Why this First Lady is Advocating for Girls
A Spotlight on Her Excellency Alhaja Kafayat Oyetola, First Lady of Nigeria’s Osun State By Kasey Henderson, Senior Associate Communications Manager, A360, PSI Removing the deep cultural and...
4 Ways Donors Can Invest in Adolescents and Youth Differently
By Mary Adebisi, A360 Youth Innovation Officer, SFH Nigeria We’re still a long way off from meeting the unique sexual and reproductive health needs of young people like myself. But with...
Q&A: A360’s MAYE Approach, Developed by Young People
Young people have always been at the very core of A360’s programming. And yet, attempts to meaningfully engage them have sometimes missed the mark. After all, young people are not a monolith....
From Agrarian to Pastoralist: Adapting for Greater Equity
In Ethiopia, we’re adapting PSI’s flagship adolescent sexual and reproductive health program, A360’s Smart Start, from its origin as a program that serves married girls in agrarian regions to...
To get gender transformative, go multi-generational
Yet for adolescent girls, the forces that shape her world too often hold her back from being able to #VoiceHerChoice. To achieve true gender equality, girls need supportive systems that enable...
Self-Care: For Youth, By Youth
With more than 1 billion youth—people between the ages of 15-24— around the world, the obstacles that they face while accessing health services are great. Limited educational resources and a lack...
Webinar: Digitizing During a Pandemic
By Kristen Little, Sr. Technical Advisor, PSI; Lola Flomen, Technical Learning Consultant, PSI; Samia Khatun, Head of Region, IPPF; and Trinity Zan, Associate Director,...
Q&A: A360’s MYE Strategy, According to Young Designers
Since A360’s launch in 2016, young people have shown us that the best solutions for adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programs come from when young people lead the way. As A360 shifts...
She Leads
PSI is reimagining how we can support consumers as active participants in a health system responsive to their needs. But what does that look like in practice? In her welcome letter for the...
Making Youth Programming Fit-for-Purpose in Mozambique
This piece is a part of A360's replication series on the UK Aid-funded Vale-a-Pena project. With and for young people, Vale-a-Pena is proving the power in applying A360’s youth-powered approach to...
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...