The TAHSEEN project in Egypt took advantage of local leaders’ great influence and power for positive change by training them to be positive influences for change in RH/FP practices. With Pathfinder training, clergy, community outreach workers, traditional birth attendants, teachers, local civic leaders, and members of the media helped spread knowledge and understanding about healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies; postpartum, antenatal, and postabortion care; advantages of delayed marriage and childbearing; continued schooling for girls; and communication between couples and between parents and children about RH/FP. The leaders were also trained on the importance of not just educating people about these services, but endorsing them and.
