• 2009 Small Grants Competition

    to adopt a cross-learning and iterative approach that will enable all researchers to learn from each other across different types of bio-innovation throughout the region.

  • Overview of the Project

    to enhance biological innovative capabilities, policies & institutions to support just, equitable & sustainable social & economic development in developing countries.

  • Bio-innovations in the NEWS

    Policy briefs and articles on relevant dimensions of bio-innovation.

Enabling bioinnovation for poverty allevation in Asia.

Realising Rights: improving sexual and reproductive health for poor and vulnerable populations

IDS is part of the Realising Rights Research Programme Consortium, which brings together researchers from several disciplines to focus on populations in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia with the greatest access and entitlement problems in sexual and reproductive health (SRH): the very poor, young people - especially girls and young women, and other hard-to-reach groups such as migrants and those most vulnerable to stigma.

The main objectives of the programme are to:

  

  • Improve the evidence base on the high levels of SRH morbidity, mortality and unmet need among poor and vulnerable populations and communicate it to policy and advocacy audiences;

  • Find innovative ways to improve access to existing and new low cost SRH technologies and services by poor women and men;

  • Improve knowledge of how SRH rights can be translated into reality in locally appropriate and sensitive ways;

  • Build capacity to put sexual and reproductive health and rights onto national and local policy agendas.

Project dates: 1 September 2005 - 31 August 2010
Funder: UK Department for International Development
Key IDS contact: Hilary Standing

Partners

  • African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya

  • BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • EngenderHealth, New York, USA

  • INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana

  • Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Researchers

 

Visit the Realising Rights website www.realising-rights.org