Population and Reproductive Health

Recent Grants

India
Mexico
Nigeria
International

India

Number of Grants: 26

Action Research and Training for Health (Udaipur, India)
$230,000 in support of a project to enhance the skills of nurse-midwives to provide a continuum of maternal-newborn health services in a primary care setting in southern Rajasthan (over three years). (2006)

Anusandhan Trust, Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights (Mumbai, India)
$350,000 to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation capacity of non-governmental organizations working in the fields of maternal mortality and morbidity and young people's sexual and reproductive health in India (over three years). (2008)

BBC World Service Trust (London, United Kingdom)
$125,000 to produce a radio drama serial promoting young people's sexual and reproductive health in India (over 18 months). (2008)

Centre for Development and Population Activities (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 to support an alliance for advocacy to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in the Foundation's priority states of Rajasthan and Maharashtra (over two years). (2007)

Creating Resources for Empowerment and Action (New York, New York)
$25,000 in support of the translation and publication of two editions of the journal Reproductive Health Matters in Hindi (over two years). (2007)

Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India (Mahapalika Marg, India)
$185,000 in support of a project to prepare general practitioners to provide quality emergency obstetric care in rural areas of India (over two years). (2007)

Foundation for Education and Development (Jaipur, India)
$50,000 in support of a young people's reproductive health and sexual health program in rural Rajasthan. (2007)

Institute of Health Management (Maharashtra, India)
$430,000 in support of a program to increase access to maternal and reproductive health information and services among married adolescents in Maharashtra (over three years). (2006)

International Center for Research on Women (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to implement, evaluate and disseminate results from pilot tests in India on a youth sexual and reproductive health initiative (over three years). (2008)

International Institute for Population Sciences (Mumbai, India)
$185,000 to support a research program on young people's sexual and reproductive health in six states in India. (2008)

Ipas (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
$400,000 to support scaling up of Comprehensive Abortion Care services in the public sector in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan (over three years). (2008)

JHPIEGO (Baltimore, Maryland)
$185,000 in support of a project to develop the training capacity of Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecological Societies of India to prepare general practitioners to provide quality emergency obstetric care in rural areas of India (over two years). (2007)

Mahila SEWA Trust (Ahmedabad, India)
$200,000 to scale up health insurance to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in Gujarat and nationally (over three years). (2007)

Mamta-Health Institute for Mother and Child (New Delhi, India)
$330,000 to support a project on young people's reproductive and sexual health and rights with special focus on early marriage and early pregnancy in the state of Rajasthan and nationally (over three years). (2008)

Population Council (New York, New York)
$100,000 in support of a program to develop leadership skills of individuals working in reproductive and sexual health, especially in areas of young people and maternal mortality and morbidity in India. (2007)

Population Foundation of India (New Delhi, India)
$330,000 to scale up successful model interventions on reducing maternal mortality and morbidity and advancing young people's sexual and reproductive health (over two years). (2008)

Population Foundation of India (New Delhi, India)
$250,000 in support of the scaling up of successful model interventions on reducing maternal mortality and morbidity and advancing young people's sexual and reproductive health (over two years). (2006)

Public Health Foundation of India (New Delhi, India)
$50,000 to support production and dissemination costs of a special series in The Lancet on Health for All in India and an expert consultation on youth health programs in India. (2007)

Ritinjali (New Delhi, India)
$25,000 to assess and scale up a sexuality education program in public schools in two districts of Rajasthan. (2008)

Sangath (Alto Porvorim, India)
$500,000 in support of an intervention, training and research program addressing reproductive and sexual health of young people in India (over four years). (2008)

Society for Education Welfare and Action-Rural (Bharuch, India)
$200,000 to test model interventions to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in the state of Gujarat (over three years). (2007)

Society for Education, Action & Research in Community Health (Maharashtra, India)
$350,000 to strengthen public sector delivery of reproductive health services, with a focus on reducing maternal mortality and morbidity in Rajasthan (over two years). (2008)

Society for Education, Action & Research in Community Health (Gadchiroli, India)
$390,000 in support of a program to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in Maharashtra (over three years). (2006)

Socio Legal Information Centre (New Delhi, India)
$220,000 in support of a legal advocacy program on young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights with a focus on delaying the age of marriage in India (over three years). (2006)

Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues (New Delhi, India)
$65,000 in support of publication and dissemination of two books to advance young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights in India (over two years). (2007)

University of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (London, United Kingdom)
$50,000 in support of the production and dissemination of a special series in "The Lancet" on global mental health. (2006)

Mexico

Number of Grants: 35

Afluentes (Mexico City, Mexico)
$235,000 to develop teacher training programs for sexuality education (over three years). (2007)

Asesoria, Capacitacion y Asistencia en Salud (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)
$180,000 to design, pilot and implement a community-based intervention for improving reproductive and sexual health among indigenous adolescents in Los Altos, Chiapas (over 37 months). (2008)

Catolicas por el Derecho de Decidir (Mexico City, Mexico)
$270,000 to improve the implementation at the state level of federal policy that promotes young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights in Mexico (over three years). (2006)

Centro de Investigaciones en Salud de Comitan (Comitan, Mexico)
$235,000 to develop educational tools for the prevention of maternal mortality in Chiapas and municipal outreach activities (over three years) (2007)

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (Mexico City, Mexico)
$75,000 to monitor government programs to improve transparency and accountability in Mexico, with a focus on human rights and reproductive health. (2008)

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (Mexico City, Mexico)
$35,000 in support of a high-level summit on maternal mortality for Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca and follow up activities for Oaxaca. (2006)

Chiltak (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)
$150,000 to improve youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in the state of Chiapas (over three years). (2007)

Comite Promotor Por Una Maternidad Sin Riesgos En Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
$180,000 in support of efforts to decrease maternal mortality in Mexico (over three years). (2006)

Comunicacion e Informacion de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$180,000 in support of using new Internet-based technologies to increase the quantity and improve the quality of media coverage on maternal mortality and morbidity in Mexico (over three years). (2008)

Consorcio para el Dialogo Parlamentario y la Equidad, Asociacion Civil (Mexico City, Mexico)
$190,000 to strengthen public policy on maternal mortality and young people's reproductive and sexual rights in Mexico (over three years). (2008)

Democracia y Sexualidad (Mexico City, Mexico)
$240,000 to increase access to comprehensive sexuality education among adolescents in Mexico (over three years). (2009)

ELIGE, Red de Jovenes por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (Mexico City, Mexico)
$150,000 to improve youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in Mexico (over three years). (2007)

Equidad de Genero Ciudadania, Trabajo y Familia (Mexico City, Mexico)
$190,000 in support to monitor and disseminate information about Mexico's fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goal to decrease maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015 at the federal level and in three states (over three years). (2006)

Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Mexico City, Mexico)
$30,000 in support of the design of a national survey on sexuality education. (2006)

Family Care International (New York, New York)
$30,000 to translate recently published articles on maternal mortality into Spanish and disseminate them in Mexico and Latin America. (2007)

Fundacion Mexicana Para la Planeacion Familiar (Mexico City, Mexico)
$250,000 in support for the consolidation of a model to promote the sexual and reproductive health of rural and indigenous young people in Oaxaca and Guerrero (over three years). (2006)

FUNDAR, Centro de Analisis e Investigacion (Mexico City, Mexico)
$270,000 to monitor and report on the operations and budgets of principal maternal health programs (over three years). (2008)

Grupo de Informacion en Reproduccion Elegida (Mexico City, Mexico)
$270,000 in support of the defense and promotion of reproductive rights in Mexico through recording, documenting and litigating reproductive rights violations and training government, non-governmental organizations and members of the local community (over three years). (2006)

Investigacion en Salud y Demografia (Mexico City, Mexico)
$265,000 in support of preparing a model for improving the quality of public reproductive and sexual health services for youth and adolescents in Mexico and strengthening NGO skills in monitoring and evaluation (over three years). (2008)

Ipas (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
$300,000 in support of increasing the availability and improving the quality of legal abortion services (over three years). (2007)

Letra S, Sida, Cultura y Vida Cotidiana (Mexico City, Mexico)
$250,000 in support of media dissemination of youth reproductive and sexual health in Mexico (over three years). (2007)

Marie Stopes Mexico (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)
$150,000 to improve youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in the state of Chiapas (over three years). (2007)

Mexico National Safe Motherhood Committee Comite Promotor Por Una Maternidad Sin Riesgos En Mexico (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)
$350,000 to support efforts to decrease maternal mortality in Mexico (over three years). (2009)

Nueve Lunas (Oaxaca, Mexico)
$100,000 in support of improving skilled attendance at birth in rural indigenous areas of Oaxaca and generating support for midwifery training systems (over two years). (2008)

Observatorio Ciudadano de Politicas de Ninez, Adolescencia y Familias (Mexico City, Mexico)
$50,000 in support of the development of an internet-based networking system for young leaders involved in IMSS Oportunidades' rural adolescent program. (2006)

OneWorld UK (London, United Kingdom)
$45,000 in support of a feasibility and planning project to adapt the Nigerian sexuality education program, Learning about Living, to Mexico. (2008)

Red Ciudadana Feminista de Mexico: Region Centro (Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico)
$80,000 to contribute to improving access to legal abortion services in central Mexico (over two years). (2007)

Rosario Castellanos - Grupo de Estudios Sobre la Mujer (Oaxaca, Mexico)
$210,000 in support of outreach and local policy work for improving reproductive and sexual health among indigenous adolescents in selected municipalities of Oaxaca (over 37 months). (2008)

Salud Integral para la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$230,000 to increase young people's access to reproductive and sexual health services in Mexico City (over three years). (2008)

Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$150,000 to support grassroots projects to prevent maternal mortality and improve young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights in Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca. (2008)

Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$25,000 in support of the 7th International Conference on HIV/AIDS. (2007)

Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$470,000 in support of a program to strengthen the leadership capacity of indigenous women to decrease maternal mortality and improve the population's reproductive health (over three years). (2006)

Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$250,000 in support of local organizations' initiatives for improving youth reproductive and sexual health or decreasing maternal mortality (over thirty four months). (2006)

Thais, Consultoria en Desarrollo Social (Mexico City, Mexico)
$25,000 in support of systematization of the IMSS Oportunidades model for youth and sexual and reproductive health and rights. (2006)

Thais, Consultoria en Desarrollo Social (Mexico City, Mexico)
$225,000 in support of scaling up and refining a youth outreach model for rural adolescents, linked to IMSS Oportunidades (over three years). (2006)

Nigeria

Number of Grants: 30

Action Health, Incorporated (Yaba, Nigeria)
$430,000 in support of Family Life HIV/AIDS Education and pre-service training of teachers in Nigeria (over three years). (2007)

Action Health, Incorporated (Yaba, Nigeria)
$576,000 in support of the evaluation of the implementation of a sexuality education curriculum in public schools in Lagos State, Nigeria (over three years). (2006)

Actionaid International Foundation Nigeria (Abuja, Nigeria)
$250,000 in support of activities towards promoting citizens participation in HIV/AIDS response and maternal mortality mitigation efforts through budget monitoring and advocacy (over two years). (2008)

BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights (Lagos, Nigeria)
$400,000 to promote the reproductive health and rights of women whose lives are governed by Sharia'h Law (over three years). (2007)

Bayero University, Kano (Kano, Nigeria)
$65,000 in support of institutional strengthening of Minjibir General Hospital. (2007)

Calabar International Institute for Research, Information and Documentation (Calabar, Nigeria)
$100,000 to improve and update the quality and content of the Conscientizing Male Adolescents program (over two years). (2008)

Campaign Against Unwanted Pregnancy (Ikeja, Nigeria)
$300,000 in support of media education, research, and strengthening medical school curricula and teaching related to reproductive health and maternal mortality (over three years). (2006)

Center for Communication and Reproductive Health Services (Bida, Nigeria)
$300,000 in support of implementation of the Niger State Sexuality Education/Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education (over three years). (2006)

Centre for Development and Population Activities (Washington, D.C.)
$150,000 to promote best practices in maternal mortality reduction in Nigeria. (2008)

Centre for Development and Population Activities (Washington, D.C.)
$400,000 in support of education and training on maternal mortality reduction (over three years). (2007)

Civil Resource Development and Documentation Centre (Enugu, Nigeria)
$200,000 in support of activities toward improving maternal health and reproductive rights of women and young people in Nigeria through the legal system (over three years). (2006)

Community Health and Research Initiative (Kano, Nigeria)
$175,000 to work with 10 local governments and the Kano state government to reposition the commitment to address maternal mortality and morbidity through improved budgetary allocation and service delivery (over thirty two months). (2008)

Community Life Project (Apapa, Nigeria)
$150,000 to increase access to comprehensive reproductive and sexual health for out-of-school youth in Lagos State, Nigeria (over two years). (2007)

Federal Ministry of Health (Abuja, Nigeria)
$500,000 in support of promoting the use of magnesium sulfate (over two years). (2008)

Girls' Power Initiative (Calabar, Nigeria)
$300,000 in support of activities towards scaling up the implementation of the national sexuality education curriculum in Cross River State, Nigeria (over three years). (2007)

Global Health and Awareness Research Foundation (Enugu, Nigeria)
$150,000 in support of implementation of Family Life and HIV/AIDs Education in Enugu State (over two years). (2007)

Ipas (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
$400,000 in support of increasing access to post-abortion care services in Nigeria (over three years). (2006)

Legal Research and Resource Development Centre (Yaba, Nigeria)
$200,000 in support of consolidating and scaling up activities to integrate reproductive health and rights into legal education in Nigeria (over three years). (2006)

Management Strategies for Africa (Ilford, United Kingdom)
$300,000 in support of improving the policy environment for the implementation of reproductive health programs in Nigeria (over two years). (2007)

Management Strategies for Africa (Ilford, United Kingdom)
$83,000 to increase awareness and provide research and data analysis for policy formulation and implementation in Nigeria. (2007)

National Commission on Colleges of Education (Abuja, Nigeria)
$250,000 to train pre-service teachers in colleges of education (over three years). (2009)

National Commission on Colleges of Education (Abuja, Nigeria)
$50,000 in support of implementation of the Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education curriculum. (2007)

OneWorld UK (London, United Kingdom)
$525,000 in support of the Learning About Living project in Nigeria (over three years). (2009)

OneWorld UK (London, United Kingdom)
$300,000 in support of developing and implementing computer and mobile phone based sexuality education for Nigerian adolescents (over two years). (2007)

Pathfinder International (Watertown, Massachusetts)
$100,000 in support of institutional strengthening of facilities promoting safe motherhood. (2007)

Pathfinder International (Watertown, Massachusetts)
$400,000 in renewed support of an initiative to improve maternal health in Nigeria (over three years). (2006)

Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria (Benin, Nigeria)
$250,000 in support of reducing maternal mortality (over three years). (2007)

Women's Aid Collective (Enugu, Nigeria)
$200,000 in support of consolidating and scaling up activities to integrate reproductive health and rights into legal education in Nigeria (over three years). (2006)

Women's Health and Action Research Centre (Benin City, Nigeria)
$250,000 in support of research to improve policies and programs for promoting maternal health in six states of Nigeria (over three years). (2009)

Youth, Adolescent, Reflection & Action Center (Jos, Nigeria)
$275,000 in support of Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education in Plateau State (over three years). (2007)

International

Number of Grants: 46

AIDS Foundation of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 to disseminate research findings on housing and health among chronically ill homeless populations. (2007)

Americans for UNFPA (New York, New York)
$50,000 in support of a website aimed at building an online community that supports improving global reproductive health. (2007)

Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco, California)
$325,000 to research and disseminate findings on the AntiShock Garment (over two years). (2008)

Boston Women's Health Book Collective (Boston, Massachusetts)
$315,000 to build capacity of women's groups in ten countries to translate and adapt women's health resources, and to improve online access to materials in multiple languages (over three years). (2008)

Brown University, Population Studies and Training Center (Providence, Rhode Island)
$250,000 in support of research on the potential economic benefits of reductions in fertility (over three years). (2007)

Catholics For Choice (Washington, D.C.)
$175,000 in support of general operations. (2009)

Center for Health and Gender Equity (Takoma Park, Maryland)
$300,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2007)

Center for Reproductive Rights (New York, New York)
$600,000 in support of the International Legal Program (over three years). (2007)

Center for Reproductive Rights (New York, New York)
$50,000 in support of development of the Arabic version of the Center's website (over 18 months). (2006)

Columbia University Earth Institute (New York, New York)
$350,000 to support a pilot project to address postpartum hemorrhage at the community level in the Bonsaaso, Ghana Millennium Village (over 27 months). (2008)

Council on Foreign Relations (New York, New York)
$90,000 in support of an international symposium on repositioning maternal health as a crucial global health and foreign policy concern. (2007)

Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevolkerung (Hannover, Germany)
$90,000 in support of preparation and dissemination of a Guide to European Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS and Population Assistance for use by non-governmental organizations in accessing funding from European national governments and the European Commission. (2006)

East-West Center (Honolulu, Hawai'i)
$380,000 in support of two workshops and follow up activities to advance research on the demographic dividend by generating a new set of research results and contributing to the creation of a new generation of developing country scholars with relevant knowledge (over three years). (2006)

EngenderHealth (New York, New York)
$310,000 to support the use of magnesium sulfate for the treatment of eclampsia, via the development of an e-learning module. (2008)

EngenderHealth (New York, New York)
$185,000 in support of an international effort to reduce maternal mortality by identifying barriers to the availability and use of magnesium sulfate for the management of eclampsia and developing strategies to overcome those barriers. (2006)

European NGOs for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Population and Development (Brussels, Belgium)
$300,000 to increase the effectiveness of member organizations in advancing support for sexual and reproductive health and rights (over three years). (2006)

Family Care International (New York, New York)
$500,000 in support of a longitudinal study on the costs and consequences of maternal death and morbidity, and global advocacy efforts to build political will for Millennium Development Goal #5 (over three years). (2008)

Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights (Rockville, Maryland)
$120,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2006)

Guttmacher Institute (New York, New York)
$355,000 in support of an analysis of recent trends in maternal morbidity and mortality and in the reproductive health of young people in India, Mexico and Nigeria (over two years). (2006)

Gynuity Health Projects (New York, New York)
$400,000 in support of a pilot test of the SpringFusor pump for providing magnesium sulfate to treat pregnant women with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia (over two years). (2006)

Harvard University, School of Public Health (Boston, Massachusetts)
$500,000 in support of the development and application of a maternal morbidity and mortality policy model (over two years). (2007)

Imagine Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$25,000 in support of using community arts to raise awareness about maternal mortality. (2007)

Instituto Promundo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
$100,000 to support a multi-country research program on men's influence on reproductive health trends. (2008)

Inter-European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (Brussels, Belgium)
$250,000 in support of educational and advocacy efforts on population and reproductive health with European Parliamentarians (over 18 months). (2006)

International Planned Parenthood Federation (London, United Kingdom)
$520,000 in support of building the capacity of member associations to enhance governance, management, and quality services (over three years). (2007)

International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region (New York, New York)
$450,000 in support of international and national level advocacy aimed at increasing resources for sexual and reproductive health and rights (over three years). (2006)

International Women's Health Coalition (New York, New York)
$1,000,000 for general operating support (over three years). (2007)

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health (Baltimore, Maryland)
$200,000 to improve capacity in developing countries to estimate maternal mortality levels and trends. (2007)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to integrate best practices in reproductive health care into school based health centers in Chicago. (2007)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$1,600,000 in support of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab's study to measure the effectiveness of school-based strategies to prevent HIV/AIDS among youth in rural Kenya (over 44 months). (2006)

Options for Youth (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to evaluate a model program for delaying subsequent pregnancies among adolescent mothers. (2007)

Partners in Expanding Health Quality and Access (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
$200,000 in support of building capacity to scale up successfully tested health interventions (over three years). (2007)

Pathfinder International (Watertown, Massachusetts)
$10,700,000 to implement a package of interventions for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity due to postpartum hemorrhage in Indian and Nigeria (over four years). (2007)

Pathfinder International (Watertown, Massachusetts)
$250,000 in support of procurement of supplies to implement a package of interventions for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity due to postpartum hemorrhage in India and Nigeria. (2007)

Planned Parenthood / Chicago Area (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 in support of a comprehensive outreach plan for Latino families in the suburban Chicago area. (2007)

Population Association of America (Silver Spring, Maryland)
$100,000 to help build a fund to broaden the reach of the population sciences in the United States and abroad. (2008)

Population Council (New York, New York)
$2,400,000 in support of research, evidence-based interventions, and policy activities on maternal mortality and young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights in India, Mexico, Nigeria and globally (over three years). (2008)

Population Council (New York, New York)
$275,000 to support a pilot project to address postpartum hemorrhage at the community level in the Amhara region of Ethiopia (over two years). (2008)

Population Reference Bureau (Washington, D.C.)
$75,000 to translate documents and online content on population and reproductive health into Arabic. (2008)

Reproductive Health Matters (London, United Kingdom)
$600,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2008)

UNDP / UNFPA / WHO / World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (Geneva, Switzerland)
$50,000 in support of global dissemination of a special series in "The Lancet" on sexual and reproductive health (over 15 months). (2006)

United Nations Population Fund (New York, New York)
$300,000 in support of advocacy efforts in Europe to promote universal access to reproductive health (over two years). (2006)

University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
$130,000 to support the first phase of a project investigating the effectiveness of infection control practices for reducing maternal deaths from sepsis. (2009)

University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$500,000 to support research and policy activities related to low fertility and its consequences in China (over three years). (2008)

World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland)
$350,000 in support of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health project to increase global awareness and action aimed at reducing maternal mortality and morbidity (over three years). (2006)

Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
$150,000 in support of research investigating the contributions of declines in fertility to household economic outcomes in Matlab, Bangladesh (over three years). (2007)