We are thrilled to present the new HCDExchange Advisory Council! The Advisory Committee provides HCDExchange with expertise, leadership support, and strategic direction. They lend their voices and influence as HCD+ASRH champions, advocate for the adoption of good practices and for the generation of evidence and broker partnerships and create opportunities to secure political and financial […]
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Meet the new HCDExchange Youth Leadership Hub
We are extremely excited to introduce you to the second batch of HCDExchange Youth Leadership Hub Associates. The Youth Leadership Hub (YLH) is a cohort of eight youth HCD+ASRH leaders from sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia who offer insight on young people’s lives and experiences, lead meaningful youth engagement efforts, and demonstrate youth leadership across HCDExchange’s work.
We’re hiring: Senior Program Manager, HCDExchange Community of Practice
Under the direction of the HCDExchange Project Director, the Senior Program Manager (SPM) is responsible for planning, team management and performance oversight that is aimed at achieving the HCDExchange’s mission and objectives with a focus on quality assurance and compliance as well as creativity, collaboration and camaraderie. He/she/they will manage and execute HCDExchange’s work plan, supervise and support a cross-cultural and geographically distributed team, and develop or refine processes and practices that boost efficiency, facilitate collaboration, and honor differences.
Decoding Ethics in HCD & ASRH
The importance of Ethics is particularly crucial when considering engagement with vulnerable populations and sensitive topics. Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health sits at the confluence of these.
Community Call Learning Summary: Keeping Quality at the Core of HCD + ASRH
As we work to build the field of HCD + ASRH as a more mainstream way of running this kind of programming, we want to ensure that quality remains central to these programmes, and there are universal standards for evaluating quality. This helps to ensure that all stakeholders are held accountable to the same standard and we can avoid the use of tokenistic human-centred design approaches.
HCDExchange Quality and Standards Working Group
What does ‘quality’ mean at the intersection of HCD & ASRH work? How can we ensure quality throughout the design and implementation stages of these programmes? The HCDExchange Quality and Standards Working Group, chaired by HCDExchange partner YLabs, is working together to develop quality standards for applying design methods and mindset to ASRH programming. It […]
Announcing the inaugural HCDExchange Design Fellows
We are pleased to announce the inaugural cohort of the HCDExchange Design Fellows! The HCDExchange Fellowship was conceived to drive cross learning between human-centred design professionals and organizations working within adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Fellows are selected through an open process and placed within leading design-led ASRH organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa for a period […]
Join the HCDExchange Advisory Committee
The HCDExchange is diversifying the Advisory Committee and opening up to new membership. The HCDExchange first formed an Advisory Committee in July 2020 to provide the Secretariat with expertise, leadership support, and strategic direction. Primarily comprised of dynamic, passionate and experienced leaders in the HCD+ASRH community, the Advisory committee performs the following duties: Lend their […]
Community call summary: generating adolescent insights for ASRH using HCD
On this call, we explored the question: how might human-centred design facilitate the process of gathering and using informative insights from youth?
Reflections on the HCDExchange journey so far with MaqC Eric Gitau
HCDExchange director MaqC Eric Gitau reflects on the HCDExchange journey so far and what lies ahead in 2021.