4 Takeaways from A360’s Prototyping Phase
This blog series is a part of the A360 Open Source, a treasure chest of learnings and tools that you can apply as we work, together, to drive youth-powered sexual and reproductive health...
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...
Impact Through Implementation Science
Despite what we might like to think, evidence-based interventions don’t always guarantee impact. That’s in part because a key make-or-break ingredient in this schema is all around us, but...
Dreaming With Girls – How Aspirations Shape Contraceptive Use
For too long, young people haven’t been a part of the health solutions that serve them. That’s beginning to change. We are increasingly working with adolescents and youth to program,...
Reaching Mothers: We Thought it was in the Bag
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...
Do the #DareToDream Challenge
Young people’s perspectives are the backbone of PSI’s youth-powered work. At PSI, we’re making space at the table for the next gen to tell us what they want out of the solutions that...
5 Ways to Address Market Failures in the Mozambican Context
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...
Powering Change, with Youth at the Helm
In Mozambique, one in two girls will marry and two in five girls will have given birth by age 18. For the nation to achieve a demographic transition, it remains an undisputed priority to...
Delivering on Girl-Powered Programming
Adolescents 360 (A360) proves that when we put girls and their needs at the center of program design, development, measurement and evaluation, we can tip the scales for girl-powered modern...
AFP: Nigerian women embrace family planning ahead of population boom
This article first appeared in Agence France-Presse on Jan. 30, 2019. Modupe Adegbite's grandfather had 22 children, while her father had nine. At the age of just 19, she has decided she wants no...
A360’s 5 Takeaways from ICFP
By: Amy Uccello, Sr. AYSRH Technical Advisor, PSI This International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), Adolescents 360 (A360) sparked a drumbeat. With 20+ A360-focused posters, panels,...
The Youth-Powered Issue of PSI’s Impact Magazine
While the global health community focuses on the demographic dividend, PSI's Impact magazine decided it was time to stop speaking about young people and instead hear directly from them. This issue...