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Annual Report (
19 November 2007 )
 In 2006, the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) worked hand-in-hand with over 130 community organizations and other partners who shared our belief that women and girls are critical for advancing global development, democracy and progress. Together, we reached more than one million women and girls—and supportive men and boys—to give them the knowledge and tools to improve their lives and strengthen their communities. Read more about our work and financial information in our 2006 Annual Report.
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Annual Report (
15 August 2010 )
 In 2009, CEDPA headquarters and its four field offices—India, Nepal, Nigeria and South Africa—worked with 87 local partner organizations to implement projects in five priority areas: reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, girls’ education and youth development, gender and governance, policy and advocacy, and leadership and capacity building. In total, 684,905 individuals received direct services in these priority areas, with an additional 486,181 individuals participating in trainings and community mobilization events. Read more about our work in 2009.
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Annual Report (
14 November 2011 )
 For over three decades now, CEDPA has transformed lives and empowered women, and men, to take ownership of their lives and determine the outcome of the future for their families, organizations, communities and nations. In 2010, CEDPA's programs directly touched more than 314,000 individuals with services; built the capacity of and mobilized in excess of 300,000 people; and strengthened and partnered with over 30 organizations. Read more about our successful programs in 2010 and about some of the women and girls who participated in them.Note: Save file onto your computer to download publication. Opening directly in your internet browser will result in an unreadable file.
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Research Report (
1 January 2002 )
 Benue State in central Nigeria has the highest HIV/AIDS sero-prevalence rate in the country. In response to this need, CEDPA/Nigeria supported the Vulnerable Children's Project. The project focused on providing emergency support services, building caregivers' capacity, and mobilizing the community. The baseline study shows that there is an urgent need for more aggressive adolescent sexual reproductive health interventions.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
1 May 2005 )
In order to create broader community change and supportive policies, CEDPA’s programs typically engage individual participants and local nongovernmental organizations in advocacy work. In Egypt, CEDPA developed teams of trained advocates in 17 governorates during 2001–2004. Advocates convinced local authorities to increase access to health services andeducation and to provide income generation opportunities for women and girls.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
30 March 2006 )
 CEDPA's integrated and holistic approach to improving the lives of young people has been implemented successfully in a range of countries and contexts, using a diverse set of methodologies. Called the Better Life Options and Opportunities Model (or BLOOM), this approach has developed hundreds of thousands of empowered adolescents educated, healthy, gender-sensitive, and capable of making good decisions in life by exposing them to better life options to make choices and creating an enabling environment to help them translate their choices into action.
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Handbook (
15 November 2006 )
 This handbook focuses on efforts to bring women into governance, illustrating ways that organizations and activists around the world can foster greater gender equity in civic engagement, advocacy, voting and governance efforts to improve the quality of life for everyone. Six chapters highlight key approaches to supporting women's leadership to make governments worldwide more responsive to the needs of women.
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Project Report (
1 January 2003 )
.gif) This publication describes the formation of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, its development from a small group of committed citizens to a global movement encompassing 24 countries and over 200 members, and the strategic planning process towards strengthening the Global Secretariat's organizational structure. The important lessons learned by the global alliance, its members and other alliances are highlighted within the text. This publication is a useful tool for understanding how such an alliance is formed and can grow from just a few people to a large, vocal mass movement demanding change and action around an issue. To request a free hard copy of this publication, please contact the White Ribbon Alliance.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
15 September 2008 )
 India has among the highest number of maternal deaths of any country in the world today. Every seven minutes one woman in India dies from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This results in over 100,000 mothers dying every year. The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood is a coalition of organizations working together to increase awareness, build alliances and act as a catalyst for action in order to reduce maternal mortality. The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) helped form the White Ribbon Alliance India (WRAI) in 1999 to bring critical attention and action to the need of making motherhood safer in India. Currently, CEDPA acts as the secretariat for the WRAI providing technical assistance and leading advocacy and communications strategies.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
14 August 2008 )
 Study after study has shown that investing in women advances community development. Institutions including the World Bank have documented how increasing women’s educational attainment and promoting their equal opportunity in the labor force and public life can reduce poverty and promote national growth. Investing in women also greatly enhances the well-being of families and their children, who are more likely to survive and thrive if their mothers are healthy and educated. For more than 30 years, the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) has trained developing-country women—and committed men and young people—to advance international development and change the social and political context that impedes opportunity for women and girls. The Global Women in Management program is CEDPA’s longest running training program, with thousands of graduate worldwide. The program responds to today’s development context that demands greater levels of management accountability and programmatic results by providing rigorous leadership and management training that builds women’s skills to run successful organizations.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
13 January 2007 )
 Since the late 1990s, the Maoist insurgency in Nepal has wreaked havoc on the nation’s economy, infrastructure and community life, resulting in more than 13,000 deaths and widespread violence and insecurity. The rebellion has destroyed property and economic resources and led to widespread social dislocation. On April 27, 2006, after a series of mass demonstrations across Nepal forced the King to relinquish his autocratic hold on the government, the Communist Party of Nepal- Maoist declared a ceasefire. Though significant, the prospect for a lasting peace remained fragile, highlighting the importance of continuing and expanding peace and conflict resolution work in Nepal at all levels. To address the social problems resulting from years of conflict, CEDPA and local partner Nagarik Aawaz began working together on the Communities for Peace project in July 2005.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
29 March 2007 )
CEDPA has been implementing the Empowering Grassroots Egyptian Women through Advocacy Networks project in Egypt since 2004. Designed to identify and address the specific needs of women and girls by enabling women and their supporters to advocate for and influence policy changes at the governorate level, the project delivers training and technical assistance to governorate level non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local branches of the National Council for Women (NCW) to form advocacy networks.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
1 May 2005 )
In collaboration with the Ministry of Youth, CEDPA/Egypt conducted a series of Leadership Camps for young volunteers from its local partner organizations. Working in teams and drawing the participation of local youth and community members, the camp participants implemented 17 community service projects that provided education for women and youth and improved community life.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
1 January 2003 )
The following “Highlights” are a series of two-page summaries that give a clear and concise outline of CEDPA’s Enabling Change for Women’s Reproductive Health (ENABLE) Project.
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Project Report (
1 August 2003 )
 The Enabling Change for Women’s Reproductive Health (ENABLE) Project, implemented during 1998-2003 in Ghana, India, Nepal, Nigeria and Senegal, aimed to strengthen women’s capabilities for informed and autonomous decision making to prevent unintended pregnancy and improve reproductive health. ENABLE worked to bring reproductive health services closer to isolated rural communities and urban slums by collaborating with community organizations to offer local services plus referrals to health facilities. In addition to assisting individuals, ENABLE worked to change the overall social and cultural climate that influences reproductive health decision making and limits access to health services. This final report summarizes the ENABLE Project’s key accomplishments and describes strategies that are suitable for replication.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
30 September 2008 )
 For more than 30 years, the Centre for Development and Population Activities’ (CEDPA) governance programs have registered new women voters; raised women’s voices within peace efforts; mobilized advocates for better laws and public policy; and increased women’s political participation. Part of CEDPA’s work in Nepal is grounded in the organization’s dedication to assuring women’s greater participation in governance.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
1 September 2005 )
Under the ENABLE Safe Motherhood Core Initiative, CEDPA/India collaborated with the Community Aid and Sponsorship Program on the Safe Motherhood Initiative to reduce maternal death by showing women, their families and their communities how to prepare for a safe delivery, to identify pregnancy-related complications at their onset, and to seek medical help immediately.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
27 October 2009 )
 In April 2007, the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) signed an agreement with World Learning and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for the Expanding Voluntary Use of Contraception in the Central Terai Region of Nepal project. Central Terai is home to some of the nation’s most marginalized populations. The project’s goal was to maximize the number of well-planned families resulting from improved family planning and reproductive health practices by utilizing a cadre of trained volunteers to disseminate information, counsel families and provide commodities. Overall, the project successfully achieved its objectives and in several cases surpassed the expected results in family planning knowledge, attitude and behaviors.
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Project Report (
19 October 2009 )
 Expanding the Voluntary Use of Contraception in the Central Terai Family Future Project was designed to increase the use of voluntary family planning for married women of reproductive age from poor and marginalized communities in the Central Terai. Funded by USAID in partnership with World Learning, the program was implemented in three districts, Bara, Rautahat and Sarlahi, where more than 90 percent of the project population was from marginalized communities. The project selected and trained young educated men and women as peer health educators to lead discussions with their peers on family planning, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. Using CEDPA’s Choose a Future! manual, peer health educators led discussion sessions related to puberty, sexual and reproductive health, family planning and goal setting. CEDPA staff also trained adult volunteers, family future supporters, to provide commodities at the doorstep, counsel men and women on contraceptive methods, and explain how to access family planning for couples interested in contraception. This report provides a detailed explanation of the project and its results.
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Research Report (
10 November 2010 )
 From the Ground Up highlights the stories of 13 Global Women in Management (GWIM) workshop alumni hailing from around the globe. CEDPA’s proven GWIM workshop, first offered in 1978, is a month-long training for mid-level women managers from nongovernmental organizations. The stories included in this publication are borrowed from formal case studies conducted as part of the GWIM program evaluation. Some of the alumni teach vocational skills that help fellow women earn a living. Some mobilize women to participate more actively in policy making. One even ran for public office after her workshop experience. These profiles illustrate how strengthening the capacity of women leaders at the grassroots level can change lives and advance economies through bolstering the reach of community and national level organizations. Note: Save file onto your computer to download publication. Opening directly in your internet browser will result in an unreadable file.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
13 May 2010 )
 CEDPA is an international leader in designing and implementing programs to improve the lives of women and girls. For over thirty years CEDPA has been recognized as a global expert in participatory approaches to stakeholder and community engagement; capacity assessment and capacity building of NGOs, community-based organizations and faith-based organizations; working with men and boys to challenge traditional gender norms that lead to negative social and health outcomes; women’s empowerment and leadership training; and community mobilization in support of advances for women. CEDPA’s long history of inciting change for women has given it unique skills and insights into how to design programs that mobilize communities in support of advances for women and minimize the potential for backlash. Read more about CEDPA’s corporate social responsibility and partnership programs.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
1 May 2005 )
In Egypt, the Girls’ Scholarship Program provided 20,879 scholarships during 1994–2004 to enable 4,626 youth from low-income families to attend school. School enrollment for girls has increased in participating communities. The program generated stronger community support
for girls’ education and encouraged parents to become more involved in local schools.
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Training Manual (
1 June 2003 )
 This manual is Volume III of the Integrating Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS for NGOs, FBOs & CBOs series. The curriculum provided in this manual seeks to empower family and community members with knowledge about living healthy with HIV/AIDS, providing care and support, and dealing with death and dying. Community members are urged to work together to find solutions to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS.
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Project Report (
1 August 2003 )
 This report documents the experience of two global USAID-funded initiatives and describes how social mobilization has effectively been applied to the field of reproductive health and safe motherhood. The report describes how mulitsectoral coalitions or alliances use a social mobilization approach to foster local capacity and ownership, shared commitment and mutual accountability for health.
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Project Report (
1 January 2000 )
 Using a rights and freedom-based approach as a conceptual framework, this report analyzes a sample of projects conducted under the Promoting Women In Development program conducted by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and CEDPA. The discussion covers four key areas: mobilizing community participation and influencing institutional policies; leveling the field for women's increased economic participation, including the right to productive resources and employment; equity in financial resources and enterprise development; and expanded opportunities for participation and advocacy in sustainable resource management.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
1 January 2002 )
This two-page fact sheet provides an overview of the Partnerships for Advocacy and Civil Empowerment (PACE). PACE was a consortium of three well-established international development organizations formed to implement USAID-Nigeria’s Civil Society Assistance Program. PACE partnered with Nigerian groups to increase civil society participation in public deliberations, oversight of government and conflict management.
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Training Manual (
1 June 2003 )
 This is Volume IV of the Integrating Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS for NGOs, FBOs & CBOsseries. Based on CEDPA's experience in Nepal, this manual promotes social mobilization as a means for communities to increase local participation and women's empowerment in addressing HIV/AIDS. The five-day curriculum imparts skills in advocacy, behavior change communication and social marketing at national and grassroots levels. Although it was developed specifically for Nepal, the lessons are applicable to a variety of contexts.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
1 September 2005 )
CEDPA/India
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Annual Report (
30 October 2006 )
 This publication details 30 years of CEDPA's experience in advancing girls' education and youth development, increasing access to lifesaving reproductive health and HIV/AIDS services, and building women's leadership worldwide. It includes detailed descriptions of successful strategies and approaches to improve the lives of women and girls.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
21 September 2008 )
 More women in India die during pregnancy and childbirth than in any other country in the world, a number that accounts for 20 percent of the world’s maternal deaths. Sadly, the majority of these deaths can be prevented though access to skilled attendants and emergency obstetric care facilities and supplies. With funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a new consortium of global organizations is working to save the lives of women and children in India by building capacity within the country to improve policies, programs and resources in the areas of maternal, neonatal and child health, and nutrition.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
1 September 2005 )
Overview of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood in India
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Training Manual (
1 June 2000 )
 A five-day, 12-session participatory curriculum based on CEDPA's experience working with the non-governmental sector. This manual promotes social mobilization as a means for communities to declare publicly their rights to control their reproductive health and to create widespread support for those rights. Social mobilization is a dynamic, long-term process in which stakeholders use a number of techniques, including advocacy, behavior change communication, and social marketing, each one building on the next to make sustainable changes in society. Social mobilization creates the enabling environment, as well as the vehicle for broad-based change to occur. The workshop presents practical means and models for maximizing community participation and involving all stakeholders in the design and implementation of family planning and reproductive health programs. The manual is designed to strengthen the efforts of development leader and managers from both the organizations and public sectors at national and grassroots levels to increase local participation and, simultaneously, women's empowerment.
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Project Report (
1 January 2003 )
 This publication describes the formation of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, its development from a small group of committed citizens to a global movement encompassing 24 countries and over 200 members, and the strategic planning process towards strengthening the Global Secretariat's organizational structure. The important lessons learned by the global alliance, its members and other alliances are highlighted within the text. This publication is a useful tool for understanding how such an alliance is formed and can grow from just a few people to a large, vocal mass movement demanding change and action around an issue. To request a free hard copy of this publication, please contact: wra2@whiteribbonalliance.org.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
30 November 2009 )
 In April 2007, the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) signed an agreement with World Learning and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for the Expanding Voluntary Use of Contraception in the Central Terai Region of Nepal project. Central Terai is home to some of the nation’s most marginalized populations. The project’s goal was to maximize the number of well-planned families resulting from improved family planning and reproductive health practices by utilizing a cadre of trained volunteers to disseminate information, counsel families and provide commodities. The evaluation of the program showed success in improving spousal communication and family planning knowledge in this region of Nepal. This poster presentation was displayed at the 2009 International Conference on Family Planning: Research and Best Practices in Kampala.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
14 September 2008 )
 Nigeria has the third largest number of HIV infections in the world, with roughly four million men, women and children living with HIV and AIDS according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Infection rates have spiraled over the past decade, particularly among young women. And because of Nigeria’s poor health infrastructure, there is an enormous unmet need for HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services. With funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) implements the four-year, $12.8 million Positive Living project to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS, their families and communities in Nigeria. The project will run from 2006-2010, working hand-in-hand with a consortium of local faith-based organizations, community groups and networks of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in 20 states across Nigeria.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
1 May 2005 )
CEDPA/Egypt has developed an effective model for community-level female genital mutilation (FGM) abandonment programs, based on community education, advocacy with local leaders, formation of teams of anti-FGM activists and home visits to parents of at-risk girls. These interventions have led to more open community discussion about FGM and greater opposition to the practice.
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Special Booklet (
28 May 2010 )
 The PAHEL: Towards Empowering Women project builds the leadership and advocacy skills of women elected to panchayats (local councils) in the Patna district of India, to improve reproductive health services in their communities. The project, implemented by CEDPA India in partnership with many community organizations, educates these political officials about sexual and reproductive health and their role in promoting effective policies surrounding these issues. Almost 300 women panchayat members have been trained under PAHEL. The stories in this book reflect the personal journeys of women leaders who have been an integral part of PAHEL, and their reflections on their work as change makers in their communities.
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