During A360’s first investment phase (2016-2020), the project successfully employed human-centered design (HCD) and adaptive implementation, and collaborated with young people, key influencers, and government health systems to design, implement, adapt, and scale adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) interventions across four geographies. During just over 2.5 years of implementation, these interventions supported over 400,000 adolescent girls aged 15-19 to take up a modern method of contraception and strengthened health systems across the project’s geographies (including Tanzania, Nigeria, and Ethiopia) to be more responsive to the unique needs of adolescent girls. This first phase generated considerable learning, promising external evaluation results, and interest from host governments and the wider ASRH sector.

In the final report from A360’s first investment phase, we describe this journey – and the learning that we are taking into this new investment phase.