FRONTIERS PROJECT
Capacity Building to Expand Access to Emergency Contraception in East Asian Countries

FRONTIERS will conduct a workshop for program managers and researchers from five East Asian countries (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand) in collaboration with their ministries of health to build their capacity in planning and implementing strategies for introducing emergency contraception (EC) into their national reproductive health programs. To facilitate south–south learning and skills exchange, participants from Bangladesh, India, and Nepal will share their experiences with successfully introducing EC in their respective countries. The workshop will be conducted in Vietnam and hosted by the Population Council’s office in Hanoi, which will handle the logistics of organizing the workshop. This workshop will be viewed as a first step toward introducing EC in these East Asian countries; a follow-up survey two months after the workshop will identify subsequent initiatives. FRONTIERS will help participant countries develop national plans and leverage funding for incorporating EC into their national reproductive health policies.
 

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Location

Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

Duration

October 2007–March 2008

Population Council researchers

M.E. Khan, Sharif Hossain, Jane Hughes

Non-Council collaborators

Institute of Health Economics, Dhaka, Bangladesh

UK Department for International Development

Donor

US Agency for International Development

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See Also

• Population Council Asia

• Population Council Technical Assistance/Institution Building

• FRONTIERS Technical Assistance/Institution Building
• FRONTIERS Asia and the Near East
• FRONTIERS Emergency Contraception
• FRONTIERS Capacity Building

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