Case Studies of Faith-Based Organizations and Family Planning and Reproductive Health Print

 

  • Multi-faith cooperation for family planning and health services. 2010. CCIH. Hope Clinic Lukuli is about 5 kilometers outside Kampala, Uganda. The clinic is overseen and staffed by a multi-faith group who combine their Muslim, Church of Uganda (Anglican) and Catholic concepts of service and care for neighbours. Family planning services aim to help households grow at the rate they can afford, and a range of family planning methods is available.  All are discussed and chosen by individuals, according to their own faith and needs.
 
  • The Right Messages - to the Right People - at the Right Time. 2009. World Vision, India. A World Vision child survival project called Pragati in three Uttar Pradesh districts strove to improve health outcomes and change behaviors related to women’s and children’s health, and to ensure that pregnant women and new mothers had ready access to information about and methods of birth spacing and family planning.
 
  • Global Health Center Case Study. Birth Spacing: Focus on family planning. Location - Haiti, Senegal & India. World Vision. Page 3-4. World Vision US introduced ‘Family Planning for the Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies’, popularly known as Birth Spacing, in May 2007. This two-year project is being implemented in three countries in the second year: India, Haiti and Senegal. World Vision is closely monitoring implementation in order to incorporate the best practices and most effective strategies into a second phase that will broaden and deepen family planning services throughout its global programming. The program focuses on helping women and couples plan, space and limit pregnancies. It is centered around recent studies that find that infant and child mortality rates can be lowered by more than half if children are born at least three years (but less than five) years apart. Birth spacing has also proved to be an effective strategy for reducing maternal mortality. 
 
  • Working from Within: Culturally Sensitive Approaches in UNFPA Programming. 2004. UNFPA. Also under “Working with Faith-Based Organizations in FP/RH”.  The nine case studies presented in this brochure are drawn from a longer UNFPA report entitled, "Culture Matters: Working with Communities and Faith-based Organizations". It highlights the necessity of mainstreaming cultural analysis and sensitivity in development efforts addressing issues such as gender equality and equity, HIV/AIDS, female genital cutting, gender-based violence and reproductive health.
 
  • Be Fruitful: Bible Studies on Family Planning. Judith & Richard Brown. The Bible study process covered several months. The authors first considered each passage in their team's weekly Bible study. Subsequently, the authors asked a number of pastors and theologians to comment on the passages. The authors then submitted the Bible passages to public discussion, both in churches and in health centers. 

 

 
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