Research

Since 1995, Family Health International (FHI) has provided technical assistance in monitoring and evaluation to the Consortium of Reproductive Health Associations (CORHA), a private sector family planning project supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Working with Pathfinder International, FHI supports the consortium's efforts to build a comprehensive and standardized system for evaluating projects to increase access to and improve the quality of family planning, STI, and other reproductive health services. We also work to increase the capacity of Ethiopian non-governmental organizations to implement HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and support interventions among targeted groups.

Since 2001, FHI has expanded its work in operations and programmatic research based on issues of the highest programmatic relevance to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health and USAID/Ethiopia.  FHI is advancing this objective by supporting the design and implementation of programmatic research that enables partners to refine and improve reproductive health programs at the national level.

More Research Highlights

• Through its YouthNet project, FHI and the Ethiopian Ministry of Youth, Sports, and Culture used a youth-based participatory process to develop an HIV/AIDS and sexual health component in the Ministry's new program, resulting in a mobilized coalition of young people committed to the health and future of their country. YouthLens No. 6 (PDF, 63 KB) documents this participatory process.

• FHI is working with the Ministry of Health to conduct a national evaluation of the quality, impact, and effectiveness of the country's community-based reproductive health system. Such information is vital for program planning. The Ministry of Health plans to address unmet need and expand coverage of services to the country's rural population via its community-based system.