PSN supports innovative community-based projects which serve as good practice models demonstrating the wide-spread benefits of investment in voluntary family planning programmes.
These succesful projects which take integrated approaches to health and conservation issues have potential for wider-replication and provide a useful advocacy tool for advancing integrated, population, health and environment approaches.
PSN believes that environmental sustainability depends, in part, on making it possible for communities and couples in environmentally fragile locations to have the ability to manage the size of their families as they wish.
PSN works with and provides support to projects that demonstrate the linkage between environmental sustainability and family planning.
The projects we are currently working with is the Blue Ventures Population, Health and Environment Project in Madagascar and the Nomadic Communities Trust / Community Health Africa Trust in Northern Kenya.
PSN is supporting an innovative project which has been set up by Blue Ventures, a UK based award winning marine conservation organization, which is working towards creating a community-led sustainable development project in Andavadoaka, a coastal village in Madagascar.
Population and Sustainability Network are supporting a broad-based healthcare clinic run by the Nomadic Communities Trust (NCT) and Community Health Africa Trust (CHAT).
KZN is one of the regions of South Africa most seriously affected by HIV/AIDS. In a project which combined information about reproductive health and HIV/AIDS counselling, communities were assisted in exploring the issues around reproductive health and AIDS, and Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) was initiated.