5 Key Lessons from 5 Years of Investments
By Meghan Cutherell, PSI/A360 Senior Program Manager and Kasey Henderson, PSI/A360 Senior Associate Communications Manager Catalytic impact grows from a mindset shift. With the September 2020...
Learning, Evolving and Collaborating: Measuring ASRHR Impact
By Matthew Wilson, A360 Project Director, PSI A360 is on a learning journey, and we have committed to being radically transparent even if this is uncomfortable sometimes. As we learn, our...
SSIR Publication: Design for Social Innovation
Lessons learned from A360 Ethiopia's Smart Start have helped to inform an era of social-impact design that is increasingly rigorous, experimental, and collaborative. Because as IDEO.org's Jocelyn...
Falling into Place – and Learning, Along the Way
By Matthew Wilson, A360 Project Director, PSI The end of Adolescents 360 (A360)’s first phase presents an opportune time for us to reflect on where we’ve come – and where we’re...
To measure innovation, we should have suited up differently
Like most projects, we designed our monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system at the beginning of the project. That works... normally. Standard projects go into design with the...
18 Months of Learning Since A360’s Midterm Evaluation
As part of our routine reflection and learning, we’ve convened to consider our inroads, failures and persistent gaps in the 18 months since our Midterm Evaluation Report. What have we learned...
We’re Delivering a Broken Promise to Girls
Through A360, we’ve seen firsthand how catalytic sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programming can be when we support girls to tap into their own agency to achieve their...
When it Comes to Continuation, We are Losing Girls
As a global community, we’ve helped 258 million girls and women in the world’s 69 poorest countries get modern contraception.* As many as 49 million of them could stop using it...
Failures in Meaningfully Engaging Young People
Since A360's start, we've committed to working alongside young people as equal project partners - and to rely on their insights to continually improve programming. In design, we collected data,...
We are Getting to Girls Too Late
Did you know? The height of cognitive & hormonal development occurs between ages 8-15, when social and gender norms also begin to shape girls’ lives and perceptions of their place...
At the Frontier of Healthcare’s Youth-Powered Future
Meaningfully engaging young people to drive their own health solutions is the only way forward. But what does that look like in practice? By: Amy Uccello, Sr. AYSRH Technical Advisor,...
We Used the Wrong Messenger to Reach Girls
In Tanzania, we wanted to reach more girls at rapid speed and scale, which meant further decentralizing mobilization responsibilities and rapidly onboarding new local partners to ‘own’ this...