FRONTIERS
Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
on Technical Assistance/Institution Building

Regional

• Transferring Ghana’s System of Evidence-based Health Program Development: Program for an Initial Exchange with Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso (completed)
• Financial Sustainability Initiative for Reproductive Health Organizations in Africa (completed)
• Technical Assistance to CARE International for Testing Interventions to Eliminate Female Genital Cutting (FGC) (completed)
• Dissemination of Results on Postabortion Care (PAC) Initiative for Francophone Africa (completed)
• Technical Assistance to the Interagency Working Group Seeking to Reduce Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (completed)

Ethiopia

• Improving Reproductive Health and HIV Prevention Among Married Adolescents in Amhara, Ethiopia (ongoing)

Guinea

• Technical Assistance to Organizations Seeking to Reduce Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in Guinea (completed)

Ghana

• An Assessment of the Costs of Reproductive Health Services Offered at Four Faith-based Organizations (completed)
• Face-to-Face Complementary Selling of Health Products in Ghana (completed)
• Health Sector Reforms and Implications for Reproductive Health Priority Setting (completed)
• Assessment of the Functioning and Effectiveness of Community-based Distribution Programs (completed)

Kenya

• Technical Cooperation with the Ministry of Health (MOH)/German Agency for Technical Co-operation (GTZ) Anti-Female Genital Cutting (FGC) Project in Kenya (ongoing)
• Institutionalizing a Successful Adolescent Reproductive Health and HIV Intervention Program: Expanding the Kenya Adolescent Reproductive Health Program Experience in Kenya (completed)
• Cost Analysis of Reproductive Health Services: The Case of a Maternity Ward and Maternal and Child Health/Family Planning Clinic (completed)

Mozambique

• Technical Assistance for Service Delivery Programs, Optimal Birth Spacing in Mozambique (completed)

Senegal

• Enhancing Utilization of the Findings from the Youth Reproductive Health Project (completed)
• Promoting the Utilization of the 1998 Situation Analysis Study Findings in Senegal (completed)

South Africa

• Creating Conditions for Implementing a Province-wide Comprehensive, Evidence-based Antenatal and Postnatal Care Package in KwaZulu Natal (ongoing)
• Feasibility and Cost-Effectiveness of an Improved and Integrated Package of Routine Services for Antenatal Clients Attending Public Clinics in South Africa (completed)
• Strengthening the Capacity of the Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit to Provide Training in Operations Research and Data Utilization (completed)

Uganda

• Improving Financial Sustainability: Break-even Analysis of The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) Training Centers (completed)
• Building the Capacity of the Regional Center for Quality of Health Care, Makerere University to Train Consumers of Operations Research (completed)

Copies of conference reports, summaries, program briefs, and research updates are available free of charge. Contact frontiers@popcouncil.org. FRONTIERS publications are also available on the USAID/DEC Web site, www.dec.org. 

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See Also

• Population Council Strengthening Professional Resources
• FRONTIERS Strengthening Local Resources: Research Tools

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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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