Resource Type: Research paper or report
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Demand-Side Barriers to Girls’ Secondary Education in Madhya Pradesh, India
The final report, Demand-Side Barriers to Girls’ Secondary Education in Madhya Pradesh, India, examines the findings of FHI 360’s Madhya Pradesh Girls’ Secondary Education Study. The multi-district study, funded by the U.K.’s Department for International Development (DFID), assessed the demand- and supply-side factors that impede access to secondary education for socially disadvantaged girls in Madhya…
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Research and Recommendations on the Delivery of Injectable Contraceptive Services by Patent Medicine Vendors in Rural Nigeria
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Out of School Children: Data Challenges in Measuring Access to Education
June 2013 — Large-scale estimates of out of school children are often taken at face value, without sensitivity to the extent of missing and incomplete information for a large number of countries, which affects the precision of regional and global aggregates. In addition, grey areas surrounding the definitions of primary school, non-formal education, and the target…
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Opportunity to Learn: A High Impact Strategy for Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries
This publication examines time-loss factors as they relate to school management, time on task and achievement of new education goals set by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — particularly improved reading skills for 100 million children in primary grades by 2015. The study, which was conducted by the FHI 360 Educational Quality Improvement…
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Research Utilization: An Annotated Bibliography
2011 — This literature review includes journal articles, bulletins and reports published since 2000 that address various elements of research utilization. Topics include frameworks and models for research utilization, stakeholder engagement, theory and key concepts, champions, and barriers to research utilization.
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FHI 360 Pilot Project of Technical Support For Health System Strengthening Activities in Senegal: Evaluation Report (in English and French)
September 2011 — FHI 360 undertook a pilot project of technical support for the implementation of health system strengthening activities in Senegal as part of its health systems strengthening strategy.
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USAID Community Care Program Baseline Survey Report
January 2013 – Under the USAID Community Care Program (CCP), FHI 360 conducted a baseline assessment of communities and their interactions with health care services to assist CCP in further understanding the health services needed by the communities served.
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Integrated Behavioral Biological Surveillance 2009 (Laos)
2009 — This document presents survey result from a behavioral risk survey of HIV/sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among female sex workers in six “hot spot” provinces of Laos — areas with consistently higher HIV/STI prevalence.
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A Field Assessment of Adoption of Improved Cookstove Practices in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Focus on Structural Drivers
April 2012 — FHI 360 and Yayasan Dian Desa, an Indonesian organization, conducted a field assessment in two villages where improved cookstove technology had been introduced, but where adoption of the technology differed. The assessment identifies both the social drivers that facilitated adoption of improved cookstoves and factors that inhibited their use.
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Report of a Stakeholder Consultation: Expanding Contraceptive Choices in India