Browse the Knowledge Products

Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: a Participatory Process to Translate Research into Action

• Small Grants

This project worked to tailor the findings to the needs of each target audience (alliance partners, country partners, policymakers), to be able to effectively promote changes in policies and practice. The outcomes of the additional analysis of the country case studies will help us to translate the research into action plans and into products to be used by each of the target audiences, for improved collaboration and for evidence-based advocacy.

Capacity-strengthening for national-level policy change: Europe Unite for CSE rights

• Small Grants

The aim of this project was to advocate for the implementation of CSE programs in Eastern Europe by creating a supportive environment for CSE integration in national-level policies.

Evidence-based Advocacy: Championing Sex Ed in Europe (CSE)

• Small Grants

The project focused on advocating for implementing Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) programs in Europe. Evidence shows that CSE programs improve the sexual and reproductive health and well-being of young people. Considering the current challenges worldwide in advancing the SRHR agenda, CHOICE and YouAct encourage young people to voice their needs and advocate for their rights.

Generating debate and visualising change

• Small Grants

Assessing the uptake of three visualisation tools in change processes geared to improving young people’s SRHR.

Perspectives of Pregnant Asylum-Seeking Women on Implementation of a Screening Tool for Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD

• Small Grants

Still Human

• Covid-19 Grants

This was an exploratory research project undertaken to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of transgender and hijra people in the Netherlands and Bangladesh respectively. By focusing the research on livelihoods, access to health care, housing and violence at public and private spaces, the knowledge products aims to be used as a basis for advocacy for drawing attention to trans population across the world.

Treat it Queer

• Knowledge Activation Grants

This project works to translate research into products and materials that will be used to facilitate tangible change in policy or practice. Treat it Queer educates medical students and young doctors about queer inclusive health care provision, with a focus on SRHR in the Dutch context. For this project they created two tangible tools to better support and understand queer and gender queer people within medical environments.

“Happy accident?” Couples’ reproductive decision-making and the role of gender, power and reproductive autonomy in the Netherlands.

• Small Grants

The objective of this study was to better understand couples’ reproductive decision-making processes in the Netherlands, with specific attention to the role of gender, power, and reproductive autonomy. The study aimed to create a tool that can assist couples in this decision-making process. To achieve this goal, the University of Groningen conducted dyadic in-depth interviews with 21 couples in the Netherlands.

Let's Talk Safety

• Knowledge Activation Grants

This policy brief is based on participatory co-creation sessions led by Fairspace with a diverse group of refugees and asylum seekers (A/S) who have lived or are currently residing in Dutch Asylum Centers (AZCs). This phase of the project began with recruitment and the development of training content concurrently. Subsequently, two co-creation sessions were conducted, and the policy brief was written.

Let's Talk!

• Co-Creation Conference Grants

A co-created sexual reproductive health and rights card game by youth for youth, aimed at ages around 14-24. This knowledge product includes a facilitator's guide and the card game 'Let's Talk!'.

Brave Men

• Covid-19 Grants

The overall objective of this project was to initiate an online policy dialogue on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender-based violence involving Communities of Practices from Bangladesh, Burundi, Jordan, and the Netherlands.

Access Granted

• Covid-19 Grants

This mixed-method research project assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to contraception or safe abortion services for women of reproductive age in Iran, Bangladesh, and the Netherlands. The developed knowledge products aim to inform relevant stakeholders on improving access to contraception and safe abortion during crises.