The Population and Community Development Association has used many different strategies to promote its programs. Often the strategies are considered unique or creative. Some of these strategies include:[1][2]
Efforts to make condoms more accessible & remove the stigma associated with them, like
Holding condom balloon blowing competitions
Creating a Captain Condom mascot
Making condoms available at associated Cabbages & Condoms restaurants in lieu of mints
Educating children in school
Having Buddhist monks sprinkle holy water on condoms
Overseeing a "Condom is the Girl's Best Friend" campaign
Having policy officers distribute condoms in a "Cops and Rubbers" program
Encouraging vasectomies by
Making donations into a community fund for every vasectomy performed
Holding a vasectomy lunch for Americans in Thailand
Increasing the availability of birth control pills
By utilizing floating markets to provide contraceptives/birth control pill
By training of local shopkeepers to prescribe birth control pill
Educating the population about HIV/AIDS
By using of military radio stations
Encouraging development
By making micro-loans available to general villagers at relatively low interest rates, especially for villages that use contraceptives
By creating village banks operated by (mostly) women within the village community