At least 200 million women around the world want to delay, space, or limit childbearing, but are unable to do so because they lack knowledge of and access to reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) services. Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Extending Service Delivery (ESD) Project works to make these services accessible to the underserved populations of the world.

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Ethiopan Women Embrace New Options for Having Less Children 

ESD helps bring long-acting family planning to Ethiopia's Bale Zone.

Badiriya Umer was recently offered an alternative many women in Ethiopia never have—with one visit to her local health provider she can stop having children for five years.

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Assessing Knowledge Attitudes and Practices of Men and Women in Pastoral Communities

ESD's recently published a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) Survey, which provides research that will be used to integrate family planning and HIV/AIDS services within a Safe Motherhood Program. The survey includes interviews with mothers groups, husbands, service providers, traditional birth attendants, as well as focus group discussion participants, and relays an overwhelming need for family planning and reproductive health services within Kenya's North Eastern Province.

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