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The DHS Program The DHS Program collects, analyzes and disseminates DHS data on population and health. The DHS Program is funded by the U.S. The project is implemented by ICF.

The DHS Program has earned a worldwide reputation for collecting and disseminating accurate, nationally representative data on fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, gender, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and nutrition. Agency for International Development (USAID). Contributions from other donors, as well as funds from participating countries, also support surveys. Since September 2013, ICF has been partnering with six internationally experienced organizations to expand access to and use of the DHS data:

- Avenir Health
- Blue Raster
- EnCompass
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs
- PATH

The DHS Program...
- Believes that the ultimate purpose of collecting data is its use in policy formation, program planning, and monitoring and evaluation.
- Aims at fostering and reinforcing host-country ownership of data collection, analysis, presentation, and use.
- Coordinates with key stakeholders on data collection and dissemination.
- Selects the most appropriate data collection methods to ensure the provision of high-quality data at a reasonable cost.
- Increases the capacity of host-country partners to collect and use data for program and policy purposes.

Yes, matter.
08/18/2026

Yes, matter.

A room of 500 people. One question. By the end, nobody was still sitting down.

At a family planning conference last November, a former USAID deputy asked the room who had worked at USAID as of January 2025. Then she asked who had worked with an implementing partner. By the last question, every person in the room was standing, people from all over the world whose lives had been shaped by USAID. Dr. Apoorva Jadhav, who was in that room, says it was the moment she felt reaffirmed to keep going.

Jadhav spent years as USAID's senior demographer and statistician, working on the Demographic and Health Surveys that shaped real policy: school reentry for pregnant teens in Uganda, a Supreme Court ruling on child marriage in India, a disability rights bill in South Africa. On this episode of Global Development Interrupted, she talks about what made that data trustworthy, why she believes future versions of these surveys are at risk of losing that trust, and what it meant to stand in a room and realize she was not alone.

New episode, out now. https://globaldevinterrupted.substack.com/p/demography-is-destiny-but-whose?r=3npp8u

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