Throughout the Reproductive Life Course: Opportunities & Challenges

forEmpowering Girls & Women

Meeting Goals & ObjectivesGoals:1. Disseminate knowledge and identify gaps about

effective approaches for empowered decision-making throughout the reproductive life course; and

2. Explore the use of these findings to strengthen programs, and stimulate new interventions and research opportunities.

Themes:• Youth• Using Family Planning to Prevent High-Risk

Pregnancies• Community-Based Services• Family Planning Integration with Health Services• Multisectoral Family Planning Links with Non-

Health Activities• Integration of Empowerment or Motivational

Components

*Diagram developed by the USAID-funded Evidence to Action (E2A) Project

Day 1, morning – 3 sessions in Chinese roomDay 1, afternoon – 2 concurrent sessions; Chinese and Virginia rooms

Day 2, morning – 3 sessions in Chinese roomDay 2, afternoon – 1 concurrent session; Chinese and Virginia rooms

All sessions will allow adequate time for Q&A and interactive discussion

Agenda

Evaluation forms- How interesting, cutting-edge, informative and

compelling were the sessions?- How was the organization of the meeting?

Intellectual Property Presenters, if you have not yet done so already, please sign an intellectual property form.

Evaluation & IP Forms

Day 2: Afternoon Group work brings up participants’ experience; summary will be included in the meeting report. We will:• Learn from each other (Pearls, Best Practices) • Identify research gaps to guide stakeholders

and planners• Provide programmatic recommendations for

USAID, HRSA and other partners

Group Work

Many thanks to everyone who made this meeting possible!

-USAID-HRSA

- MCHIP- E2A

- Authors-Presenters-Moderators

-Coordinators- Participants