FRONTIERS
Utilization of Research Findings

A major goal of the FRONTIERS program is the utilization of research findings: ensuring that evidence-proven practices are used to benefit programs and clients. To that end, FRONTIERS employs several strategies:

• Developing guidelines and tools. FRONTIERS is developing standardized tools, manuals, guidelines, and checklists based on evidence from studies in various settings. These products are designed to guide policymakers, program managers, or service providers in a range of activities—for example, integrating new services into established programs, or assessing clients’ needs for a variety of clinical services.
• Securing local capacity to provide, finance, or institutionalize a proven service innovation or program practice—through workshops to establish core groups of local trainers, meetings and presentations, and dissemination to local, regional, and international leaders and experts.
• South-to-south technical assistance to help governments and policymakers develop strategies for improving their reproductive health policies or implementing proven interventions in their own countries.
• Creating conditions to expand successful interventions (see FRONTIERS research projects on scaling up).

Projects

• Sharing Experiences with Comprehensive Responses to Adolescent Reproductive Health Needs in Africa (ongoing)
• Production of an Emergency Contraception Guidance Tool and Summary Article (ongoing)
• Scaling Up Emergency Contraceptive Pills to the National Level in Bangladesh (ongoing)
• Scaling Up Utilization of the Quality Assurance (QA) Checklist in India (completed)
• Global Agenda: Improving the Reproductive Health of Youth in Kenya (completed)
• Getting Research into Policy and Practice (completed)
• Dissemination of Research on Female Genital Cutting (completed)

Additional Information

• Senegal: Launch of the National Strategy on Adolescents and Young People’s Health
• Senegal: Community Health Workers
• Turning Research into Practice: Suggested Actions from Case-studies of Sexual and Reproductive Health

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Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type. 

2008
Khan, M.E., Anurag Mishra, Vivek Sharma, and Leila Caleb Varkey. "Development of a quality assurance procedure for reproductive health services for district public health systems: Implementation and scale-up in the state of Gujarat," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 560 KB)

2007
Brambila, Carlos, Emma Ottolenghi, Celeste Marin, and Jane T. Bertrand. "Getting results used: Evidence from reproductive health programmatic research in Guatemala," Health Policy and Planning 22(4): 234–245. (abstract)

Nath, Shampa. "Getting research into policy and practice (GRIPP)," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 970 KB) (supplementary report, 1.12 MB)

2006
UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction. Turning Research into Practice: Suggested Actions from Case-studies of Sexual and Reproductive Health. Geneva: World Health Organization, Department of Reproductive Health and Research. (PDF) (more)

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See Also

• FRONTIERS Scaling Up

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For more information contact:
Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS)
Population Council
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 280
Washington, DC 20008 USA
Telephone: +1 202 237 9400
Facsimile: +1 202 237 8410
E-mail: frontiers@popcouncil.org

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This page updated 5 May 2008

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