MIDDLE EAST
Egypt

Completed Projects

• Findings from a National Adolescent Survey

• The Social Context of Youth Employment: A Qualitative Study of Workforce Entry and Exit (completed 3/07)

• Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Egypt: Women’s Empowerment and Investment in Children (completed 2/07)
• Promoting and Protecting the Interests of Children Who Work: An Exploratory Study on Gender-specific Hazards of Work (completed 1/07)
• Follow-up Study on Key Life Transitions of Ishraq Graduates (completed 12/06)
• Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2006 (completed 11/06)
• The Poverty-targeting Toolkit (completed 9/06)

• Stalled Fertility Transition in Egypt: Reaching Policymakers and Program Managers with the Findings (completed 8/05)

• Improving Delivery and Postpartum Practices for Normal Labor in Cairo, Egypt: An Intervention Study (completed 12/04)

• An Observational Study of Facility Practices for Normal Labor: The Relationship of Observed Practices to Evidence-Based Medicine (completed 7/02)

• FRONTIERS projects

  • Dissemination of Research on FGM/C (completed 12/06)

  • Linking Family Planning with Postabortion Services in Egypt: Testing Feasibility, Acceptability, and Effectiveness of Two Models of Integration (completed 8/06)

  • Validation of a Survey-based Approach for Predicting Willingness to Pay for Reproductive Health Services (completed 12/04)
  • Impact of Improved Client–Provider Interaction on Women’s Achievement of Fertility Goals (completed 5/03)

  • An Assessment of the Egyptian Norplant® Program (completed 6/01)

  • Cairo Demographic Center Operations Research (OR) Course (completed 1/01)

  • Increasing the Coverage of Reproductive Health Issues in the Egyptian Press (completed 6/00)

  • Counseling Family Planning Clients About Sexuality and the Use of Barrier Methods: An Exploratory Intervention Study in Egypt (completed 3/00)

  • Critical Analysis of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) Case Studies in Egypt (completed 2/00)

• MEAwards

  • MEAwards: Arab Families Working Group

  • MEAwards: Study Group on Social Sciences in the Arab World, Turkey, and Iran

  • MEAwards: Study Group on Youth, Education, and Citizenship: What Do Education Curriculums Say?

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