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The manual is a tool aimed at helping organisations to monitor and evaluate sexual and reproductive health interventions, whether they be individual projects or part of larger programmes like the EC/UNFPA Initiative for Reproductive Health in Asia. The handbook acquaints the reader with concepts and terminology underlying the objectives of the RHI and ICPD/POA, the scope and focus of project monitoring and evaluation and their different functions, the use of a conceptual model for monitoring and evaluation and its relationship with the logical framework and the systems analysis framework. …
The study focuses on mother-teen relationships as they affect behaviour among teens who are not yet sexually active. The report looks at several questions such as: Do mothers know whether their teens have had sex?; Do mothers talk to their teens about sex and birth control?; Mothers talk, teen's perceptions: what matters?; What effect do closeness and connectedness have on teen sex?; What else about mothers make a difference for sexual initiation.
Safe motherhood
This advocacy booklet details UNFPA's work with global partners to respond to the reproductive health needs of refugees and internally displaced persons in crisis situations around the world: providing services to address complications of pregnancy and delivery, the transmission of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS, adolescent health, violence against women, and access to condoms and other contraceptives.
The report reflects some key lessons that the National Campaign has learned in the past five years of intense work on teen pregnancy prevention. It reviews the status of teen pregnancy in the U.S. The report then summarizes ten insights about the challenge of preventing teen pregnancy that the National Campaign gained from its intense interactions with teens and parents, researchers, programme leaders, policy-makers and the media. …
The report contains a result of a baseline situation analysis undertaken to assess the current status of Mongolia's reproductive health services. The issues under observations are: safe motherhood services, family planning services, RTIs/STDs, adolescent reproductive health services, postabortion care, infection prevention, laboratory services, and management of reproductive health services.
This is a national strategy which provides broad guidelines that should be used by all sectors of the Ministry of Health and other related ministries, in particular the Ministries of Women’s Affairs and Rural Development, International Organisations, bilateral agencies and NGOs. This is to ensure that Safe Motherhood does not become a vertical programme but that all its components are integrated into existing Maternal and Child Health/Birth Spacing (MCH/BS) and related programmes
The objectives of situation analysis were to: define current national plans related to Safe Motherhood and their actual levels of activity; identify existing guidelines for the definition and training of various types and levels of human resources; identify training and HRD activities, both current and planned; determine actual numbers and types of personnel available, assigned and active in Safe Motherhood; define the status of the physical infrastructure related to Safe Motherhood activities; identify existing protocols, guidelines, and standards for Safe Motherhood Activities; and determine …
The series of factsheets present the fact about osteoporosis or porous bone: its causes and risk factors, treatment and prevention.
The main objectives of the workshop was to develop strategies with youth participation of relevant specialists in the fields of human rights and medicine, to make all levels of society sensitive to the issues of reproductive health and human rights.
After describing the international consensus reached in Beijing about empowering women and ending gender inequality, and defining key human rights concepts, the report examines key issues related to reproductive health and rights that affect women throughout their lives. Topics covered include: Early life chances, The mutual relationship between reproductive health and education, Adolescence and the transition to adulthood, Marriage and the family, Labour force participation and employment, Reproductive health and violence and Issues affecting the health of older women
The report highlights the need to continue efforts to create broad-based support for reproductive health programs, improve coordination among stakeholders, strengthen NGOs so that they can effectively participate in the policy process, and enhance the financial sustainability of programs.
The sheet highlights the Women's Centre project in Jamaica. It focuses on prevent second adolescent pregnancies by supporting young mothers.
This article examines levels of adolescent childbearing, abortion and pregnancy in developed countries in the mid 1990s, as well as trends over recent decades.
This paper presents some new facts by examining the validity of nine beliefs about adolescent pregnancy: that nothing can reduce the rate of adolescent pregnancy; that pregnancy adolescents experience poor pregnancy outcomes; that adolescent mothers do not complete their high school education; that pregnant adolescents have large families; that adolescent mothers remain on welfare for long periods; that pregnancy in adolescence is a mistake and, given a chance to overcome the immediate problems associated with it, young mothers can go on to lead normal lives; that welfare causes adolescent pre …
