Institute of Development Studies

Realising Rights Research Programme Consortium

'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.

Visit the Realising Rights website

• IDS key contact: Hilary Standing
• Project dates: September 2005 - August 2010
• Project status: Open
• Funder: Department for International Development (DFID)

Researchers

• Hilary Standing
• Jerker Edstrom

Partner Organisations

• African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)
• BRAC - Bangladesh
• EngenderHealth
• INDEPTH Network
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)