Family planning and resilience: associations found in a Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) project in Western Tanzania
This article explores the links between family planning and reproductive health and resilience.
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This article explores the links between family planning and reproductive health and resilience. While research indicates that integrating family planning and improved reproductive health care into sectors known to contribute to resilience, such as natural resources management, livelihoods, food security, nutrition, and water resources, could further increase that resilience, establishing and measuring the pathways through which resilience is enhanced and the links, if any, among various sectors, is a challenge.
This paper identifies components of resilience that could be measured in population, health, and environment and other integrated development projects, and uses data from a PHE project in western Tanzania to measure resilience and better understand the links between resilience and family planning. The research aims to establish which factors contribute to resilience in the project area, with the ultimate goal of understanding how to build potential resilience among people in ecologically rich regions who rely on natural resources for their livelihoods.