This Strategic Planning Guide is intended to lead program managers, planners, and decision makers through a strategic process to meaningfully and effectively engage and partner with adolescents, youth, and/or youth-led organizations on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programs and initiatives. Meaningful adolescent and youth engagement and partnership is a right for adolescents and youth and can improve the quality and responsiveness of SRH programs and policies, in turn leading to improved development outcomes. Read More
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A Girl’s Guide to Puberty and Periods
A Girl’s Guide to Puberty and Periods, a book and short video series, was produced by adolescent health experts at Columbia University in collaboration with Grow & Know. The series provides girls with practical advice, answers to common questions, and real puberty stories from girls across the USA. Tackling everything from body odor to big feelings to periods, these resources are designed for girls ages 9-14 for factual guidance on the physical and emotional changes of puberty. Read More
Creating Equitable Access to High-Quality Family Planning Information and Services: A Strategic Planning Guide
This document is intended to guide program managers, planners, and decision makers in identifying inequities in family planning and interventions to reduce them. The guide was developed through consultation and deliberation with technical experts in family planning and health equity and builds upon the discussion paper on equity in family planning. Read More
Transcending Norms: Gender Transformative Approaches in Women and Girls Safe Spaces in Humanitarian Settings
This resource aims to inform organizations managing Safe Spaces in the development of gender transformative approaches that not only address the immediate needs of women and girls, but whose impact also extends to shift the preconceptions, stereotypes, and norms that inhibit the evolution of gender dynamics, particularly in communities with deeply ingrained patriarchal attitudes. Read More
The Social Norms Atlas: Understanding Global Social Norms and Related Concepts
The Social Norms Atlas provides a broad introduction to social norms concepts, illustrative examples of social norms, behaviors, and attitudes in 10 sectors, and a cross-sector analysis highlighting meta-norms that cut across different sectors. The Atlas is written for program planners, implementers, evaluators, and researchers interested in building their social norms vocabulary, knowledge, and understanding. Read More
Advancing Male Engagement in Family Planning and Reproductive Health: An Advocacy Tool
This tool offers guidance on how to advocate with various audiences to bring about further investment in, commitment to, and implementation of male engagement to improve family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) outcomes. Users should adapt and expand upon the tool according to their specific needs.Read More
