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PRB works to ensure that policymakers in developing countries and in the United States rely on sound evidence, rather than anecdotal or outdated information, when creating population, health, and environmental policies. </p></li></ul> <p> <h2>PRB's Core Themes and Strategic Approaches</h2> <p>We focus our work around four "core themes": Reproductive Health and Fertility; Children and Families; Population and the Environment; and Population Futures—Aging, Inequality and Poverty, Migration and Urbanization, and Gender.  We also emphasize two Strategic Approaches: Building Coalitions and Mobilizing Civil Society. </p> <ul class="biblio"> <li><img src="/web/20091010030857im_/http://www.prb.org/images2/bullet-arrow.gif"> <a href="/web/20091010030857/http://www.prb.org/en/About/RH.aspx"><font color="#0000ff">Reproductive Health and Fertility</font> </a></li> <li><img src="/web/20091010030857im_/http://www.prb.org/images2/bullet-arrow.gif"> <a href="/web/20091010030857/http://www.prb.org/en/About/Children.aspx"><font color="#0000ff">Children & Families</font> </a></li> <li><img src="/web/20091010030857im_/http://www.prb.org/images2/bullet-arrow.gif"> <a href="/web/20091010030857/http://www.prb.org/en/About/InternationalPrograms/Projects-Programs/PHE.aspx"><font color="#0000ff">Population and the Environment</font> </a></li> <li><img src="/web/20091010030857im_/http://www.prb.org/images2/bullet-arrow.gif"> <a href="/web/20091010030857/http://www.prb.org/en/About/Futures.aspx"><font color="#0000ff">Population Futures</font> </a></li> <li><img src="/web/20091010030857im_/http://www.prb.org/images2/bullet-arrow.gif"> <a href="/web/20091010030857/http://www.prb.org/en/About/StrategicApp.aspx"><font color="#0000ff">Strategic Approaches</font> </a></li></ul> <p>PRB's work is funded by private foundations, government agencies, and individual donors, and we frequently collaborate with other nonprofit organizations and universities. 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