Region: Global
ENGAGE Snapshot: Family Planning Leads to Poverty Reduction
Family planning can lead to economic growth both at the family level and at the national level, making it critical component of strategies to reduce poverty.
Distilled Demographics: Where Do Population Data Come From?
“Distilled Demographics,” PRB’s video series, highlights key demographic concepts such as fertility, mortality, and migration. Through these short videos, you can learn demography’s real-world application and impact.
ENGAGE Snapshot: Addressing the Risk and Protective Factors in Young People’s Lives
Young people bear significant burdens of poor sexual and reproductive health outcomes, including early marriage and childbearing, unmet need for family planning, maternal disability and death, and higher HIV prevalence.
Women More Vulnerable Than Men to Climate Change
The glaciers that used to provide generous amounts of clean water to Bolivian mountain communities have shrunk dramatically over the past 20 years, and Leucadia now must collect water farther away, reports the United Nations Population Fund in a publication that tells her story.
Kenya’s Key: Investing in Young People
“Kenya’s Key: Investing in Young People” is an ENGAGE multimedia presentation that portrays how reproductive health for young people lays the groundwork to improve health and well-being, manage rapid population growth, and achieve Kenya’s development goals.
Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 27: The Interaction of Genes, Behavior, and Social Environment
(2012) For most people, the probability of having a physical or mental disability increases with age, as does the number of ailments they might have at any time—particularly after age 70.
Rapport : Le défi d’atteindre–le dividende démographique
(2012) Les décideurs, les chercheurs et les autres intervenants discutent avec optimisme du dividende démographique.
ENGAGE Snapshot: Early Marriage Has Consequences for Development
Fifty-eight million girls in developing countries were child brides in the last decade. This PRB ENGAGE Snapshot highlights the consequences that early marriage can have for girls, such as poor health outcomes and lost opportunities for education and empowerment.
Breaking the Cycle: Understanding the Intersections of Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children
(2012) To commemorate 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, PAHO, USAID, George Washington University’s Global Women’s Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and the Gender-Based Violence Task Force of the Interagency Gender Working Group, hosted an event focused on the critical examination of the intersections between violence against women and violence against children entitled “Breaking the Cycle: Understanding the Intersections of Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children.