If policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.

One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.

I would like to see policy makers and international donor agencies realize that it is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.