Designing for and with Girls: A Girl with a Plan!
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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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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Led by PSI and implemented by SFH Nigeria, 9ja Girls works in partnership with A360 young leaders and across Nigeria’s public health facilities to support unmarried girls aged 15-19 to identify their dreams, and then understand the role contraception can play to take them one step closer to achieving their goals. This technical brief presents the case of 9ja Girls, offering lessons for similar ASRH programs seeking to design and implement scalable, sustainable, community-based programming with and for adolescents.
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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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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.
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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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Integrating Human-Centered Design in a Multidisciplinary Effort to Address Provider Bias: A Summary of the Beyond Bias Experience
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With an aim to expand the knowledge base of application of HCD in global health programs, the Beyond Bias project has documented, in a three-part series, its experience using HCD in a multidisciplinary approach to develop effective, scalable adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health interventions. The briefs cover programmatic challenges and opportunities, outline salient ideas and concepts that were generated and tested, share key insights on provider bias, and present the finalized intervention design.
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Conference Report Young Designer’s Global Conference
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A360 Process Evaluation Methodology: Updated July 2019
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The Process Methodology document presents a descriptive and analytical account of how the implementation of A360 has played out, with the aim of improving understanding of how and why A360 is making a difference, in order to generate lessons for future policy and practice. Clear questions guiding this Process Evaluation were established at end of the pilot phase with deliberate emphasis to better understand and document A360’s implementation approach. Questions articulated in this paper focus on process, context and solutions, with a detailed explanation on select methods used in the evaluation.
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A Girl with a Plan! Reimagining Contraceptive Services with and for Adolescent Girls in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania unlocks hope… and rapid contraceptive uptake
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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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