$500,000
2017 • 2 years 7 months • Population & Reproductive Health
Headquartered in New York City and with 14 international offices, the Population Council (the Council) conducts policy-relevant research and designs and tests innovative models to improve sexual and reproductive health around the world. With general support from MacArthur, the Council advances work on its new Strategic Priorities Framework to achieve its mission to improve the well-being of current and future generations, and help achieve a sustainable balance between people and resources. The award supports the Council to invest in priority areas in sexual and reproductive health, where evidence will yield the greatest policy impact.
$600,000
2016 • 4 years 11 months • Population & Reproductive Health
Founded in 1952, the Population Council, an international non-profit research organization, seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations and help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources. This award supports a program of work that seeks to deepen the knowledge of maternal and newborn health in India through in-depth analyses of various data sets; build capacity to support a new generation of maternal health researchers; and disseminate the knowledge generated to advocate for increased investments and changes in maternal health policy and programs in India.
$200,000
2016 • 1 year • Population & Reproductive Health
Founded in 1952, Population Council is a global organization that has had an office in Nigeria since the 1960s. The Council has been instrumental in the design of reproductive health products (especially contraceptives), service delivery programs, and making public policies responsive to the reproductive health needs of people in developing countries, including Nigeria. Through a previous Foundation award, Population Council trained and mentored health care providers in Kano state on the early detection and treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia using magnesium sulfate and piloted task-shifting to community health extension workers. Population Council is currently working in Katsina state with Foundation support to replicate the successes achieved in Kano state. In this project the organization is working to institutionalize the applications of magnesium sulfate for the treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Kano and Katsina states.
$50,000
2016 • 4 months • Population & Reproductive Health
The Population Council is a global organization that has had an office in Mexico since 1979; its research on reproductive and sexual health issues produces evidence for planning effective interventions. The Council is studying how women-centered maternal health care is being taken up in the Mexican private health and education sectors. Through desk research, site visits, and interviews, the Council is mapping how the model of maternal health care is changing within the private sector and whether this has the potential to influence broader changes in maternal health care.
$35,000
2015 • 3 months • Girls' Secondary Education in Developing Countries
The Population Council, along with local partner organizations, will design, pilot and test an intervention in the state of Gujarat in India that seeks to increase girls’ transition to secondary education and improve learning outcomes through a program of mobilizing parents and communities using public campaigns and mobile phone technology.
$2,200,000
2014 • 3 years 4 months • Population & Reproductive Health
The Population Council conducts policy-relevant research and designs and tests innovative models to improve sexual and reproductive health (SRH) around the world. Council staff will carry out a varied package of action and policy research to generate new evidence about maternal and reproductive health.
$400,000
2013 • 2 years 8 months • Population & Reproductive Health
Population Council staff will work with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) to test models offering comprehensive responses to sexual violence in conflict, post-conflict, and refugee settings. The results will be used to inform UNHCR’s strategy against sexual and gender-based violence.
$500,000
2013 • 3 years • Population & Reproductive Health
This grant will allow the Population Council to add a greater focus on reproductive health to its program of action-research, or “operations research,” aimed at increasing the evidence about what works to improve the lives and health of adolescent girls in the global South. In addition, the Council will update a monograph on addressing the needs of adolescents aged 10-14, and will disseminate the resulting product through events and social media.
$225,000
2012 • 2 years 4 months • Girls' Secondary Education in Developing Countries
The Population Council, along with local partner organizations, will design, pilot and test an intervention in the state of Gujarat in India that seeks to increase girls’ transition to secondary education and improve learning outcomes through a program of mobilizing parents and communities using public campaigns and mobile phone technology.
$115,000
2012 • 2 years • Population & Reproductive Health
The Population Council proposes research that focuses on enabling a better understanding of the determinants of sexual and reproductive health behaviors and practices that take place among young people as they transition into adulthood. The project builds on data and insights obtained from a research project previously conducted by the International Institute for Population Sciences and the Population Council, namely, the “Youth in India: Situation and Needs” study. This follow-up survey, which will be conducted in the state of Rajasthan, seeks to provide more evidence-based lessons for programs and policies intended to advance young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights.
$2,200,000
2011 • 3 years • Population & Reproductive Health
To advance maternal and young people's reproductive health in India, Nigeria, Mexico, and globally (over three years).
$275,000
2008 • 3 years 6 months • Population & Reproductive Health
To support a pilot project to address postpartum hemorrhage at the community level in the Amhara region of Ethiopia (over two years).
$2,400,000
2008 • 3 years 10 months • Population & Reproductive Health
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).
$250,000
2007 • 2 years 3 months • Human Rights
To support The Protective Role of Education in Humanitarian Emergencies project (over two years).
$100,000
2007 • 2 years 9 months • Population & Reproductive Health
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.
$250,000
2006 • 2 years 6 months • Population & Reproductive Health
To establish a web-based Arabic language resource and documentation center in population and reproductive health (over two years).
$1,600,000
2005 • 3 years 3 months • Population & Reproductive Health
In support of programs on reducing maternal mortality and advancing young people's reproductive health in Mexico, India, and globally (over three years).
$100,000
2005 • 1 year 8 months
In support of Arabic translation and web-based distribution of key Council documents in population and reproductive health.
$510,000
2005 • 3 years • Population & Reproductive Health
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 (over two years).
$75,000
2004 • 8 months • Population & Reproductive Health
For a project to share international expertise on maternal mortality reduction with relevant Mexican government officials (over eight months).
$50,000
2004 • 1 year • Population & Reproductive Health
In support of an endowment for the Policy Research Division.
$30,000
2004 • 5 months • Population & Reproductive Health
To conduct research on married adolescents in northern Nigeria.
$240,000
2004 • 2 years 7 months • Population & Reproductive Health
In support of a program to develop the leadership skills of individuals working in reproductive health and sexual rights in India.
$775,000
2002 • 3 years 5 months • Population & Reproductive Health
To support research, technical assistance, and policy advocacy on safe motherhood and other reproductive health issues, with a special focus on Mexico (over three years).
$1,190,000
1999 • 5 years 9 months • Population & Reproductive Health
To support the Robert H. Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health (over three years).
$750,000
1996 • 3 years 7 months • Population & Reproductive Health
To support programs that address reproductive health and rights (over three years).
$210,000
1995 • 3 years • Population & Reproductive Health
To support a program in Mexico on the interaction between men, families, and reproductive health (over three years).
$42,000
1994 • 1 year • Population & Reproductive Health
For a meeting of the International Advisory Group of the Population Program.
$900,000
1993 • 3 years 6 months
To support the Robert H. Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health (over three years).
$1,500,000
1989 • 2 years 1 month
To support the Robert H. Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health (over three years).