Impactful Adolescent Family Planning Programs at Scale: Navigating the Trade-Offs
Despite clear evidence on what works to support improvements in ASRH outcomes, taking impactful programming to scale is rarely straightforward. This brief draws on experiences from the A360 and Connect projects in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Bangladesh, and Tanzania to explore the difficult—but necessary—trade-off questions implementers face when designing for both impact and scale: Do we […]
Practical Implementation Approaches for Contraceptive Continuation Among Adolescents
While many adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programs have traditionally focused on uptake – supporting young people to start using a method, continuation ensures that those who wish to avoid pregnancy can do so reliably, without unintended gaps. Evidence from the Adolescents 360 (A360) project shows that without deliberate strategies to support continuation, early […]
Gender Equality Learning from Practice Series: Gender Technical Assistance
The A360 and Gender Equality Learning from Practice series was launched as a way to share best practices and lessons learned from A360’s experiences in integrating gender equality throughout its programming for adolescent girls. The intention of this learning series is to improve gender equality outcomes by equipping practitioners with relevant tools, knowledge, and resources, […]
GENDER EQUALITY LEARNING FROM PRACTICE SERIES Part 2: The Gender STRATEGY
A360’s gender equality learning from practice series was launched as a way of sharing best practices and lessons learned from A360’s experience in integrating gender equality throughout its programming for adolescent girls. This learning series intends to improve gender equality outcomes by equipping practitioners with relevant tools, knowledge, and resources, anchored in what A360 has […]
Supporting Contraceptive Continuation Among Adolescent Girls: A Case Study from the A360 Project
Continued contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women helps to prevent unintended pregnancies and also reduces unmet need among this age group. Within A360’s first investment phase (2016-2020), the project focused on the design and implementation of interventions aimed at supporting contraceptive uptake among adolescent girls aged 15-19. However, a key lesson from this […]
Gender Equality Learning from Practice Series: The Gender Equality Continuum
A360’s gender equality learning from practice series was launched as a way of sharing best practices and lessons learned from A360’s experience in integrating gender equality throughout its programming for adolescent girls. This learning series intends to improve gender equality outcomes by equipping practitioners with relevant tools, knowledge, and resources, anchored in what A360 has […]
ENHANCING MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES FOR ADOLESCENT GIRLS & YOUNG WOMEN
Smart Start, developed under the Adolescents 360 (A360) initiative, is an innovative approach to adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) in Ethiopia.
Moving beyond talk: A practical guide to integrating economic empowerment and sexual reproductive health into programs for adolescent girls
By Meghan Cutherell (A360), Dharini Bhuvanendra (Kore Global) and Katherine Nichol (Kore Global) The resonance of A360’s interventions have always been aided by our ability to offer more than just contraceptive service provision to girls. Including a life and/or vocational skills component in our SRH-focused programs allowed us to respond to what girls said they […]