http://http://dspace.icddrb.org:80/jspui/handle/123456789/21 2026-04-12T10:27:38Z http://http://dspace.icddrb.org:80/jspui/handle/123456789/11888 Title: Postpartum Family Planning in Bangladesh: A Situation Analysis and Way Forward Authors: Sharad, Barkataki; Fauzia, Huda; Quamrun, Nahar; Mizanur, Rahman Abstract: We thank the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for its support of this work. We would like to thank several individuals who made important contributions to this report. We would like to thank Dr. Shams El Arifeen from icddr,b, who provided support and guidance throughout the process of researching and writing this report. We must also thank Ms. Tasnova Wahed and Dr. Hassan Rushekh Mahmood of icddr,b, who provided important research assistance and helped to identify many of the documents and articles cited in this report. We thank Dr. Sian Curtis for her guidance provided to the Bangladesh MEASURE Evaluation team involved in this work. We would like to thank Dr. Md. Moinuddin Ahmed, Line Director – CCSDP, Dr. Nurun Nahar Begum Deputy Director – CCSDP, Mr. Pranab Kumar Neogi, Line Director FSD – FPP, Mr. Md. Mahbub-Ul-Alam, Program Manager (Quality Assurance) – FSD-FPP, who all provided their valuable time to meet with the researchers. In so doing, they provided important insights, ideas, and documents on the postpartum family planning program in Bangladesh. We would like to thank Dr. Abu-Jamil M. Faisal, EngenderHealth, and Dr. Mizanur Rahman, EngenderHealth who sat with the researchers, provided their insights and experiences of working on PPFP in Bangladesh, and identified important documents for the researchers’ further reading. Dr. Faisal also helped to review the early draft versions of this report, providing important insights into the history of the PPFP program and its current status. Finally, we are grateful to the USAID/Bangladesh team members who reviewed this report and provided important insights and documents. In particular, we would like to thank Dr. Kanta Jamil, Dr. Samina Chowdhury, Ms. Brenda Doe, and Mr. Azmal Hossain for the time they took to review the report, the additional documents that they were able to identify for this report, and their suggestions and guidance on the PPFP program in Bangladesh. 2025-09-29T00:00:00Z http://http://dspace.icddrb.org:80/jspui/handle/123456789/11891 Title: Understanding Unintended Pregnancy in Bangladesh: Country Profile Report Authors: Fauzia Akhter, Huda; Sabiha, Chowdhuri; Yolande, Robertson; Noushin, Islam; Bidhan Krishna, Sarker; Ashrafi Jahan, Azmi; Laura, Reichenbach Abstract: We acknowledge support from the STEP UP (Strengthening Evidence for Programming on Unintended Pregnancy) Research Programme Consortium. STEP UP was funded by UKaid from the Department for International Development (DFID), grant number SR1111D-6. icddr,b acknowledges with gratitude the commitment of UKaid to its research efforts. The authors would like to express their gratitude to all of the participants at the National Task Force meeting held on September 20, 2012 and stakeholders‘ consultation held from June 22-23, 2013 for their valuable input and recommendations, particularly senior government officials from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the Directorate General of Family Planning (DGFP). The authors would also like to thank Partners in Population and Development (PPD) for their role in engaging government officials in the full process of the study and their extensive and continued support in disseminating the report and uptake of the findings at the national level. 2025-09-29T00:00:00Z http://http://dspace.icddrb.org:80/jspui/handle/123456789/11890 Title: Prevalence of unintended pregnancy and needs for family planning among married adolescent girls living in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh Authors: Fauzia Akhter, Huda; Sabiha, Chowdhuri; Bidhan Krishna, Sarker; Noushin, Islam; Anisuddin, Ahmed Abstract: We acknowledge support from the STEP UP (Strengthening Evidence for Programming on Unintended Pregnancy) Research Programme Consortium. STEP UP was funded by UKaid from the Department for International Development (DFID), grant number SR1111D-6. The authors are indebted to STEP UP partners, Population Council, Kenya, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) Kenya, and Population Council, Ghana, who offered their invaluable advice during the data analysis workshop in Mombasa, Kenya during February 17-21, 2014. The authors are especially grateful to Dr. Harriet Birungi, Dr. Francis Onyango and Dr. Ian Askew of the Population Council, Kenya for their guidance throughout the development of this report. 2025-09-29T00:00:00Z http://http://dspace.icddrb.org:80/jspui/handle/123456789/5862 Title: Health and demographic Surveillance system – matlab Volume Forty Six Registration of Health and Demographic Events 2012 Authors: Rahman, Md. Mahfuzur; Alam, Nurul; Razzaque, Abdur; Streatfield, Peter Kim Abstract: The activity of Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance System was funded by core donors which provide unrestricted support to icddr,b for its operations and research. Current donors providing unrestricted support include: Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh; Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the Department for International Development, UK (DFID). We gratefully acknowledge these donors for their support and commitment to icddr,b's research efforts. 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z