WORKING PAPER WORKING Engendering Evidence-Based Policy for Young People’s Reproductive Health in India November 2019 PAPER WORKING Engendering Evidence-Based Policy for Young People’s Reproductive Health in India Sunita Nigam, MSc Avantika Singh, MBA Vishakha Singh, MSc November 2019 MEASURE Evaluation This publication was produced with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the terms of MEASURE Evaluation cooperative agreement 123 West Franklin Street, Suite 330 AID-OAA-L-14-00004. MEASURE Evaluation is implemented by Chapel Hill, NC 27516 USA the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partnership with ICF International; John Snow, Phone: +1 919-445-9350 Inc.; Management Sciences for Health; Palladium; and Tulane
[email protected] University. Views expressed are not necessarily those of USAID www.measureevaluation.org or the United States government. WP-19-234 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The project team acknowledges the financial and technical support of MEASURE Evaluation under its small grants program, funded by the United States Agency for International Development. The authors thank their parent institutions for providing the necessary institutional support for carrying out this research: Sunita Nigum thanks the Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur, India; Avantika Singh thanks Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India; and Vishakha Singh thanks Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology, Udaipur, India. We are grateful to all of the study’s respondents who took time to respond to the questionnaires: policymakers, policy implementers, and key informants from government departments, schools, hospitals, and nongovernmental organizations. We thank the chief medical and health officer for Rajsamand District (Rajasthan) and the chief medical officer for Hathras District (Uttar Pradesh) for providing necessary permissions and facilitating the study.