The Packard Foundation’s Ethiopia Population Sub-program: an evaluation report for the period 1998-2007

The Packard Foundation’s Ethiopia Population Sub-program: an evaluation report for the period 1998-2007

Published Jan 2009

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The Population Program of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation invests in pioneering organisations and individuals that strive to give women and their families the ability to decide the number of children to have and when to have them, and to receive proper medical attention when they do. 

Ethiopia is one of the five countries of the developing world, where the Foundation’s country-level grant making is concentrated. The other four countries are India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the Philippines.

The Ethiopian Population Sub-program was established in 1998 to increase access to quality family planning and reproductive health services, especially among young people. The Foundation is among the major international organisations that provided technical and funding support for the population, family planning and reproductive health (FP&RH) programmes of the Ethiopian Government.

This report is part of the current review of the sub-programme’s overall strategy to assess the effectiveness of grants and investments in achieving programme objectives.

The sub-program’s grant-making areas in Ethiopia fall under three broad strategies:

  • expanding family planning and reproductive health (FP&RH) service delivery
  • improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH)
  • creating an enabling environment for family planning and reproductive health

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