Engaging young people in the design of a sexual reproductive health intervention: Lessons learnt from the Yathu Yathu (“For us, by us”) formative study in Zambia
Meeting the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of adolescents and young people (AYP) requires their meaningful engagement in intervention design. This article describes an iterative process of engaging AYP to finalize the design of a community-based, peer-led and incentivized SRH intervention for AYP aged 15–24 in Lusaka and the lessons learned.
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Meeting the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of adolescents and young people (AYP) requires their meaningful engagement in intervention design. This article describes an iterative process of engaging AYP to finalize the design of a community-based, peer-led and incentivized SRH intervention for AYP aged 15–24 in Lusaka and the lessons learned.
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A360 Emerging Insights for Design
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This deck summarises insights gathered by the A360 team for designing the Smart Start program in Ethiopia. It shares what the design team learned about young girls’ motivations behind SRH-related behaviour and decisions. The deck starts with giving information about the methodology behind insight generation, and then goes into findings about young girls’ behaviour, cultural norms, and traditional contraception messaging. Finally, creators of the deck share themes that they thought were relevant for consideration, and offer recommendations on how the intervention can be designed. This is a good tool to understand how insight generation happens in an HCD process, but may not necessarily be helpful to someone who is unaware of HCD.
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A360 Evaluation Findings Synthesis: No 1. How might we better meet the needs of adolescent couples with contraceptive counseling and services through Ethiopia’s Health Extension Program?
Add To FavouritesA360 Evaluation Findings Synthesis: No 1. How might we better meet the needs of adolescent couples with contraceptive counseling and services through Ethiopia’s Health Extension Program?
This publication is a summary of the process evaluation done by ITAD, for A360’s Smart Start project in Ethiopia. It highlights the methodology used for this process evaluation, and the key insights that were arrived at through action research with the users and a sounding workshop with the A360 team. The publication also provides direction and recommendations that are informed by the insights generated through the process evaluation of the Smart Start project. This is a great resource for implementers and evaluators who are seeking a methodology and some inspiration to evaluate their programs.
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Tackling Provider Bias in Contraceptive Service Delivery- Lessons from the Beyond Bias project
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The presentation provides an overview of the Beyond Bias project approach, describes the behavior change strategy developed
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The Dapivirine Ring design guide: Human-Centered Design Research to Increase Uptake and Use
Add To FavouritesThe Dapivirine Ring design guide: Human-Centered Design Research to Increase Uptake and Use
This publication is useful for implementers and other stakeholders, introducing readers to a set of tested HCD concepts and tools that can be customized to the local context and integrated into programming. It gives an overview of design concepts and how they were developed through user research, journey mapping, and persona development. Second, a supplementary asset library provides resources such as editable templates and supporting visuals for select concepts. These assets are a starting point for individuals to adapt existing concepts according to the needs of the communities and stakeholders served.
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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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The Dapivirine Ring design guide: Human-Centered Design Research to Increase Uptake and Use
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This publication is useful for implementers and other stakeholders, introducing readers to a set of tested HCD concepts and tools that can be customized to the local context and integrated into programming. It gives an overview of design concepts and how they were developed through user research, journey mapping, and persona development. Second, a supplementary asset library provides resources such as editable templates and supporting visuals for select concepts. These assets are a starting point for individuals to adapt existing concepts according to the needs of the communities and stakeholders served.
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Structural interventions aiming to enable adolescent use of contraception in low- and middle-income countries
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Reducing adolescent pregnancy is a global public health priority and enabling contraceptive use is one way to achieve this. Broader determinants of contraceptive use, such as poverty, education and social norms, can affect knowledge, attitudes, motivation and ability to access and use contraception. Structural interventions aim to address these broader determinants and include cash transfer interventions, interventions to encourage participation in school, empowerment interventions and interventions aiming to change social norms. We conducted an evidence synthesis to explore a) what structural interventions have been evaluated for their effect on adolescent contraceptive use in low- and middle-income countries and b) how such interventions may work.
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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.