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A three-day workshop was developed and conducted in Cairo on best and promising practices in postpartum and postabortion care in the Arab region. Key participants at this workshop included representatives from reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) programs in selected Arab countries that have relatively high fertility levels, poor maternal health indicators, and fairly new RH/FP programs. The workshop enhanced the capacity of these RH/FP programs to introduce and scale up proven integrated family planning interventions through demonstration and expansion projects. In addition to presenting lessons learned and tools developed by FRONTIERS in the Arab region and elsewhere (for example, systematic screening), the workshop also included presentations on related best practices developed by other agencies in the region.