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Office of Population and Reproductive Health (PRH): RTU
The Fertility Awareness-Based Methods (FAM) Project
Agreement Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Agreement Number:
GPO-A-00-07-00003
Project Number:
936-3107.04
Duration:
9/07 - 9/13
Geographic Scope:
Worldwide
COR/AOR:
Mihira Karra
Telephone:
(202) 712 - 5934
Fax:
(202) 216 - 3404
Email:
mkarra@usaid.gov
TA:
Jewel Gausman
Telephone:
(202) 712 - 4757
Email:
jgausman@usaid.gov
Activity Director:
Victoria Jennings
Institute for
Reproductive Health
Georgetown University
Telephone:
(202) 687 - 1392
Email:
jenningv@georgetown.edu
Website:
http://www.irh.
org/?q=content/fam-project
Purpose
To improve contraceptive choices by expanding access to fertility awareness-based
methods (FAMs), the Standard Days Method (SDM), the
TwoDay Method (TDM) and the Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM),
in developing countries. This activity addresses the needs of women and
men who want to use a FAM to avoid pregnancy but lack the information
and skills to use them effectively.
Services Provided
For some people, FAMs are their first introduction to FP and/or first choice
for contraception. The FAM project expands FAM options and services and
improves awareness of the fertile period. The project contains the following
elements:
• Operations Research to understand service delivery issues and scale-up
of FAMs;
• Mainstreaming FAMs into FP programs at a large scale in 8-10 focus
countries;
• Increasing RHA among youth, adults and at the community level;
• Evaluating the costs and cost-effectiveness of FAM services.
Improving capacity of public and private sector institutions to provide FAMs.
The project will provide technical assistance to Ministries of Health, NGOs,
other donors, other cooperating agencies, bilateral and other developing
country programs for the provision and expansion of the Standard Days
Method (SDM), The TwoDay Method (TDM) and the lactational Amenorrhea
Method (LAM). The project also focuses on empowering women and
men to participate in their own reproductive health care and decision-making.
Countries interested in expanding choices to include effective fertility awareness
based methods should contact either the implementing partner or the
USAID AOR.
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Means of Access
Field Support