A360 Refreshed Gender Strategy (2024-2025)
Back in 2021, A360 decided to develop a gender strategy, to provide a framework for its commitment to and actions on gender equality. With support from Kore Global – a gender equality and social inclusion advisory firm – the gender strategy development process provided an opportunity for the A360 team to come together and define priority […]
Strengthening climate resilience – where does gender fit in?
Reposted blog from Kore Global, A360’s global gender partner. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by climate change-related shocks and stressors, including droughts, floods, and extreme temperature changes. The nexus between gender equality and climate resilience is an increasingly urgent consideration across all projects and initiatives. Kore Global and our partners at Population Services International […]
A360 Global Research and Learning Agenda (Updated May 2024)
A360 is not a conventional investment in service delivery. The value of the investment in A360 will be amplified and sustained when external stakeholders at all levels can understand and apply A360’s learning. This application depends on A360 effectively testing the real-world effectiveness of its innovative approaches, successfully capturing evidence and learning from the process, […]
A360 Global Technical Strategy Description (Updated May 2024)
A360’s first investment phase (2016-2020) 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. In 2020, the project transitioned to a second investment phase (2020-2025), […]
A360 Logic Model
This logic model lays out the specific activities and associated outcomes that A360 aims to pursue in its current investment phase (2016-2020). These activities and outcomes align with A360’s technical strategy pillars around adaptation, institutionalization, and learning.
Preference-aligned fertility management among married adolescent girls in Northern Nigeria: assessing a new measure of contraceptive autonomy
In this article, published in BMJ Global Health, we reflect on the value of utilizing a new measure of contraceptive autonomy through its testing in A360’s continuation cohort study in northern Nigeria. Original article published via BMJ. Abstract: Introduction Universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare—including family planning (FP)—is a global priority, yet there is […]
Preference-Aligned Fertility Management: Assessing the Feasibility of a New Measure of Contraceptive Autonomy
Authors: Claire W. Rothschild, Alhaji Bulama, Roselyn Odeh, Salome Chika-Igbokwe, Julius Njogu, Abednego Musau This poster presentation, shared during the PAA 2024 conference, shares the results of A360’s assessment of Preference-Aligned Fertility Management (PFM), a newly proposed measure defined as concordance between self-reported demand and use of contraception. This was assessed during A360’s continuation cohort […]
MMA Implementation Asset: ANC Journey Brochure by Trimester
In 2022, A360 designed an adaptation to MMA which expands LFH to pregnant girls to provide them with the information and support they need to pursue a healthy pregnancy. As part of this adaptation, pregnant married adolescent girls can attend a pre-ANC session as part of MMA’s Life Family Health (LFH) classes. During this session […]