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Local Empowerment Through Rapid Results
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2011
It was June 2005. Eight women arrived at the meeting
hall in Antananarivo, Madagascar, dressed in their Sunday best. The Ministry of Health & Family Planning had
asked these community volunteers to participate in a
full-day family planning workshop.
Over the course of the day, these eight women, all of them trained through a program funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), listened to dignitaries and met the event organizers, watched a video, and participated in team-building exercises. But most of the time was spent with their teams. At the end of the day, each team emerged with a goal and a plan to increase usage of family planning services ... Read more
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