Project Mayu: Understanding the reproductive health of Doya Women (Lhops) through an ethnographic exploration of their family planning practices.

Abstract

Project Mayu was a research project that focused on women in Doya, an indigenous community residing in Bhutan’s southern foothills of Samtse. The project aimed to understand the reproductive health of these Doya women through comprehension of one of its components of family planning. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted with the researchers living alongside the community where both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection were applied. The data was also analyzed from a gendered perspective. After two weeks of field site research and three months of post research, Project Mayu has found the establishment of roads and BHU significantly contributing to the changing family planning practices.