The aim of this guide is to catalyze higher impact through intentional gender-transformative collective action. Through a series of steps, the guide supports civil service organizations in strengthening their gender-transformative skills, knowledge, and leadership to systematically analyze and address the root causes of gender inequality, both at the individual and a systems level.

In Bangladesh, faith-based organizations have the potential to meaningfully address harmful gender and sexual and reproductive health attitudes, behaviors and norms among very young adolescents, their families and communities. This brief summarizes an activity that sought to strengthen local partner capacity to apply effective programming addressing challenges facing very young adolescents, a population that is commonly overlooked.

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.

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.

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.

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.