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Family Planning Workshops for West African Journalists</a></h3> <p><small>Wednesday, April 29th, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?cat=12" title="View all posts in Reproductive Health" rel="category">Reproductive Health</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=60#respond" title="Comment on PRB in the Field: Family Planning Workshops for West African Journalists">No Comments »</a></p> by Victoria Ebin, news media coordinator PRB is carrying out three workshops on family planning for West African journalists between January and June of this year. The first workshop, held in ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=60" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to PRB in the Field: Family Planning Workshops for West African Journalists">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-58"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=58" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 4">PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 4</a></h3> <p><small>Friday, April 24th, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?cat=12" title="View all posts in Reproductive Health" rel="category">Reproductive Health</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=58#respond" title="Comment on PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 4">No Comments »</a></p> by Chinyere Fred-Adegbulugbe, senior correspondent, The Punch, Lagos, Nigeria and member of PRB's Women's Edition The Women’s Edition training continued on Thursday with a field to a Marie Stopes centre in ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=58" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 4">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-57"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=57" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Is the Gold Standard for Impact Evaluation Fool’s Gold?">Is the Gold Standard for Impact Evaluation Fool’s Gold?</a></h3> <p><small>Thursday, April 23rd, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=57#respond" title="Comment on Is the Gold Standard for Impact Evaluation Fool’s Gold?">No Comments »</a></p> by Charlie Teller, Bixby visiting scholar (Read Bill Butz's previous post on Gold Standard Evaluation here) The international conference, “Perspectives on Impact Evaluation: Approaches to Assessing Development Effectiveness” was held in Cairo ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=57" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Is the Gold Standard for Impact Evaluation Fool’s Gold?">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-56"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=56" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 3 - What is Behind Not Using Condoms">PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 3 - What is Behind Not Using Condoms</a></h3> <p><small>Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?cat=12" title="View all posts in Reproductive Health" rel="category">Reproductive Health</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=56#respond" title="Comment on PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 3 - What is Behind Not Using Condoms">No Comments »</a></p> by Ana Alpirez, editor-in-chief of el Periodico de Guatemala, and member of PRB’s Women’s Edition program. Today I met Theresia, a teenage mother of a six-week old baby. She dropped out of school ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=56" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 3 - What is Behind Not Using Condoms">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-55"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=55" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 2">PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 2</a></h3> <p><small>Tuesday, April 21st, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?cat=12" title="View all posts in Reproductive Health" rel="category">Reproductive Health</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=55#respond" title="Comment on PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 2">No Comments »</a></p> by Thato Ratsebe, PRB consultant Women’s Edition continued its second day of family planning and reproductive health training in Nairobi, Kenya by visiting the Population Council and Family Health International (FHI), ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=55" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 2">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-54"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=54" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 1">PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 1</a></h3> <p><small>Monday, April 20th, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?cat=12" title="View all posts in Reproductive Health" rel="category">Reproductive Health</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=54#respond" title="Comment on PRB in the Field: Women’s Edition Training in Kenya, Day 1">No Comments »</a></p> by Florence Machio, a Kenyan freelance journalist and PRB consultant There is an African proverb that says "if you want what is underneath, you have to bend." 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Sharma, PRB's consultant in India, for providing the data for this post and checking it for accuracy) With the 2010 U.S. Census, used to ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=52" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Censuses and Political Representation in India and the United States">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-51"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=51" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Transforming Traditional Male Norms: A “Gateway” to Democracy">Transforming Traditional Male Norms: A “Gateway” to Democracy</a></h3> <p><small>Thursday, April 9th, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?cat=5" title="View all posts in Gender" rel="category">Gender</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=51#comments" title="Comment on Transforming Traditional Male Norms: A “Gateway” to Democracy">3 Comments »</a></p> by Karin Ringheim, senior policy analyst If “gender” is the social construction of what it means to be male or female, and “gender equity” connotes fairness and justice in the distribution of ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://prbblog.org/?p=51" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Transforming Traditional Male Norms: A “Gateway” to Democracy">Read more..</a> <br/><br/> <div class="alignleft"></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div></div> </td></tr></table></center>  <br/><br/> <div align="center"> <div align="center" id="ftr"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747im_/http://www.prb.org/images/footer2.gif" width="3" height="23" align="right"/><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747im_/http://www.prb.org/images/footer1.gif" width="3" height="23" align="left"/><span class="footertext">Services: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://www.prb.org/Home/EmailSignup.aspx">Get E-Mail News</a>  ·  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://www.prb.org/Join.aspx">Join/Renew Membership</a>  ·  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://www.prb.org/Donate.aspx">Donate</a>  ·  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://www.prb.org/Bookstore.aspx">Bookstore</a>  ·  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://www.prb.org/Home/Contact.aspx">Contact</a>  ·  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://www.prb.org/SpanishContent.aspx">Español</a>  ·  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://www.prb.org/FrenchContent.aspx">Français</a></span></div> <span class="footer2text"><b>Copyright 2007, Population Reference Bureau.</b> All rights reserved. • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/http://www.prb.org/Home/Privacy.aspx">Privacy Policy</a></span><br/> <span class="footer2text">1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW • Suite 520 • Washington, DC 20009-5728 • USA <br/> <b>Phone:</b> 800-877-9881 • <b>Fax:</b> 202-328-3937 • <b>E-mail:</b> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919034747/mailto:popref@prb.org">popref@prb.org</a></span><br/> </div>  </div>  <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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