Programmatic Interventions in Reproductive Health Involving Men or Couples

Virtual meeting, 10 November 2020

Organizing committee: Stan Becker (Johns Hopkins University) and Neetu John (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health).

This working session was organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Couples' Reproductive Health and Fertility. The Panel had organized a prior meeting on "Research and Programs on Couples and Reproductive Health" on May 5th, 2020 and there was interest in having a second session specifically on family planning interventions involving men and couples.  A call for abstracts was disseminated and five presentations were selected:  two of these presentations are reviews of the literature and three are intervention studies from Africa and Asia. 

In the future, the Panel plans to organize a debate on the usefulness (or not) of family planning programs allocating funds for efforts to involve men and/or husbands.

•  The video recording of the session and the presentations files are available below.

Presentations: 

• Karen Hardee (What Works Association, United States)
  -  A Long Way to Go: An Analysis of the Proposed Engagement of Men and Boys in 13 Family Planning Country Implementation and Action Plans
  
  
• Aishwarya Sahay (International Center for Research on Women, India)
  -  Engaging Young Men and Couples in Family Planning Programs through a Gender Transformative Approach
  
  
• Anita Raj (University of California, San Diego, United States)
  -  The CHARM2 Intervention (Counseling Husbands & Wives to Achieve Reproductive Health and Marital Equity)
  
  
• Anne Laterra (CARE USA)
  -  Engaging Husbands of Married Adolescents in Bangladesh and Niger: Formative Research and Programmatic Experience from the IMAGINE project
  
  
• Kexin Zhang (Boston University, United States)
  -  Exploring User-Centered Counseling in Contraceptive Decision-Making: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Urban Malawi

Meeting chat:

• Chat file

IUSSP Scientific Panel on Couples' Reproductive Health and Fertility:

Chair: Stan Becker (Johns Hopkins University)

Members: Vissého Adjiwanou (Université du Québec à Montréal); Ambrose Akinlo (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife); Neetu John (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health); Trude Lappegard (University of Oslo); Maria-Coleta Oliveira (Universidade Estadual de Campinas); Abhishek Singh (International Institute for Population Sciences)