With a strong foundation of government commitment and leadership, and guided by the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy II (MGDS II), Malawi stands ready to achieve its Vision 2020 for growth.
Project: Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC)
This convening held on May 7-8, 2025, brought together key stakeholders—including leaders from National Statistical Offices, donor organizations, partner organizations, and data user groups—to identify opportunities and priorities for collaboration to protect current data and preserve ongoing data collection activities.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Municipality-level estimates of adolescent fertility in Nepal allow decisionmakers to more strategically invest family planning resources to address high adolescent fertility.
2004) In September 2004, four devastating hurricanes and tropical storms killed more than 1,500 Haitians, destroyed roughly 90 percent of Grenada, and wreaked billions of dollars of damage on the southern United States.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Youth from over a dozen Kenyan counties are meeting with policymakers to share We Are Kenya’s Future: Young People and Our Nation’s Growth and to push for increased commitments to young people’s health.
PRB Board Chair Jennifer Madans remarks on the tenure of President and CEO Jeffrey Jordan as he approaches his retirement.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Featured indicators include the percentage of married women using modern and traditional family planning methods, unmet need for family planning, use of modern contraception by wealth group, and demand for family planning satisfied by modern methods.
(2020) The world is better equipped to fight a pandemic today than it was in 1918, when influenza swept the globe and infected up to one-third of the world’s population.1 While science and medical advances have given us new advantages in fighting disease, some demographic trends since 1918 may increase the risk for spreading contagions and our vulnerability to viruses.
