USAID/Jordan's Family Planning Assessment Final Report  

Between October 2015 and March 2016, the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) at
Georgetown University conducted an assessment of USAID/Jordan’s family planning
contributions. The assessment explored reasons for fertility stagnation in Jordan over the last
decade. To tell the backstory of USAID programming in family planning, the IRH team
conducted an extensive desk review of over 83 documents and 69 key informant interviews
with 168 participants both in Jordan and Washington, D.C.
The assessment findings show that USAID’s contributions in increasing family planning access
and use have been extensive, but perhaps not targeted enough toward social norms to
significantly decrease Jordan’s total fertility rate (TFR).