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Share how you used "Family Planning: Pathway to Poverty Reduction" and WIN a Kindle Fire!
Has "Family Planning: Pathway to Poverty Reduction" helped you engage audiences in policy dialogue about family planning? If so, tell us about it! Send us your success story and you could win the new Kindle Fire from Amazon, compliments of PRB. With the Kindle Fire’s stunning color touchscreen you can access books, movies, music, the web, and even PRB's ENGAGE presentations anywhere!
End Date: The contest ends May 31, 2012. Five winning entries will be selected in June 2012 by a PRB review panel based on their contribution to the IDEA project goals, ability to reach target audiences, and best use of the presentation.
To enter: Click here. One entry per delivery of a presentation. Multiple entries are allowed, but each one must be submitted as a separate entry. Please be sure to answer all required questions.
With funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the IDEA project—Informing Decisionmakers to Act—increases support among policy audiences for effective health and population programs around the world. Target audiences for IDEA communication activities include policymakers, opinion leaders, decisionmakers, advocates, and the media.
If you have any additional documentation of this event that you wish to submit to PRB, please do so by sending an email with the subject line "ENGAGE Contest" to idea@prb.org. Be sure to include your name and the name and date of your event in the email. Please note that we are not able to accept emails with attachments greater than 9MB.
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PRB created these ENGAGE Multimedia presentations in collaboration with local implementing agencies in selected countries. Designed to "engage" high-level policymakers and other leaders in issues related to family planning and reproductive health, ENGAGE presentations are capturing attention across the globe. They offer exciting new ways of exploring associations among population, health, and socioeconomic indicators across time in a visually stimulating way.
Watch all PRB's ENGAGE presentations with PRB's YouTube playlist. Click on the grey box icon on the bottom of the video player to navigate to different videos.
- Family Planning: Pathway to Poverty Reduction seeks to improve individuals' understanding of how family planning contributes to economic growth and poverty reduction at the family, community, and national levels, and to reposition family planning higher on national and local policy agendas in sub-Saharan Africa. The presentation is designed to promote policy dialogue on the health and economic benefits of family planning and presents family planning as a cost-effective, high-yield intervention.
- Malawi: Investing in Our Future Now highlights the advances Malawi has made and the challenges it still faces as it strives to become a middle-income country. Exploring the impact of rapid population growth at the national and the family level, the presentation illustrates the links between rapid population growth, family planning and development. The presentation underscores the importance of addressing rapid population growth and meeting unmet need for family planning in order to reduce poverty and achieve national development goals.
- Kenya Leading the Way highlights both the improvements in development indicators over time as well as the disruptions and "stall" in family planning use. Focusing on the high level of unmet need for family planning, it presents the many consequences of unplanned pregnancies, including high-risk births, maternal mortality, and rapid population growth. The presentation links family planning as a central component of development in order to reduce poverty.
- Generations on the Rise in Pakistan highlights improvements in family planning use over time as well as the gaps in implementation. Focusing on the high level of unmet need for family planning, it presents the many costs and consequences of high fertility and unplanned pregnancies. The presentation underscores how increased family planning use can lead to improvements in the health and wellbeing of Pakistani families.
- Uganda on the Move highlights both the improvements in development indicators over time (the "successes") as well as the challenges Uganda faces with one of the fastest growing populations in the world. Through Google Earth map, the audience has a birds-eye view of Uganda's rapidly growing capital city (Kampala) and the impacts of rapid urban growth. The presentation links family planning as a central component of development in order to reduce poverty, underscoring how increased family planning use can contribute to strengthening the economic goals of the country.