STRENGTHENING PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES
Technical Assistance/Institution Building

Since the Council's founding in 1952, the number of requests for advice from developing country leaders has grown considerably. In response, Population Council staff members realized that training and institution building should be added to the organizational portfolio of activities as a mechanism for achieving its mission.

The Council provides technical assistance, offers workshops, and teaches courses for local institutions, donors, as well as governmental and nongovernmental agencies. Investments in training and strengthening capacity ensure that the Population Council can make a continuing contribution to reproductive health and family planning programs and policies.

Projects

• Bangladesh: Review of Selected Service Delivery Models to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Improve Neonatal and Child Health

• Iran: Civil Society Development in Iran

• Pakistan: Building Capacity and Supporting Evidence-based Programs and Policies in Population and Reproductive Health in Pakistan

• Pakistan: Small-scale Research Grants in Reproductive Health in Pakistan

• Pakistan: Support for Leadership and Capacity Building in Pakistan

• FRONTIERS projects

  • Asia: Capacity Building to Expand Access to Emergency Contraception in East Asian Countries
  • Interregional: Dissemination of Research on Female Genital Cutting
  • Latin America and the Caribbean: Training Latin American Ministry of Health Service Providers on Emergency Contraception
  • Bangladesh, India: Care and Support Services Provided to Rape Survivors at First Point of Contact in India and Bangladesh
  • Bangladesh: Developing Regional Capacity in Operations Research (OR) and Economic Evaluation in South Asia

  • Bolivia: Assessing the Impact of a Community-based Intervention on Service Utilization in Family Planning and Reproductive Health in Bolivia

  • Bolivia: Improving Financial Sustainability in Three Health Services Organizations

  • Bolivia: Technical Assistance to Pathfinder for Postabortion Care Operations Research

  • Bolivia: Technical Assistance and Training for Center for Research, Education, and Services Operations Research Program

  • Bolivia: Technical Assistance and Training for PROCOSI's Operations Research Program

  • Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico: Developing and Testing a Supervision Instrument of Postabortion Care (PAC) Services in Bolivia, Guatemala, and Mexico

  • Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru: Assessing the Need and Opportunities for Improved Linkages Between Conditional Cash Transfers and Reproductive Health Programs in the Latin America and Caribbean Region

  • Ecuador: Extending Operations Research to Social Marketing Programs

  • Ecuador: Impact of Varying Frequency and Magnitude of Price Increases for Clinical Reproductive Health Services

  • Egypt: Cairo Demographic Center Operations Research (OR) Course

  • Egypt: Validation of a Survey-based Approach for Predicting Willingness to Pay for Reproductive Health Services

  • Egypt, India: Technical Assistance for Implementing Best Practices in the Asia and Near East Region

  • El Salvador: Operations Research (OR) Training and Technical Assistance in El Salvador

  • Ghana: An Assessment of the Costs of Reproductive Health Services Offered at Four Faith-based Organizations

  • Ghana: Face-to-Face Complementary Selling of Health Products in Ghana

  • Ghana: Health Sector Reforms and Implications for Reproductive Health Priority Setting

  • Ghana, Kenya, Uganda: Financial Sustainability Initiative for Reproductive Health Organizations in Africa

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

  • Honduras: Coordination and Technical Assistance to the Reproductive Health Working Group (RHWG)
  • Honduras: Disseminating Information on the IUD in Rural Honduras

  • Honduras: Expansion of Postpartum/Postabortion Contraceptive Services in Honduras

  • Honduras: Expansion of the Role of Nurse Auxiliaries in the Provision of Family Planning Services

  • Honduras: Technical Assistance to Private-sector Agencies Working in Reproductive Health

  • India: Developing Operations Research (OR) Capacity in South Asia

  • Indonesia: Analysis of Conflicting Crisis-related Research Results

  • Kenya: Cost Analysis of Reproductive Health Services: The Case of a Maternity Ward and Maternal and Child Health/Family Planning Clinic

  • Kenya: Institutionalizing a Successful Adolescent Reproductive Health and HIV Intervention Program: Expanding the Kenya Adolescent Reproductive Health Program Experience in Kenya

  • Kenya: Technical Cooperation with the Ministry of Health (MOH)/German Agency for Technical Co-operation (GTZ) Anti-Female Genital Cutting (FGC) Project in Kenya

  • Peru: A Diagnostic Study Relevant to the Promotion of Youth’s Health Behaviors in Alternative Development Zones of Peru

  • Peru: Global Agenda: Provider and Client Impacts of an Intervention Designed to Improve the Provider–Client Interaction in Ministry of Health Clinics in Peru

  • Peru: Information, Education, and Communication Strategies Culturally Appropriate for Improving Adolescents’ Reproductive Health in the Inca Region of Peru (Cusco)

  • Peru: Monitoring Family Planning Providers’ Compliance with the Quality-of-Care Norms of Peru’s Ministry of Health

  • Peru: Sustainability of Postabortion Care

  • Peru: Year 2000: Monitoring Family Planning Providers’ Compliance with the Quality-of-Care Norms of Peru’s Ministry of Health

  • Philippines: Evaluation Study of a Maternal and Child Health/Family Planning Matching Grants Program in the Philippines

  • Philippines and Senegal: Documenting the Impact of Quality of Care on Women’s Reproductive Health in the Philippines and Senegal

  • South Africa: Feasibility and Cost-effectiveness of an Improved and Integrated Package of Routine Services for Antenatal Clients Attending Public Clinics in South Africa

  • South Africa: Strengthening the Capacity of the Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit to Provide Training in Operations Research and Data Utilization

  • Sub-Saharan Africa: Dissemination of Results on Postabortion Care (PAC) Initiative for Francophone Africa

  • Uganda: Building the Capacity of the Regional Center for Quality of Health Care, Makerere University, to Train Consumers of Operations Research

  • Uganda: Global Agenda: Improving the Quality of Family Planning Services in Uganda

  • Uganda: Improving Financial Sustainability: Break-even Analysis of The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) Training Centers

  • West Bank and Gaza: Creation of a Unified Management Information System for Three Nongovernmental Organizations in the West Bank and Gaza

  • West Bank and Gaza: Improving Postpartum Care Among Low-parity Mothers in Palestine

  • West Bank and Gaza: Post-test Survey for the West Bank/Gaza Pilot Health Project

  • West Bank and Gaza: Special Studies Program for the West Bank/Gaza

  • West Bank and Gaza: Technical Assistance to the West Bank/Gaza Pilot Health Project

  • West Bank and Gaza: Training Program for the West Bank/Gaza Pilot Health Project

Publications/Resources on this issue

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