Susan Rich has been involved with the CCP-led Nigeria Urban Reproductive Health Initiative since it began 10 years ago. In this Q&A, she reflects on a decade of NURHI as it comes to an end.
CCP talks to Rodio Diallo of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who manages the Foundation’s family planning portfolio in Nigeria, about the successes and sustainability of the work of the NURHI project, which ends this year.
“Ten years ago, we set off to make family planning a social norm in Nigeria,” says Susan Krenn, CCP’s executive director. “Not only have we achieved that hand-in-hand with our government partners, we celebrate the end of NURHI knowing that what we have started will continue on.”
Fitri Putjuk, the longtime country representative for CCP in Indonesia, won the Staff Practice Award for Excellence in International Public Health Practice from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Allowing recent successes in access and uptake of modern family planning to falter during the COVID-19 pandemic could have serious long-term consequences, says CCP’s Joanna Skinner.
Through the CCP-led program Merci Mon Héros (which means “thank you, my hero” in French), young people in Africa are producing videos that thank their parents, friends and others who helped them through reproductive health challenges.
Providing an opportunity for young people to publicly share their personal stories about family planning can help elevate their visibility, motivate them and instill confidence and pride in their work, according to a small new CCP study.
CCP’s Knowledge SUCCESS project reflects on 10 defining achievements that have shaped family planning programs and services over the past decade.
In the 10 states Nigerian where The Challenge Initiative is active, more than half a million women have adopted modern contraception in the program’s first three years. CCP leads the program in Nigeria.
We look back at some of the top stories we told about CCP in 2019, and look forward to sharing more of CCP’s great work in the new year.
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