Global LEAD
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Resources and examples for youth programming focused on youth engagement and leadership in health and wellbeing:
Policy & Strategy
- Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents: AAHA! (WHO)
- Vision for Health System Strengthening 2030 (USAID)
- The Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent’s Health (2016-2030) (UN)
- PEPFAR DREAMS Guidance (updated March 2021) (PEPFAR)
- Global Consensus Statement on Meaningful Adolescent & Youth Engagement (FP2030)
- Adolescent-friendly health services for adolescents living with HIV: from theory to practice (WHO)
Youth Statistics
- #YouthStats: Health (UN)
- #YouthStats: HIV/AIDS
- #YouthStats: Substance Abuse
- Adolescent and Young Adult Health & Adolescent Pregnancy (WHO)
- Investing in Adolescents Sexual and Reproductive Health (Guttmacher)
Best Practices
- What Works in Youth and Health (YouthPower)
- What Does Not Work in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (NIH)
- High Impact Practice Briefs for Family Planning (Johns Hopkins University)
- Opportunities to Increase Youth Employment in Health (USAID)
- Global Early Adolescent Study (Johns Hopkins University)
- Key Soft Skills for Cross-Sectoral Youth Outcomes (YouthPower)
- CEPPS Youth Brief: Health and Humanitarian Responses (CEPPS)
- Adolescent Boys and Young Men: Engaging Them as Supporters of Gender Equality and Health and Understanding their Vulnerabilities (Promundo and UNFPA)
- Ending the AIDS epidemic for adolescents, with adolescents (UNAIDS)
Program Design
- Gender Transformative Approach Toolkit for SRHR and GBV Programmes (Rutgers)
- Gender Roles, Equality and Transformation (GREAT) Project How-To Guide (Institute for Reproductive Health)
- Social Norms and AYSRH: Building a Bridge from Theory to Program Design (IRH)
- Mental Health Starter Kit (YouthLead)
- Meaningful and Inclusive Youth Participation Planning Tool (Johns Hopkins University)
- Youth Programming Assessment Tool: YPAT (FHI360)
- A Tool for Responsive AYSRH-Planning: TARP (Pathfinder)
- A360 Open Source Learning Hub (Adolescents 360)
- Integrating Youth and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Toolkit (YP2LE)
Curricula
- Gender Roles, Equality and Transformation (GREAT) Scalable Toolkit (Institute for Reproductive Health)
- The Training Resource Package for Pre-Service Education in Family Planning and Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (Pathfinder)
- Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Toolkit (The Gates Institute, JHU)
- Toolkit on Adolescents Living with HIV (YouthPower)
Networks and Communities of Practice
Examples
DREAMS (Botswana, CDI, Eswatini, Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
Global LEAD Models: Youth Clubs or Groups; Youth Networks; Youth Centers; Scholarships; Internships or Apprenticeships; Advocacy Training; Peer Mentoring; Peer Educators
- DREAMS: Partnership to Reduce HIV/AIDS in Adolescent Girls and Young Women (Program Overview)
- YouthPower Action Webinar Resources: Employment Programming Considerations for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in DREAMS Contexts (Lessons Learned)
- DREAMS: Implementation Science (Impact Reports, Data, Assessments)
- DREAMS Impact Evaluation (Impact Reports)
Fistula Care Plus (Uganda)
Global LEAD Models: Youth Clubs or Groups; Peer Educators; Advocacy Training
- Fistula Care Plus (Program Overview)
- Empowering Youth through Social and Financial Life Skills and Healthy Behaviors: Lessons from a Ugandan Pilot (Lessons Learned)
- Fistula Care Plus End of Project Resources (Resource Library)
- Five Years of Fistula Care Plus: Looking Back at Key Achievements and the Way Forward to End Fistula (Program Report)
IMPACT-MED Alliance (Vietnam)
Global LEAD Models: Community Service, Project-Based or Service Learning; Internships or Apprenticeships; Peer Mentoring; Youth-Led Research
- Improving Access, Curriculum, and Teaching in Medical Education and Emerging Diseases (IMPACT MED) (Program Overview)
- IMPACT MED Alliance Fact Sheet (Program Overview)
- USAID Helps Train Health Workers on COVID-19 Care (Photo Album)
Merci Mon Héros (West Africa)
Global LEAD Models: Leadership Training; Advocacy Training; Peer Mentoring; Peer Mobilizers; Youth-Led Media, Art, or Performance; Media Literacy Training; Digital Literacy Training
- Evidence to Inform Social and Behavior Change for Family Planning in Francophone West Africa (Activity Brief)
- Merci Mons Héros: Utilizing Digital to Champion Empathy for Youth, and Monitor Results (Webinar Recording)
- Informing Social and Behavior Change Programs: Using Social Listening and Social Monitoring (Research Brief)
- Findings from the Merci Mons Héros Social Listening Endline Report (Evaluation Report)
- Can Social Listening and Social Media Benefit Your SBC Activities? (Article)
- Youth Thank Their Reproductive Health Heroes (Article)
- Merci Mon Héros (Video Playlist)
Responsible, Engaged, and Loving (REAL) Fathers Initiative (Uganda)
Global LEAD Models: Peer Mentoring
- Responsible, Engaged, and Loving (REAL) Fathers Initiative (Program Overview)
- REAL Fathers Implementation Guidelines
Sauti Project (Tanzania)
Global LEAD Models: Youth Clubs or Groups; Peer Educators; Peer Mobilizers; Public or Community Dialogue
- Sauti Project Fact Sheet (Program Overview)
- Mid-Term Performance Evaluation of the USAID/SAUTI Project (Evaluation Report)
- Sauti Project Quarterly Progress Report FY17 Q3 (Program Report)
- Sauti Project FY2017 Work Plan (Program Plan)
