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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 )
.gif) Under the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Their Reproductive Health (A GIFT for RH Project), girls aged 10–19 living in remote regions of Nepal attended a nine-month course that covered literacy as well as family life. The girls then participated in monthly discussion groups during the following year. An evaluation survey of 891 girls found that their knowledge of reproductive health had increased markedly during their time in the program. Program participants tripled their use of formal health services. Most of the girls aged 10–14 went on to school. After the course, girls favored later marriage and wanted to learn income-generating skills.
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Research Report (
1 January 2001 )
.gif) In 2000, CEDPA/India completed a cross-sectional comparative study to measure the impact of the Better Life Options Program on the lives of its beneficiaries as compared to those who did not participate in the program. The study showed that the program had resulted in significant impact on participants’ economic empowerment, self-esteem and confidence, decision-making, reproductive health, child survival practices and fertility.
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Research Report (
1 January 2004 )
This report summarizes the findings of a June 2004 survey to evaluate a non-formal education course on literacy and reproductive health. After completing the course, 96 percent of the girls could read and write. Many girls began attending school—93 percent of those aged 10–14 and 26 percent of those aged 15–19. Program participants increased their visits to health posts to resolve health problems, expressed a preference for later marriage, communicated more easily with their parents and were more knowledgeable about reproductive health, compared with the March 2003 baseline study. Conducted in Nepal’s Lalitpur and Baglung districts, the endline survey was designed to assess the impact of Phase II of the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Their Reproductive Health Project (A GIFT for RH II), which was implemented by Aamaa Milan Kendra, managed by CEDPA/Nepal and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Overall, the project increased girls’ self-confidence and ability to access health services and information.
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Research Report (
1 January 2003 )
.gif) The 891 girls aged 10–19 who participated in the Adolescent Girls Initiate for Their Reproductive Health (A GIFT for RH Project) in Nepal were interviewed at three intervals: (1) before they started a nine-month literacy and family life course; (2) soon after course completion; and (3) one year later after they had participated in discussion groups. Knowledge of pregnancy risk, family planning, safe pregnancy and HIV/AIDS increased after the course and continued to grow during the discussion group period. Knowledge of sources of health care rose from less than 60 percent in the initial survey to 98 percent in the third survey.
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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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Project Report (
24 April 2012 )
 Nigeria is one of the most populous countries in Africa with a population of over 154 million inhabitants. While 73 percent of Nigerian males are literate, less than half (48 percent) of their female counterparts can read and write. In the Southern region of Nigeria, 21 percent of females and 19 percent of males have never attended primary school. Nigeria has the second-highest number of HIV/AIDS infections in the world, surpassed only by South Africa. Although Akwa Ibom state in the southern region of Nigeria has the second highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in the country, 92 percent of those living in the region believed they had no risk of contracting HIV and many were unaware of appropriate methods to prevent the infection.
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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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Project Report (
2 June 2006 )
From 2004 to 2006, CEDPA joined with local partners in the Baglung, Mohottari and Udayapur districts of Nepal to improve adolescent girls’ lives through a non-formal education program. The program reached 3,200 adolescents between the ages of 10–19 through literacy and critical life skills training that improved reproductive health knowledge and strengthened participant self-confidence. Recognizing the need to work with boys as well as girls to change community norms, boys were included in year two of the program. CEDPA and its partners—Aamaa Milan Kendra, Nepal Technical Assistance Group and the Nepal Red Cross Society—also addressed family and community factors to provide support for changes in attitudes and behaviors. An impressive 45 percent of the out-of-school girls who completed the literacy training component enrolled in primary schools as a result of the project.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
26 September 2007 )
From 2004 to 2006, Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) joined with local partners in the Baglung, Mohottari and Udayapur districts of Nepal to improve adolescents’ lives through a nonformal
education program. The program reached 3,200 adolescents between the ages of 10–19 through literacy and critical life skills training that improved reproductive health knowledge and strengthened participant self-confidence. Recognizing the need to work with boys as well as girls to change community norms, boys were included in year two of the program. CEDPA and its partners—Aamaa Milan Kendra, Nepal Technical Assistance Group and the Nepal Red Cross Society—also addressed family and community factors to provide support for changes in attitudes and behaviors. An impressive 45 percent of the out-of-school girls who completed the literacy training component enrolled in primary schools as a result of the project.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
7 February 2011 )
 Nigeria is the tenth largest country in the world and the most populous country in Africa. However, according to the 2007/2008 Human Development Report, only 68 percent of children who are primary-school age attend school. In secondary school, enrollment drops even further, to 27 percent. Although the percentage of literate female youth has greatly increased in the last decade, there is still a significant disparity between literacy rates for men and women (60 percent of women vs. 78 percent of men). This is largely due to the fact that over four million Nigerian girls of primary school age do not attend school. Of the girls who do attend primary school, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics has estimated that 32 percent drop out before they finish the fifth grade. The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) is improving the lives of Nigerian girls and boys ages 10–19 in Akwa Ibom State through the Better Life Options (BLO) project. This program provides girls and boys who are out of school with participatory life skills training and encourages participants to enroll or re-enroll in the formal school system. 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 (
1 May 2005 )
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) were CEDPA/Egypt’s primary implementing partners in the Towards New Horizons Project. To effectively carry out this critical role, CEDPA/Egypt committed significant project resources to enhance their capacity to plan,
design, implement, monitor and evaluate sustainable development programs that benefit girls and young women. These activities, primarily technical assistance and training, benefitted more than 300 NGO partners associated with the project.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
1 September 2005 )
Overview of CEDPA/India's projects.
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Research Report (
30 July 2008 )
 Adolescent girls in Nepal face enormous social barriers accessing education, and health due to exclusionary socio-religious traditions and years of conflict. The program and study reported here address two issues that girls identified as critical to their well-being—HIV risk awareness and menstrual restrictions. Local NGOs developed a peer education program in three districts of Nepal that paired girls from different castes and different educational levels. The program sought to increase peer educators’ leadership and collective efficacy to inform peers and adults in the community about the effects these issues have on women and girls.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
17 March 2006 )
This two-page fact sheet gives an overview of CEDPA's Better Life Options Program in India. In 1987, CEDPA established the program to address the numerous concerns and needs in an adolescent’s life. The program seeks to break gender stereotypes and change the gender balance between boys and girls; develop life skills; and build self-esteem, confidence and feelings of self worth in young people.
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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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Project Report (
1 February 2006 )
En collaboration avec le Centre pour le développement des activités de population (CEDPA) et le Ministère de la Santé et le Ministère de la Jeunesse, le Population Council mène dans le cadre de son programme « Frontière en santé de la reproduction», une recherche opérationnelle destinée à avoir une meilleure compréhension des interventions conçues spécifiquement pour améliorer la communication entre les parents/tuteurs et les adolescents en matière de santé de la reproduction/VIH/SIDA. Plus spécifiquement l’objectif de cette recherche est d’évaluer la fonctionnalité d’un modèle d’intervention destiné à prendre en charge la communication adulte/adolescents. L’étude à lieu est essentiellement circonscrite au département de Kaolack et à l’intérieur de celui-ci département quatre communautés rurales en Sénégal (Ndiedieng, Ndiaffate, Koumbal, Dya) et un quartier de la ville ont été choisies pour abriter les interventions.
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Project Report (
1 January 2004 )
 This report details the franchising and scaling up of the Better Life Options Program, CEDPA’s adolescent program in India. The program seeks to empower girls and boys aged 10–19 to make decisions in their own self-interest and to envision and achieve more equitable relationships. The franchising of BLP was implemented through nine state-level technical assistance partner agencies and 247 local organizations. The franchising approach was based on the Better Life Options and Opportunities Model (BLOOM), an integrated and holistic approach to youth development, with strong emphasis on capacity building of local organizations, developing partnerships and networks, and building advocacy activities. The program reached more than 146,000 youth in ten states. The report describes how the program was implemented with several BLOOM Adolescent Network partner agencies, highlights the program’s major results and impacts, and shares challenges and lessons learned in its implementation.
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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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Special Booklet (
31 July 2006 )
 This two-page publication catalog lists all of CEDPA’s relevant HIV/AIDS resources. Many of these publications are available for download in PDF format free of charge.
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Research Report (
1 January 2003 )
.gif) New Horizons is a non-formal education program designed to explain essential information on basic life skills and reproductive health to disadvantaged young women, ages nine to 20. This study assesses the changes that have resulted from New Horizons interventions in program participants, their families, and the community. The study concluded that: 1) the beneficiaries and their parents have more positive attitudes and behaviors toward education, health, and the status of women, as well as greater self-confidence; 2) learning enhanced the school performance and social skills of participants; 3) participants had improved and more open communication with family members, especially with male members; and 4) the reproductive health education provided by the program has contributed to a better understanding and practices.
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Research Report (
1 January 2003 )
 In September 2001, CEDPA initiated a 16-month pilot project on "Adolescent-Friendly Reproductive Health Services" with four non-governmental organizations in India. This study assessed the project's impact in increasing adolescents' knowledge of puberty, family planning and HIV/AIDS. Significant changes were found among all age groups and educational levels."
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Project Report (
1 August 2004 )
This report provides an overview of CEDPA’s work in Egypt from 1994–2004, detailing the evolution and impact of program activities funded by USAID/Egypt. The report describes the work of CEDPA and its partner organizations to improve the lives of girls and young women throughout Egypt. Over the past decade, CEDPA/Egypt has expanded its program from five to 21 governorates and has worked with some 400 Egyptian nongovernmental organizations and community development associations. Nearly 77,000 girls and young women completed the New Horizons program, a nonformal life skills education program, and more than 17,000 boys and young men participated in the New Visions Program. Other program elements included advocacy for gender equity, community education to broaden the life options for girls, initiatives to eradicate female genital mutilation and leadership development for youth.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
1 May 2005 )
Overview of the New Horizons project in Egypt. Through ten years of project activity, CEDPA/Egypt supported 365 Egyptian nongovernmental organizations and youth centers in developing and implementing innovative life skills and reproductive health non-formal education courses for youth. Program impact was enhanced by integrating these courses with a broad array of supporting interventions, including community mobilization and advocacy with local civic and religious leaders. Implemented in 21 governorates, the project provided education and training to 125,000 people. Key outcomes include: breaking the silence on sensitive issues affecting women, energizing local nongovernmental organizations and activating youth as community assets.
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Research Report (
4 December 2006 )
 In Africa, research has shown that adolescents learn about sex and reproductive health through their friends and the media, but they would prefer to receive the information from their parents. In 2005, the Population Council’s FRONTIERS in Reproductive Health Program, in collaboration with the Centre for Development and Population Activities, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Youth in Senegal, conducted a research project aimed at improving parent-child communication about reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. The study was designed to focus on parents/guardians and adolescent youth living in urban and rural Senegal and gain better understanding of interventions designed specifically to reduce risks to adolescent reproductive health. (This final report is written in both English and French.)
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
13 November 2007 )
 Nearly three billion people under the age of 25—the largest generation of youth ever—live in developing countries and face tremendous barriers in realizing their full worth and value. Over the past two decades, the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) has reached hundreds of thousands of youth to equip them with specific skills, knowledge, and attitudes to be able to exercise informed decision-making regarding their futures. Formal assessments have found that young people who have completed CEDPA’s youth development programs go on to achieve a higher level of education; demonstrate greater HIV/AIDS awareness; show greater ability to make decisions about marriage, spending income, and education; earn and save more; and travel more outside of their villages . Youth have expressed new-found confidence and skills by starting their own businesses, running local youth centers in their villages, and becoming advocates of women’s rights within their governments.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
17 March 2006 )
This two-page fact sheet describes CEDPA’s Towards New Horizons and New Visions programs in Egypt. New Horizons, an innovative, non-formal education programs for girls, was developed to reach the underserved population of girls and young women who had limited access to education, little knowledge of reproductive health, few life skills to make healthy choices for themselves and their families, and limited options to fully develop their own abilities and shape their futures. The New Visions program for boys was added to increase gender sensitivity and reproductive health knowledge of young men and to encourage the development of important life skills. The project’s initial focus on individual change evolved over time to a broader emphasis on organizational and, ultimately, community change. The program was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1994-2004, and during this time it was implemented in 21 governorates and provided education and training to 125,000. Work continues through CEDPA’s local partners and with support from foundations and other organizations.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
1 May 2005 )
CEDPA/Egypt’s New Horizons program seeks to empower disadvantaged young women to make informed life choices. Nearly 77,000 girls and young women completed the program during 1999–2004. Implemented by 365 nongovernmental organizations and youth centers in 21 of Egypt’s 26 governorates, the program has changed the perspective of beneficiaries and their parents toward gender roles, education and health.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
1 May 2005 )
CEDPA/Egypt’s New Visions program, which has been implemented by 216 nongovernmental organizations in 11 governorates, teaches boys important life skills and seeks to increase their gender sensitivity. Course participants reported improved coping skills, greater self-confidence, greater knowledge of reproductive health issues and more equitable views regarding gender norms.
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Special Booklet (
1 September 2003 )
 Nos crecen las alas es un esfuerzo de mujeres guatemaltecas de diferentes edades, grupos étnicos, nivel educativo, organizaciones y zonas geográficas del país, que acompañadas por el CEDPA dan vida al proyecto Alfabetización en Pro del Liderazgo de la Mujer.
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Research Report (
30 March 2006 )
 Through the New Visions program, CEDPA/Egypt has reached more than 17,000 boys over the past decade to increase literacy, build basic life skills, improve knowledge of reproductive health, and promote gender sensitivity so that boys gain communications skills and become more equal partners in family life. “Promoting Gender Sensitivity among Boys in Egypt” shows how the education program significantly improved boys’ knowledge about family planning and HIV/AIDS and demonstrates how boys developed better stress coping mechanisms and improved environmental-friendly behaviors.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
26 September 2007 )
Adolescent girls in Nepal face enormous barriers to achieving their social, economic and health needs and rights. Twenty-one percent of those ages 15-19 are already mothers or pregnant with their first child, according to the 2001 Demographic and Health Survey. One out of every two women believes that her husband has the final say in her health care. And, almost two-thirds of Nepali women are illiterate. Further, menstrual taboos that are deeply rooted in the culture of some castes prohibit women and girls from fully participating in daily life and inhibit their education. Putting Learning into Action, implemented from April 2006 to February 2007 by the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) and its partners, enabled adolescent girls and young women in Nepal to become agents of change to improve their reproductive health and the lives of other girls in their communities.
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Briefs & Fact Sheets (
14 October 2008 )
 According to an integrated report by UNICEF/UNESCO, worldwide some 115 million primary school-aged children are estimated to be out of school. Of the total, 53 percent (61.6 million) are girls. Primary school enrolment rates for girls in eastern and southern Africa are reported at 62 percent. Through its pilot project, Towards a Better Future, the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) is working to improve the educational and health outcomes of young girls in southern Africa by providing them with the knowledge and skills they need to stay in school. The pilot program is designed around CEDPA’s successful youth development framework, the Better Life Options and Opportunities Model (BLOOM).
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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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Special Booklet (
17 March 2011 )
 While more children in Nigeria have enrolled in primary school recently, many are dropping out before completing their education. According to UNICEF, just 54 percent of students in primary school continue on to secondary school. This holds true for Akwa Ibom State in the delta region, where CEDPA and four local partners teamed up to empower more than 1,400 adolescent girls and boys to make better life choices. The Better Life Options Program, funded by the ExxonMobil Foundation, engaged community members, parents, school officials and village leaders to support these adolescents, who improved their knowledge about reproductive health, gender, civic participation and goal-setting through the program’s life skills classes. Of those who completed the program, 50 percent enrolled or re-enrolled in formal school and others went on to obtain vocational training. Meet some of the program beneficiaries, supporters, facilitators and implementing partners.
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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 (
1 January 2002 )
 CEDPA/Nepal and Aamaa Milan Kendra, a Nepali non-governmental organization, started the Adolescent Girls Groups Anti-Trafficking Project to increase the ability of girls to resist trafficking attempts. The project focuses on training girls to increase their awareness of trafficking and protect themselves. The endline survey found an increase in the level of awareness of trafficking and characteristics of possible traffickers.
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Project Report (
1 January 2002 )
CEDPA's global Better Life Options Program was established to promote opportunities for girls and young women to make better life choices concerning their health, economic status, civic participation, education, employment, decision making abilities and family planning. The need for a similar empowerment program for adolescent boys, to effectively challenge gender inequalities, was expressed by the communities and by the boys themselves in the areas that Better Life Options Program was implemented. This booklet describes how this program was developed in India, the implementation process used and the impact felt within the participating communities.
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Research Report (
1 January 2001 )
 This report comprises an overview of the South Africa YMCA Adolescent Reproductive Health Program, as well as key evaluation findings, a detailed narrative of the evaluation methodology, the achievements and challenges, and future directions of the program. CEDPA provided support to the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) of to implement adolescent reproductive health programs in Gauteng/North West, Kwa Zulu Natal, Western Cape and
Eastern Cape provinces. This was the first national program to be implemented by the YMCA in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Project Report (
9 March 2012 )
 Despite being a signatory of the Millennium Development Goals, Swaziland still struggles in achieving results related to social development outcomes. According to the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) Human Development Index, Swaziland ranks 140 out of 187 countries. With a life expectancy of less than 49 years of age, an estimated adult HIV/AIDS prevalence rate (ages 15-49) hovering around 26 percent and net secondary school enrollment ratios for boys and girls corresponding to 31 and 26 percent respectively, Swaziland’s youth face formidable challenges in attaining success during their adult lives.
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Project Report (
5 May 2011 )
 Across the globe, adolescent boys have a higher risk of dying prematurely than their female counterparts – in some places several times higher. In sub-Saharan Africa, the number of Disability Adjusted Years of Life (DALYs) lost for adolescent boys due to violence and suicide is twice as high as those in south Asia and ten times the amount of adolescent boys in the Middle East and north Africa. The leading causes of death for males are frequently related to their upbringing and lifestyles – the kinds of social and health behaviors adopted primarily during adolescence.
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Research Report (
27 October 2009 )
 In 2006, CEDPA was invited by the government of India to provide the technical assistance and develop systems to effectively implement and monitor the Adolescent Education Program, a key initiative of the government to reach out to young people through a school-based program across the country. The health policy of the state of Jharkhand requires that “family life education” be introduced at appropriate levels in schools and colleges. Jharkhand government initiated a “School AIDS Education Program” (SAEP) through the Jharkhand State AIDS Control Society (JSACS) in June 2003. Recently, CEDPA presented this poster describing the program at the fifth Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights.
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Special Booklet (
17 March 2008 )
 AIDS has taken a devastating toll on families and communities worldwide. But in every corner of the world, effective strategies are within reach to turn the tide against the epidemic. Meet six remarkable women who, through education and empowerment, have become a powerful force in the fight against AIDS. These inspiring women participated in the Advancing Women's Leadership and Advocacy for AIDS Action workshop, an initiative that equips and empowers a growing cadre of women worldwide with the knowledge and skills to advance the global response to AIDS.
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