FRONTIERS PROJECT
Production of an Emergency Contraception Guidance Tool and Summary Article

While emergency contraception (EC) is relatively little known, governments in a number of countries have incorporated it, or expressed interest in incorporating it, as part of their family planning programs. Operations research has played a vital role in increasing knowledge and use of EC: Research by the Population Council and ECafrique (the African Consortium for Emergency Contraception), has led to the inclusion of EC in national family planning and post-rape strategies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

This project will synthesize and disseminate the experience of programs around the world that have successfully introduced EC into their method mix. Researchers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America will collect materials and toolkits on EC and will prepare a background paper for each region on introducing, providing, and scaling up EC services. These papers and materials will form the basis of a global implementation guidance tool intended for program managers and service providers. The guidelines will be presented at a meeting in Washington, DC.
 

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Location

Global

Duration

July 2007–May 2008

Population Council researcher

Ricardo Vernon

(For more information about this study, please contact frontiers@popcouncil.org.)

Non-Council collaborator

ECafrique

Donors

US Agency for International Development

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

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See Also

• Contraception
• Emergency Contraception
• Operations Research

• FRONTIERS Interregional

• FRONTIERS Emergency Contraception

• FRONTIERS Research Tools

• FRONTIERS Utilization of Research Findings

• FRONTIERS Contraception

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