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Acknowledgements
Michael Vlassoff and Deidre Wulf. Additional assistance in the development
of tools relevant to the report recommendations and their implementation and
in the provision of additional articles and inputs were provided by Oladele Arowolo,
Rudolfo Bulatao, Howard Friedman, Richard W. Osborn, Jim Phillips
and Eva Weissman. Editorial review and inputs were also provided by Garry
Conille and Lindsay Edouard. Data and analyses relevant to the development
and use of reproductive health indicators (and other intellectual stimulation and
inputs) were provided by Carla AbouZahr, John Bongaarts, John Casterline,
Trevor Croft, Ruth Dixon-Mueller, Attila Hancioglu, Kiersten Johnson, Vasantha
Kandiah, John Ross, Shea Rutstein, Lale Say, Florina Serbanescu, Iqbal
Shah, John Stover, Mary Beth Weinberger and Charles Westoff. Advice, materials
and support were also provided by Elizabeth Benomar, Eduard Bos, Thomas
Buettner, Richard Cincotta, Lynn Collins, Barbara Crossette, Judith R. Bueno
de Mesquita, Robert Engelman, Francois Farah, Duff Gillespie, Karen Hardee,
Paul Hunt, Steve Kraus, Dima Malhas, John May, Sally Patterson, Kate Ramsey,
Janneke Saltner, Joe Speidel and Hania Zlotnik.
Additional appreciation is due to many UN system colleagues, including
Paul De Lay, Helga Fogstad, Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Ralph Hakkert, Monir
Islam, Ben Light, Edilberto Loaiza, George Martine, Zoe Matthews, Suman
Mehta, Benson Morah, Monique Rakotomalala, Jagdish Upadhyay, Paul
van Look and Tessa Wardlaw. Special gratitude is offered to Thoraya Obaid,
Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the
management of the Fund that loaned me to this effort.
Additional thanks are offered to the support provided by Sono Aibe, Sarah
Clark, Sara Costa, Jacqueline Darroch, Tamara Fox, Judith Helzner Blair
Sachs and Sara Seims through personal contacts and the financial contributions
by the Foundations they serve: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Ford Foundation and The David and
Lucile Packard Foundation.
Finally, special thanks are offered to Marianne Haslegrave, whose tireless
and magnanimous efforts have made this opus possible and improved it.
The report was edited by Tina Johnson under challenging circumstances.
My dedicated research analysts, Charlotte Juul Hansen and Emily White
Johansson, made invaluable contributions to this effort by both researching
and writing specific sections of the report. This significant work deservedly
earns them primary credit.