• $500,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 3 years)

  Population & Reproductive Health

  CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA — The purpose of the proposed grant is to demonstrate ways to build the knowledge and skills of medical interns at three teaching hospitals to provide reproductive and maternal health care. The pilot in three universities will be coordinated with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria that serves as the accreditation body for institutions that train medical interns, and a training guide for use in the country will be one product of the work. A portion of the grant will be used to partner with other organizations to support two separate reproductive and maternal health conferences.

• $250,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 3 years)

  Population & Reproductive Health

  CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA — Ipas will demonstrate a scalable model of comprehensive safe abortion care for serving the urban slums in a pilot project in the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. Extending availability of safe abortion services to young women in the age group of 15 to 24 years, and advocating for the scaling up of the model across the two states, will be priorities. Ipas will also advocate with the state governments for increasing resources for comprehensive safe abortion care in their annual health plans.

• $300,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 3 years)

  Population & Reproductive Health

  CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA — In support of advancing access to safe legal abortion in three Mexican states (over three years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Ipas $1,050,000 between 2010 and 2013.