Our training materials can be used to introduce a broad range of audiences and backgrounds to important concepts related to gender and health. Each training course focuses on one of five themes that complement the CORE Gender 101 agenda: Gender Integration, HIV + Sexuality, Safe Motherhood, Gender-Based Violence, and Constructive Male Engagement. The courses are designed to meet the geographic and technical needs of cooperating agencies, USAID Missions, and specific projects. Materials range from basics such as using a shared gender vocabulary and programmatic guidance, to user guides on how to conduct a gender analysis, to exercises for gender trainings. The trainings are geared to be used by anyone and with any audience, even those learning about gender for the first time!
Our popular Gender Integration Continuum framework is an important tool to assess how programs do (or do not) address gender and move them toward more gender-transformative actions. An updated User’s Guide for facilitating training on use of the continuum is available, along with other materials.
Adequate and validated indicators are essential for tracking progress on addressing menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) as an important health, education, gender equality, and water, sanitation, and hygiene issue. These recommended indicators monitor MHH for adolescent girls across priority domains and are intended to enable comparability across countries and over time.
This article highlights insights and lessons learned from the PACE Project for creating more equitable, inclusive, meaningful—and, ultimately, impactful—partnerships with youth leaders. PACE has evolved a partnership model that fosters respectful and mutually beneficial partnerships with youth leaders and youth-led organizations that honors their unique priorities and explores new approaches. This intentional approach questions traditional strategies, shifts power dynamics, focuses on learning from youth leaders, and capitalizes on the diverse skills and strengths of partners.
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.
This report highlights the impact of PAI’s flagship youth program, YOUAccess, which supports and partners with adolescent- and youth-led (AYL) organizations to advance adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights. AYL organizations are often overlooked, but they have unique perspectives that shift norms, change policies, and secure increased funding from governments and donors.
On February 2, 2022, the CEFMU and Sexuality Working Group convened a webinar to discuss issues related to child marriage interventions. Panelists shared their perspectives on 1) why age of marriage as standalone vision and measure of success is limiting and potentially harmful; 2) alternative programming approaches and measurements; and 3) needs from funders and researchers to advance this work. This brief, also available in Spanish and French, shares key takeaways from the event.
To ensure the accessibility of the Journal of Adolescent Health's research supplement, "Shared Roots, Different Branches", this advocacy summary synthesizes the supplement's key themes, such as how parental and community pressures, vague laws, poverty, and unintended pregnancy can push girls (and sometimes boys) into early marriage; how these factors shape girls’ experiences within marriage; and how to address the root cause of child marriage: patriarchal control of girls’ sexuality.
