A Girl with a Plan! Reimagining Contraceptive Services with and for Adolescent Girls in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania unlocks hope… and rapid contraceptive uptake
This brief highlights how the A360 blueprint developed from insights gathered in Ethiopia (Smart Start), Nigeria (9ja Girls) and Tanzania (Kuwa Mjanja), were not only used to reframe messaging around contraceptive use, but also applies the design mindset of empathy in developing solutions tailored to meet a wide array of girls with unique needs. It presents case examples of this based on the three countries, outlining approaches used to engage, inspire and serve adolescent girls.
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This brief highlights how the A360 blueprint developed from insights gathered in Ethiopia (Smart Start), Nigeria (9ja Girls) and Tanzania (Kuwa Mjanja), were not only used to reframe messaging around contraceptive use, but also applies the design mindset of empathy in developing solutions tailored to meet a wide array of girls with unique needs. It presents case examples of this based on the three countries, outlining approaches used to engage, inspire and serve adolescent girls.
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Designing for and with Girls: A Girl with a Plan!
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A360’s brief showcases how country level insights gathered from field-testing as part of human centered design in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania can be used to frame clear messaging that resonates strongly with girls. This document shares data on conversion rates that indicate positive shifts in adoption of contraception in each geography providing evidence to ASRH practitioners on the importance of using insights as a blueprint for rapid change.
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Men Stand Up
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This report presents perceptions of young men (aged 18 to 24 years) on issues related to family planning in India, Kenya, Mali & Nigeria. Insights presented in this document highlight young men’s experiences, needs and vulnerabilities related to sexual and reproductive health in the four countries. It showcases how participatory design and quantitative approaches have been used to encourage young men to tell their stories and offer personal perspectives on what they care most about. Program implementers, design researchers and other ASRH practitioners would find this document useful, particularly to better understand contextual differences and similarities across select geographies.
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HCD for adolescent services
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The presentation explores the Human Centered Design methods A360 employed during its design phase and the resulting insights that emerged. The presentation further captures process evaluation findings – led by A360’s external third-party evaluator Itad – while offering a deep dive into A360’s experience for rural, married girls in Ethiopia and peri-/urban married and unmarried girls in Tanzania.
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Conference Report Young Designer’s Global Conference
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This is a report of the first conference organised by and for young people engaged as designers in the Adolescent360 projects across Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania. The report outlines the agenda for the two-day online conference on Meaningful Youth Engagement, with information on what was discussed in each session. It highlights insights on MYE from attendee’s own experiences, and offers reccommendations on the promotion and improvement of MYE. This resource can offer good guidance for implementers, designers, youth, and evaluators seeking to practice MYE in HCD+ASRH programs.
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Pursuing Youth-Powered, Transdisciplinary Programming for Contraceptive Service Delivery across Three Countries: The Case of Kuwa Mjanja in Tanzania
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A360’s Kuwa Mjanja (Be Smart) is an innovative program that delivers life skills and contraceptive counseling sessions—tailored to and branded for the unique needs of the girls served. It’s a girl-powered call to action that seeks to reframe the narrative about girls, and contraception. This technical brief analyzes A360’s strategy and lessons learned to date, presenting a case study of the A360 experience in Tanzania, and offers considerations for how a girl-centered approach to contraception can address gaps in adolescent sexual and reproductive health in future settings.
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Youth Engagement Plan – PSI Ethiopia
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This guidance document captures how PSI Ethiopia engaged youth as Young Designers in the Adolescent 360 program. It provides practitioners with a comprehensive list of considerations when planning for youth (including a workplan template).
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Structural interventions to enable adolescent contraceptive use in low and middle income countries: What has been evaluated and how should future interventions be developed?
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Adolescent pregnancy rates in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are high and reducing these rates is an indicator for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). Enabling contraceptive use amongst sexually active adolescents is an important way to help address this. Most interventions tend to focus on providing contraceptives and family planning services or information and education to encourage girls to use contraception. However, these interventions do not usually address the broader factors that affect girls’ ability to access and use contraception. Structural interventions are those that address this broader context, such as interventions that aim to increase girls’ education, reduce poverty and/or increase their economic empowerment, or shift social norms around gender, adolescent sexuality or fertility.
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Integrating Human-Centered Design in a Multidisciplinary Effort to Address Provider Bias: a Summary of the Beyond Bias Experience (Part 3)
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This executive summary unpacks the use of HCD in ‘Beyond Bias’, an adolescent focused project that addresses provider bias. Along with providing an overview of the HCD methodology used, and the solutions generated by the project, this publication also reflects on the use of HCD in an ASRH project. It highlights the value additions of using human centered design, the key challenges that were faced, and important recommendations informed by project learnings. This is a good resource for designers and ASRH implementers to understand the application, benefits and limitations of the HCD process in the context of ASRH.