Uttar Pradesh Cities Are Destinations for Those Wanting to Learn about Sustainable Family Planning Programs
Cities in India that no longer receive direct support from The Challenge Initiative (TCI) are gradually becoming favorite destinations for state officials that want to learn how family planning and other health services are provided in urban settings. These cities...
TCI’s Initial Impact in Seven Cities in Bihar, India, Leads to Statewide Scale Up of Best Practices
The Challenge Initiative (TCI) enables city governments to scale up high-impact family planning practices and other interventions (HIPs & HIIs) in under-resourced, marginalized urban communities across three states in India (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand). At...
TCI Supports Jharkhand City of Bokaro with Strategies to Increase Male Engagement in Family Planning
In the steel city of Bokaro in Jharkhand, India, efforts to involve men in family planning primarily focus on a procedure called no-scalpel vasectomy (NSV). In fact, the entire country holds an “NSV Fortnight” every year from November 21 to December 4 to...
TCI India Urban Tales: Nothing Stops This Gaya ANM from Providing Family Planning Counseling
The following story is part of a series from The Challenge Initiative in India called “Urban Tales,” occasional real-life stories of women and girls in India benefiting from TCI’s work supporting local governments to implement high-impact family planning and...
