Human-Centred Design In The Field
This handbook is designed to illustrate how human-centred design practices at UNICEF have lead to innovative and impactful outcomes for young people. From redesigning products and services, to building much-needed capacity in country offices, we hope that by showcasing these initiatives you will be inspired to integrate a human-centred approach in developing and scaling new solutions for every child.
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This handbook is designed to illustrate how human-centred design practices at UNICEF have lead to innovative and impactful outcomes for young people. From redesigning products and services, to building much-needed capacity in country offices, we hope that by showcasing these initiatives you will be inspired to integrate a human-centred approach in developing and scaling new solutions for every child.
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Midterm Review of the Adolescents 360 Program
Add To FavouritesMidterm Review of the Adolescents 360 Program
This midterm review synthesizes evaluation findings from the design phase of A360 and the first few quarters of implementation (Aug 2016 – Sep 2018), drawing together insights from an ongoing process evaluation, a cost-effectiveness analysis, and the baseline findings from an outcome evaluation. Although the review does not determine the effectiveness of the solutions and therefore A360 as a whole, it finds that the value of the A360 approach is starting to emerge, while also highlighting a number of challenges and trade-offs that the consortium continues to navigate. The MTE’s takeaways are useful for evaluators of HCD and adaptive programs (see page 10), and for donors and future ASRH implementers (see page 49).
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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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Connecting Contraception to Girls’ Lives and Aspirations in Southern Nigeria: The Case of 9ja Girls
Add To FavouritesConnecting Contraception to Girls’ Lives and Aspirations in Southern Nigeria: The Case of 9ja Girls
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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Youth Engagement Plan – PSI Ethiopia
Add To FavouritesYouth Engagement Plan – PSI Ethiopia
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 aiming to enable adolescent use of contraception in low- and middle-income countries
Add To FavouritesStructural interventions aiming to enable adolescent use of contraception in low- and middle-income countries
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
Add To FavouritesIntegrating Human-Centered Design in a Multidisciplinary Effort to Address Provider Bias: A Summary of the Beyond Bias Experience
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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Sexuality Education During Covid-19: Exploring the potential of adapting the Dance4Life empowerment model to the digital environment.
Add To FavouritesSexuality Education During Covid-19: Exploring the potential of adapting the Dance4Life empowerment model to the digital environment.
This is a report on the process Rutgers International went through to adapt and prototype their Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) curriculum to a digital version during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
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Evaluation of the Hewlett Foundation Strategy to Apply Human-Centered Design (HCD) to Improve Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa
Add To FavouritesEvaluation of the Hewlett Foundation Strategy to Apply Human-Centered Design (HCD) to Improve Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa
This publication is relevant for implementers, designer and evaluators in the HCD+ASRH field. It provides a detailed evaluation of programs designed and implemented by IDEO and MSI in Zambia and Kenya using the HCD process. More specifically, the report talks about the feasibility, value add, and limitations of the HCD approach. It also presents learnings about the capacity needed to implement an HCD approach, along with contextual factors that enable and inhibit the successful use of HCD.