Preference-aligned fertility management: Assessing the feasibility of a newly proposed measure of contraceptive autonomy among married adolescent girls in Kaduna and Nasarawa states, Nigeria
This poster presentation, shared at the Society for Family Planning (SFP) meeting in 2023 showcased results from field-testing of preference-aligned fertility management (PFM), a measure newly proposed by Holt et al.1 which is defined as concordance between current self-reported desire to use contraception and current contraceptive use. We fielded a simplified version of the measure, […]
Effect and cost-effectiveness of human-centred design-based approaches to increase adolescent uptake of modern contraceptives in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania: Population-based, quasi-experimental studies
By Catarina Krug et al. Around half of adolescent pregnancies in low- and middle-income countries are unintended, contributing to millions of unsafe abortions per year. Adolescents 360 (A360), a girl-centred initiative, aimed to increase voluntary uptake of modern contraceptives among adolescents in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania. This article, published in Plos Global Public Health presents […]
Management Response to A360 External Evaluation (2016-2020)
A360’s donors commissioned an external evaluation in 2016 to independently evaluate and distill lessons from the program. This evaluation was comprised of three evaluations in one: a process evaluation, an outcome evaluation, and a cost-effectiveness analysis. This management response, compiled by A360, responds to the results of this external evaluation. The goal of this response […]
Implementing adaptive youth-centered adolescent sexual reproductive health programming: learning from the Adolescents 360 project in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nigeria (2016-2020)
This technical brief captures what we learned and how we pivoted following our external 2018 mid-term evaluation.
Pregnancy intentions and contraceptive use among married adolescents in northern Nigeria
This poster presentation, shared at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in 2021 presents the results of a cross-sectional survey conducted by A360 to explore the influence of future pregnancy intention on contraceptive adoption among adolescent girls visiting sites offering girl-centered, contraception services in northern Nigeria at A360 Amplify sites offering the Matasa Matan […]
More than side effects: How social norms and stigma affect discontinuation
In this poster presentation, shared at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in 2021, we share findings from a qualitative study fielded among married young women in Ethiopia and Nigeria to identify factors contributing to contraceptive discontinuation.
Expanding self-care interventions in Ethiopia: Client and provider experiences with piloting DMPA-SC self-injection
In this poster presentation, shared at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in 2021 we share results of a pilot study to explore the feasibility of DMPA-SC self-injection in the context of Ethiopia.
Design Insights: 2021 Prototype Report Card for Kenya
This prototype report card deck is a summary of key learnings that surfaced in our formative research phase for replication in Kenya in May 2021. The learnings described in the deck provided a first step for us in understanding what solutions were desirable for our key users, based on the archetypes identified during the initial […]