The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Family Planning, Fertility and Urban Development will oversee a 4-year IUSSP project to produce policy-relevant evidence on the effects of family planning and fertility change on urban welfare recently funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will fund fellowships to roughly 17 early-to-mid career researchers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to conduct research.
The programme aims both to build the policy-relevant evidence base on family planning and fertility outcomes in urban areas of these regions, and to provide skill-building opportunities to early-career researchers to work on issues of urban family planning. The project includes mentoring and training activities as well as funds for policy outreach at local, national and international levels. The ultimate aim of the project is to raise awareness of the contributions of family planning to sustainable cities among urban planners and policy makers and to put family planning on the urban policy agenda where it has been largely absent.
The programme will work closely with a select set of leading sub-Saharan African and South Asian institutions active in demographic and urban studies spheres. Additional funds will be made available to promote communication of findings to policy audiences at local, national and international levels. In addition to the fellowships that form the core of project, the project will support the participation of top-level specialists at important international meetings (United Nations, UN-Habitat, etc.) to draw the attention of urban policy makers to the potential value of investments in family planning services to urban development.
Final Report: Evaluation of a Research and Capacity-Building Project in Sub-Saharan Africa
This report provides an overview and evaluation of the urban FP fellowship programme, including views and experiences of the research fellows, a summary of project outputs, lessons learned, and recommendations for carrying out capacity building through multi-sectoral and multidisciplinary fellowships with a focus on training early career scholars to carry out policy-relevant research and engage with policymakers.
Workshop on Policy Engagement and Communications, at the Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP)
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 10-14 April 2023
- Report (in French)
Session at the "Lundis de l'Ined": Assessing the state of urban science in contemporary global policy debates,
Paris, France, 20 March 2023
Scientific Writing Workshop, APHRC Campus
Nairobi, Kenya 15-17 March 2023
Urban FP Panel members at the International Conference on Family Planning
Session on “Family planning meets urban development in Sub-Saharan Africa: addressing intersectoral challenges for urban health” at the 18th International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH)
Valencia, Spain, 25 October 2022
3-Panel mini-conference
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal 12-15 July 2022
9th Africities Summit, Kisumu Kenya 17-21 May 2022
Family planning is critical to urban development: what you need to know and what you can do (Part 1& 2) on 18 May: 9:00-12:00 & 14:00-17:00.
Report for the 2021 IUSSP General Assembly of Members
IPC2021 Research Leader Session 163: New Evidence on Urban Fertility and Family Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
9 December at 14:00 UTC
- Watch the recorded session at https://ipc2021.secure-platform.com/
8th African Population Conference in Entebbe, Uganda 18-22 November 2019
- Urban Family Planning session on Tuesday 19 November at the 8th African Population (includes links to video recording of the session)
- Plenary: No Urban Legend: Taking the Long-Term View on the realities of Urbanization in Africa with IUSSP Panel on Fertility, Family Planning and Urban Development. Speakers included Donatien Beguy and Tom LeGrand of the IUSSP project’s Scientific Panel, and Allan Katamba of TCI.
International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH), Xiamen, China 2-8 November 2019.
- Panel Session 1: Research and action on addressing family planning and reproductive health in urban health care systems
- Panel Session 2: Policy and governance approaches to considering family planning and fertility in urban health
- View details of session and activities
Family planning, fertility and urban welfare in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, International Conference on Family Planning, Kigali, Rwanda on 14 November 2018
Call for Research Proposals - round 2
Family Planning, Fertility and Urban Development
- Date website opens for electronic submission of proposals: 15 March 2019
- Deadline for submission of concept note: 15 April 2019
- Deadline for submission of full proposal: 1 July 2019
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