Bridging the Gaps Sector to Sector and Research to Policy: Linking Family Planning to Urban Development

Trudy Harpham; Robert Smith; Tom LeGrand; John Cleland; James Duminy; Susan M Parnell; Judith F. Helzner; Gaye Agesa; Lynette Kamau

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Bridging the Gaps Sector to Sector and Research to Policy: Linking Family Planning to Urban Development

Trudy Harpham
, Robert Smith
, Tom LeGrand
, John Cleland
, James Duminy
, Susan M Parnell
, Judith F. Helzner
, Gaye Agesa
, Lynette Kamau

School of Geographical Sciences

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There is growing science and policy interest in multi-sectoral action, but bridging the gap between family planning and urban development is challenging. This paper analyses the experience of integrating these sectors in sub-Saharan Africa via building research capacity. Family-planning researchers were supported to link with urban-development actors, one goal being to generate lessons on the process of getting their research into the policy domain. The urban governance sector’s dynamic and complex nature was a particular challenge for family-planning researchers; in future, structured familiarisation with a sector might facilitate multi-sectoral action and better enable researchers to link with the policy world.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	794-804
Number of pages	11
Journal	Development in Practice
Volume	31
Issue number	6
Early online date	25 Aug 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2021.1937560
Publication status	Published - 2021

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This programme is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. For more information, see: https://iussp.org/en/urbanfp and https://iussp.org/en/bmgf-award-iussp-project-urban-family-planning .

Funding Information:
The research was funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population: Grant OPP1179495 (2018-2022). We thank the IUSSP Fellows who kindly let us quote their feedback.

Funding Information:
The research was funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population: Grant OPP1179495 (2018-2022). We thank the IUSSP Fellows who kindly let us quote their feedback. The research was funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population: Grant OPP1179495 (2018-2022). We thank the IUSSP Fellows who kindly let us quote their feedback.

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© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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