MLE eNewsletter No. 19

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MLE Newsletter No. 19 - December 2011

In This Issue

MLE at the 2011 International Family Planning Conference

New Publications to MLE

Quick Links

About Us

22 December 2011

Times of India

Kenya HIV Families Torn Between Health Or Food [Kenya]

22 December 2011

NPR

New Partnership Integrates HIV, Reproductive Health for Young [Nigeria]

20 December 2011

AllAfrica.com

Urban Reproduction Rate on the Decline: Survey [Nepal]

17 December 2011

The Himalayan Times

Missed Opportunity for Family Planning in Urban Hospital Settings [Ghana]

8 December 2011

Vibe Ghana

International Conference Highlights Family Planning in Senegal [ISSU]

8 December 2011

Voice of America

Upcoming Events

Sixth Annual Research Conference on Population, Reproductive Health and Economic Development

Accra, Ghana

18 - 21 January 2012

Virtual Leadership Development Program for Improving Data Informed Decision Making

Internet-based program

30 January - 4 May 2012

International Conference on "Millennium Development Goals and Reproductive Health: Status and Interventions Needed to Achieve the Goals"

Mumbai, India

18 - 21 March 2012

The Urban Reproductive Health Initiative provides high-quality, cost-effective and voluntary family planning services to some of the world's most vulnerable people. The Initiative links country-level implementation teams in India (Uttar Pradesh), Nigeria, Kenya and Senegal with evaluation experts on the Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project to build a robust evidence and knowledge base that will shape future urban family planning/reproductive health policies and programs.

MLE at the 2011 International Conference on Family Planning

The Measurement, Learning and Evaluation (MLE) project for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative had an extensive presence at the 2011 International Conference on Family Planning in Dakar, Senegal.

This conference brought 2,500 participants together to share research, best practices and progress on national strategies to deliver affordable and high quality family planning services. Conference participants universally agreed that making family planning programs, policies and acceptance a high priority will significantly contribute to improving quality of life and well-being globally.

A total of 18 papers and posters were presented using the MLE baseline data. Many of the presentations will be included on the MLE website in 2012. For the complete list of MLE presentations, click here.

M & E 101 Short Course

The MLE project was pleased to offer an introductory workshop in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in French at the 2011 International Conference on Family Planning in Dakar last month. Twenty-seven participants gathered on 3 December for a day-long session designed to introduce researchers and program staff to evaluation design, identification of appropriate data sources, conceptual frameworks and logic models.

All the presentations from the training are now available on the MLE website.

For additional training materials and workshop offerings in M&E, visit the MEASURE Evaluation website.

For all other inquiries into the course

New Publications on MLE Website

Levels, Trends and Differentials in Family Planning and Reproductive Health Indicators in Urban Kenya

by MLE

This new MLE publication presents findings from an analysis of the 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2008/09 Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys and the 2010 Kenya Service Provision Assessment.

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Maternal and Neonatal Directed Assessment Tool (MANDATE)

by RTI International

This tool helps inform effective allocation of technology development resources. By calculating the potential number of maternal and neonatal lives saved, the tool allows users to identify and compare the potential impact of a technology.

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MDG 5b+ Info Database

by United Nations Population Fund

This database is the corporate data repository used by UNFPA at the global, regional and country levels, to facilitate the understanding of International Conference on Population and Development and MDG issues and to develop policies and programmes required to obtain the desired goals.

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Population Growth and the Global Health Workforce Crisis

by Capacity Plus, IntraHealth International

This technical brief discusses the potential impact of population growth on countries' efforts to improve their populations' access to skilled health workers.

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The MLE project is implemented by the University of North Carolina's Carolina Population Center, in collaboration with the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and the International Center for Research on Women.