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Taking Programs For Vulnerable Adolescents To Scale: Experiences, Insights, And Evidence, Martha Brady
Taking Programs For Vulnerable Adolescents To Scale: Experiences, Insights, And Evidence, Martha Brady
Poverty, Gender, and Youth
The international development community’s desire to alleviate poverty and improve health outcomes presents an extraordinary opportunity to transform the lives of young people, particularly girls. Cycles of illiteracy, poor job prospects, and social isolation can be broken but will require concerted efforts to reach large numbers of vulnerable adolescent girls with robust asset-building programs. Scaling-up effective pilot programs will be critical to achieving these goals. While there is an expanding body of research around scaling up health interventions, less is known or documented about scaling up cross-sectoral programs for adolescent girls. Bringing to scale programs directed toward poor, often invisible …
Filles Éveillées: Programme Pour Les Adolescentes Employées De Maison—Guide Du Mentor, Population Council
Filles Éveillées: Programme Pour Les Adolescentes Employées De Maison—Guide Du Mentor, Population Council
Poverty, Gender, and Youth
Ce curriculum est une composante du programme «Filles Éveillées» de renforcement des compétences et de création d'espaces sûrs pour les adolescentes migrantes engagées comme employées de maison dans les zones urbaines du Burkina Faso. L'approche du programme consiste à donner aux filles, un espace sûr qui leur est spécialement dédié et où elles peuvent rencontrer des amies et apprendre des sujets importants sous la direction d'un mentor de sexe féminin. Les séances sont conçues pour être réalisées dans l'ordre indiqué, en commençant par les compétences de vie courante, avant de passer aux capacités financières, puis à la santé et l'hygiène, …
From Research, To Program Design, To Implementation: Programming For Rural Girls In Ethiopia—A Toolkit For Practitioners, Annabel Erulkar
From Research, To Program Design, To Implementation: Programming For Rural Girls In Ethiopia—A Toolkit For Practitioners, Annabel Erulkar
Poverty, Gender, and Youth
This toolkit describes how to build or improve programs for rural adolescent girls in Ethiopia with a view to increasing the number of programs available and making them relevant and context-appropriate. The toolkit describes a process of program development that is grounded firmly in an evidence base. Chapters begin at a starting point of research to identify and describe girls, followed by program development emanating from data, to implementation guided by ongoing monitoring and evaluation.
Ampliación De Programas Para Adolescentes Vulnerables: Experiencias, Entendimientos Y Evidencia, Martha Brady
Ampliación De Programas Para Adolescentes Vulnerables: Experiencias, Entendimientos Y Evidencia, Martha Brady
Poverty, Gender, and Youth
El deseo de la comunidad de desarrollo internacional por aliviar la pobreza y mejorar los resultados de la salud presenta una oportunidad extraordinaria para transformar la vida de la gente joven, particularmente de las niñas. Ciclos de analfabetismo, escasas posibilidades de trabajo y aislamiento social pueden frenarse, pero requerirán de esfuerzos coordinados para alcanzar a una gran cantidad de niñas adolescentes vulnerables con programas sólidos construídos en base a los valores. El hecho de ampliar los programas piloto efectivos será crítico para lograr estos objetivos. A pesar de que hay un cuerpo de búsqueda en expansión alrededor de intervenciones de …