Health in Tanzania
(2016) What are Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) programs and why should reproductive health and conservation organizations use a PHE approach?
Path to Prosperity: Empower, Educate, and Employ Youth to Realize the Demographic Dividend
Investments in young people are crucial to achieving a demographic dividend. The demographic dividend provides a framework for promoting investments in youth as fertility declines and population age structure changes.
The Demographic Dividend: An Opportunity for Ethiopia’s Transformation
A demographic dividend in Ethiopia would contribute to the long term economic and social development of the country.
Exploring Intimate Partner Violence and Family Planning
A new PRB research brief, Intimate Partner Violence and Unmet Need for Family Planning, presents the findings of a new analysis on the association between intimate partner violence (IPV) and unmet need among women of different ages using DHS data from six countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.