Overview
The Council began working in Liberia in 2008. Current Council research focuses on empowering adolescent girls and developing strategies for increasing access to sexual and reproductive health services for vulnerable girls. Past work includes identifying strategies to increase both male and female condom use.
Highlights of past and present work
- Increasing the knowledge base and capacity-building strategies to ensure access of marginalized young people to an essential package of sexual and reproductive health services.
- Nurturing the capacity to do targeted and focused investments and work with adolescent girls in poverty.
- Developing programs that reach the least-advantaged girls: girls at risk of child marriage, married girls, girls at risk of sexual coercion, poor girls under pressure to exchange sex for gifts of money, girls in exploitative work conditions, and younger girls out of school, especially those living apart from one or both parents.
- Identified strategies for re-integrating both the female and male condom into the national reproductive health and HIV and AIDS programs.
Banner photo: © Beryl Goldberg
Projects
Adolescent Policy Analysis, Capacity Building, and Advocacy Project (more)
This project is designed to provide decision-makers, NGOs, youth advocates, UN country representatives, and members of government ministries with the appropriate knowledge and tools to effectively make the case for implementing policies and programs that are evidence-based and targeted at vulnerable subgroups of young people, in particular girls.
(1/2008 - ongoing)
Population policy and demographic analysis
Developing Capacity for Targeted, Evidence-based Programming and Asset Building for Adolescent Girls (more)
The Council is helping to build the capacity of NGOs, UN country teams, and government agencies to develop effective health, social, and economic asset-building programs for adolescent girls.
(1/2008 - ongoing)
Financial literacy/livelihoods; Scaling up interventions; Schooling; Social isolation/support
Comprehensive Condom Programming in West Africa (more)
This Council project identified strategies for re-integrating the female and male condom in the national reproductive health and HIV and AIDS programs of Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Mauritania, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.
(1/2008 - 12/2008)
Access to contraceptive methods; Condoms (male and female); Scaling up interventions
Resources
Overview of girls in Liberia: Finding and planning for 'your girls' (PDF)presentation at "Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls Project: Institutional Strengthening Workshop," Monrovia, Liberia, 13-15 July
Bruce,Judith
Publication date: 2009
The adolescent experience in-depth: Using data to identify and reach the most vulnerable young people--Liberia 2007 (PDF) (HTML)
Publication date: 2009
National strategic plan for comprehensive condom programming in Liberia, 2009-2013
Diop,Nafissatou J.; Saydee,Geetor; Taylor,Nyakpu
Publication date: 2008
Situation analysis of condoms in Liberia
Diop,Nafissatou J.; Saydee,Geetor; Taylor,Nyakpu
Publication date: 2008
Liberia Fast Facts
| Population (millions) | 4.0 |
|---|---|
| Total fertility rate | 5.8 |
| Infant deaths per 1,000 live births | 99 |
| Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births | 1200 |
| Girls aged 20-24 married by age 18 (%) | 40 |
| HIV/AIDS prevalence (%) | 1.7 |
| Living below US $2 per day (%) | 95 |
What's New
- The Interagency Gender Working Group has published a new synthesis of evidence of the effect of equitable gender initiatives on reproductive health outcomes. All three of the Population Council’s research programs are featured in this volume entitled Gender Perspectives Improve Reproductive Health Outcomes: New Evidence. "We are proud of the Council's contribution to this and other evidence bases linked to improved reproductive health results," says John Townsend, director of the Council's Reproductive Health program. (offsite link)
- New project: Developing Capacity for Targeted, Evidence-based Programming and Asset Building for Adolescent Girls (more)
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