Graphic medicine formats, such as comic books in which health information is presented alongside images, may be a useful learning tool to improve post-rape care and youth-friendly service provision among health care providers in humanitarian contexts. This article describes the development and pilot-testing of a workshop using a comic book to improve youth-friendly post-rape care with providers in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda. Read More
Youth and Gender
Resource Package and Training Modules for Promoting Gender-Transformative Parenting
This resource package, and accompanying training modules, aims to help frontline workers support parents in implementing gender-transformative parenting practices at home and support positive gender socialization of children and adolescents. Read More
Why Emotions Matter: Promoting Female Teachers and Gender-Transformative Social-Emotional Learning in Nepal
This policy brief presents findings from mixed-method research conducted in seven schools and two residential learning centers from three districts (Kathmandu, Lalitpur, and Kavrepalanchowk) of Bagmati province. It seeks to understand the socio-emotional needs of adolescent girls in Nepal, the role of female teachers in addressing those needs, and the support teachers themselves are (or are not) receiving to play this role. Read More
Partnering with Youth for Impact: Profiles of MOMENTUM Youth Partners From Across the Globe
This document, also available in French, profiles some of MOMENTUM’s dynamic youth partners working across different geographies and contexts in South Asia and West and East Africa. These partners aim to increase health knowledge and demand for health services, shift social and gender norms in their communities, improve access to quality health services, and create adolescent-responsive systems across the humanitarian-development nexus. Read More
New Website: The Child, Early, & Forced Marriages & Unions (CEFMU) and Sexuality Working Group
The CEFMU and Sexuality Working Group has launched a new website housing its resource library and Working Goup updates. The site is now a destination for events, publications, and other news from its group of international and national organizations working with and for adolescent girls to advance their rights and opportunities. Read More
Social Norms Research Agenda
This product provides consensus-driven research priorities for social-norms-shifting for healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy among adolescents and youth in low- and middle-income countries to spur future innovation and investment within the global research and development community. The slide deck details the background of the product, the process for developing it, and next steps for its dissemination and use. Read More
