Population Council Research that makes a difference

Video, Audio, and Slide Shows

• Biruh Tesfa ("Bright Future") project (video) (2009)
  Biruh Tesfa provides safe spaces for out-of-schools in urban slum areas in Ethiopia.

• Population Council in Ethiopia (video) (2009)
  Council president Peter Donaldson describes his trip to Ethiopia. He visits several Council projects and discusses the impact of the Council's work in the country.

• Balanced Counseling Strategy Plus (BCS+) (video) (2009)

  BCS+ is a toolkit for family planning service providers working in high HIV/STI prevalence settings.

• Abriendo Oportunidades ("Creating Opportunities") project (video) (video en español) (audio slide show) (audio slide show en español) (2009)
  Abriendo Oportunidades is a leadership and empowerment program in Guatemala that teaches girls life, entrepreneurial, and leadership skills, and provides information about reproductive health.

• Female genital mutilation/cutting: Interview with Maryam Sheikh Abdi (videos) (2008)

  Council staff member Maryam Sheikh Abdi talks about her personal experience with female genital mutiliation/cutting and presents field stories from her work among the Somali community of Kenya.

• The Cut: Poem by Maryam Sheikh Abdi (audio) (2008)

Council staff member Maryam Sheikh Abdi talks reads her autobiographic poem about female genital mutilation/cutting.

• Youth and family studies in Vietnam (slide show) (2007)
  Council researchers conducted a study to understand transitions to adulthood among young people in poor remote areas of northern Vietnam. The study identified areas of intervention that best address the needs of Vietnam’s most marginalized young population.

• Earthquake vulnerability assessment: Pakistan (slide show) (2006)

  Researchers in the Council's Islamabad office carried out a survey of camps for people displaced or homeless by the 2005 earthquake that devastated northern Pakistan.  

• Ni Kii Kiega ("Mama") (video) (2005)
  Kenyan singer and songwriter Eric Wainaina celebrates mothers and safe motherhood.

• Beyond the numbers (video) (2005)
  A Council-sponsored video shows how conducting maternal death reviews following the deaths of three African women—Maliun, Sahan, and Tshepang—taught practitioners lessons that they used to save the life of Josephine and her baby.

• Safe Motherhood Applied Research and Training (SMART) project (video) (2005)

  SMART aimed to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in the D.G. Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan, and to provide comprehensive analysis of the results.

• Ishraq ("Sunrise") project (video) (2003)

  Ishraq engages rural out-of-school girls in activities designed to improve their education, health, and social status by creating safe spaces in their communities in Upper Egypt.