From Research to Action: How Operations Research Is Improving Reproductive Health Services
Population Reference Bureau
Focus: Global
This summary provides policymakers, program managers, and donors with an overview of operations research and its recent contributions to improving the delivery of family planning and other reproductive health services.
Free to delegates, NGO participants, developing-country audiences and USAID cooperating agencies; $5 for all others. English, French, and Spanish; 1998.
Meeting Unmet Need: New Strategies, Population Reports
Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, Population Information Program
Focus: Developing countries
This issue of Population Reports examines the concept of unmet need, the reasons for it, the characteristics of women with unmet need, and the steps that programs can take to understand and address it better.
Free in any quantity to developing-country audiences; multiple copies are $2 each, and $35 for full set of reports ($40 with binder) for all others. English, French, and Spanish; September 1996; 36 pages. (Also addresses: Mobilizing Public and Private Resources; Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
Population Perils and the Churches' Response
World Council of Churches
Focus: Global
An introduction to population issues for member communions in the World Council of Churches. It describes and evaluates various conceptual, demographic, and ecological perils associated with global population growth and overconsumption. It highlights the response of the World Council of Churches to these issues in the past and identifies resources for response in the future.
Cost is $6.75. English; 1997; 56+ pages.
Private Sector's Role in Financing Reproductive Health (working title)
Population Action International
Focus: Global
Highlights the crucial role of private households in financing reproductive health services.
Cost is $9. English; 1999; number of pages to be determined.
Religious Consultation Report
Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics
Focus: Global
Newsletter focusing on population, ecology, reproductive health, and the empowerment of women.
Contact organization directly for subscription information. English; 12 pages.
Trust: A New Approach to Women's Empowerment
Pacific Institute for Women's Health
Focus: Brazil, India, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Philippines, turkey, Uganda
Highlights from an eight-country evaluation of the Global Fund for Women's impact on family planning and presents programmatic and policy recommendations that point to the role of women's NGOs in women's empowerment. Separate country reports available.
Free to developing-country audiences; $8.50 for all others. English; March 1997; 33 pages. (Also addresses: Mobilizing Public and Private Resources; Reproductive Rights/Human Rights)
Working with the News Media, Population Reports
Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs
Focus: Developing countries
This issue of Population Reports shows how to build a news media relations program, develop a strategy, present family planning issues in newsworthy ways, and develop materials and plan events that interest journalists.
Free in any quantity to developing-country audiences; multiple copies are $2 each, and $35 for full set of reports ($40 with binder) for all others. English, French, and Spanish; November 1995; 32 pages. (Also addresses: Mobilizing Public and Private Resources)
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