How has Human-Centered Design Contributed to Youth Engagement in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Programming?
Human-centered design (HCD) offers a framework to leverage people’s perspectives in a process to solve a specific problem. It focuses on developing empathy to better understand how people experience the problem and its proposed solutions (HCDExchange, 2022). In the last decade, HCD has demonstrated the potential to increase youth engagement in adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) programming by incorporating young people’s perspectives and ideas in developing ASRH solutions. However, there is limited systematic analysis or documentation of the role that HCD has played in promoting youth engagement in ASRH programs. This technical brief addresses that gap by describing how HCD has been employed to enhance youth engagement in the design, implementation, refinement, and evaluation of ASRH programming.
Human-centered design (HCD) offers a framework to leverage people’s perspectives in a process to solve a specific problem. It focuses on developing empathy to better understand how people experience the problem and its proposed solutions (HCDExchange, 2022). In the last decade, HCD has demonstrated the potential to increase youth engagement in adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) programming by incorporating young people’s perspectives and ideas in developing ASRH solutions. However, there is limited systematic analysis or documentation of the role that HCD has played in promoting youth engagement in ASRH programs. This technical brief addresses that gap by describing how HCD has been employed to enhance youth engagement in the design, implementation, refinement, and evaluation of ASRH programming.
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Sexuality Education During Covid-19: Exploring the potential of adapting the Dance4Life empowerment model to the digital environment.
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This report presents A360’s reflections from its programs on adolescent contraceptive service delivery in three countries; Ethiopia, Tanzania and Nigeria. These learnings are generated through cross learning across the different contexts, and are focused on the adaptive management of A360’s programs during the first two and a half years of implementation. Furthermore, the report also offers considerations to be taken into account for future implementation of A360’s programs. This is a useful resource for ASRH practitioners who would like to learn more about adaptive management of programs post implementation.