HCDExchange

A community working at the intersection of human-centered design and adolescent sexual and reproductive health

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Advancing learning and evidence on design-led adolescent sexual health

HCDExchange is a community of people and organizations working to generate learning and evidence to better understand how human-centred design can improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health outcomes.
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Youth

We are dedicated to making sure that sexual and reproductive health services are designed with you and reflect your needs, context, and reality. Youth are welcome to join our community — and we have dedicated Youth Leadership Hub associates to guide you.

Designers

Attend an event to learn how fellow designers are approaching ASRH. Get answers in our community discussion forum (coming soon!) or join a Working Group to advance strategies for integrating design into ASRH. Apply for a Design Fellowship.

Funders

Learn from programme officers who have invested in initiatives that use HCD. Get a better sense of what to look for in proposals and how to monitor and evaluate HCD+ASRH programs. Get updates about the latest evidence. Point your grantees to opportunities for peer learning and support.

Government

Explore how human centred-design can enhance government ASRH programmes through engaging with HCD experts. Access data and evidence on HCD’s impact in ASRH to inform policy or scale up of existing interventions.

Evaluators & Researchers

Contribute to advancing our Learning Agenda — or join / learn from a Working Group. We’ll be digging into questions like: Does HCD bring greater agency to youth? What does a good HCD+ASRH intervention look like? Which models are most effective?

Program Implementers

Find design and youth partners to co-create ASRH solutions. Test models of HCD+ASRH integration and share learning with the community. Stay up to date with the latest resources. Attend an event — or connect with us to share your work as a presenter.



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Community updates

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We’re hiring: Fullstack WordPress Development Consultant

The Wordpress Developer joins the team to support the refresh of the current website. The Developer will combine the art of design and coding to redesign the current HCDExchange website. The new redesigned website will be visually appealing, interactive, engaging, mobile responsive and reflect the HCDExchange brand.

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We’re hiring: Knowledge Translation Consultant (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights)

The consultant will support generation and dissemination of learning related to HCD+ASRH. In close collaboration with the Learning Lead, the consultant will review, distill, write content and package learning from landscape analyses related to the four priority focus areas – adolescent insights generated with Human Centred Design (HCD), youth integration in the context of HCD+ASRH, HCD+ASRH quality and standards, and HCD+ASRH measurement evaluation.

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Fellowship Learning & Reflections: Susan Towett, Grassroot Soccer

I am very proud to contribute to the construction of a ‘Youth-Powered Design Toolkit’ for GRS, preparing templates, guidance, and tools for the phases of the HCD process. I have organised existing tools, contributed new content, and prepared guidance for end users of the toolkit, GRS & partner organisation staff. The toolkit will aid in formalising the HCD process for GRS teams, and will be accompanied by HCD workshops that I will facilitate in the next month or so.

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IYD 2021: Celebrating Young Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Leaders

This year, the HCDExchange set out to honour International Youth Day all month long instead of just August 12 which is marked as International Youth Day. We are closing out the month by celebrating six young change makers who are making huge impacts in the sexual reproductive health of adolescents in their community.