Program areas at PRB
International programs: momentum knowledge accelerator (mka) which provides knowledge management and adaptive learning guidance across all momentum projects so implementing partners and affiliated usaid staff can share experiences from their diverse partnership work and lessons learned. Mka calalyzes improvements in maternal, newborn and child healh programs by ensuring the right information reaches the right people in the right formats to inform decisions that save lives and reduce illness and disability. Prb's usaid funded policy advocacy and communication enhanced for Population and reproductive health (pace) project provides support to local organizations that are seeking to advance voluntary family planning and Population, health, and environment (phe) programs. The pace project's kenya budget advocacy drives adoption of family planning line item and increases in samburu county's health budget allocations. Nigerian youth advocates trained by pace secured policy commitments from local leaders by creating videos focused on ending child marriage and increasing access to family planning services. Prb provides leadership on strategic communications and research utilization to researchers in more than 10 countries.
Communications programs: prb's 2022 world Population data sheet took a special focus on demographic impacts of covid-19. The covid-19 pandemic caused nearly 15 million excess deaths in 2020 and 2021, accounting for 12% of all deaths globally and contributing to declines in life expectancy in some countries, including the united states.
U.s. programs: the kidsdata program tracks more than 900 indicators including safety, health, education, and economic security of children and youth. This information helps policymakers, public agencies, and advocacy and nonprofit organizations effectively tackle the toughest issues impacting California's children and communities. Prb staff are regularly invited to present, facilitate, and share their expertise at events like the american community survey data users conference, where prb partnered with the u.s. census Bureau to organize the event and hosted nearly 500 people. Prb staff continued to provide feedback on the design and measurement of the kids count index and compiled data for the 2022 kids count data book, produced annually by the annie e. casey foundation. Prb developed a series of social media videos on rainfall, pollution, and migration to raise awareness of findings from research supported by the eunice kennedy shriver national institute of child health and human development.