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Women Enabled International’s accountABILITY Toolkit empowers women with disabilities and organizations working on their behalf to make use of available United Nations (UN) human rights mechanisms. Bringing the voices and experiences of women and girls with disabilities to the UN human rights system is essential to hold States accountable for their human rights obligations and [more…]
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This study provides an analysis on the situation of young persons with disabilities concerning discrimination and gender-based violence, including the impact on their sexual and reproductive health and rights. It also provides an assessment of legal, policy, and programming developments and specific good practices in service delivery as well as best-standard prevention and protection measures. [more…]
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Women and young people with disabilities face discrimination and barriers when trying to exercise their rights. The Path to Equality for Women and Young Persons With Disabilities: Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Ending Gender-Based Violence is an ENGAGE multimedia presentation that describes the necessary policy changes and investments needed for women and [more…]
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Today, there are more young people in the world than ever before, and they have the power to bring about unprecedented societal and economic progress. The Advocating for Change for Adolescents! Toolkit was created with the hope of inspiring more youth-led, high-impact solutions for adolescent health and well-being to benefit today’s adolescents and future generations. [more…]
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Are you a youth advocate who wants to make family planning and reproductive health plans more responsive to the needs of young people? Use this new digital advocacy tool to identify gaps in your countries’ plans and make recommendations for improvement—to share directly with your policymakers. Using TARP, young people and their adult allies follow [more…]
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The Youth Family Planning Policy Scorecard dashboard allows users to access, interpret, and compare countries’ youth family planning policies and programming. Users can assess the extent to which a country’s current policy environment enables and supports youth access to and use of family planning. This assessment uses eight indicators that have been shown to be [more…]
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CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality conducted a study with 130 dedicated youth-led organizations (YLOs) and 15 major donors to understand the experiences of YLOs in accessing donor funds. Based on the study findings, the Investing in Youth Impact toolkit provides insight into the barriers that YLOs face in fundraising, from the YLOs’ and the donors’ [more…]
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Adolescents often face significant social and structural barriers to optimal sexual and reproductive health and development. To address these barriers, International Medical Corps in collaboration with local community partners implemented an integrated adolescent health project in Gondar City, in northwest Ethiopia. The project combined community-based activities with rehabilitation and systems support interventions to lay a [more…]
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E2A’s Thinking Outside the Separate Space (TOSS) is a first-of-its kind tool for designers of AYRH-responsive care—to determine the most appropriate model for delivering youth-friendly services. TOSS guides program designers in selecting and adapting appropriate youth-friendly service delivery model(s) based on the country context, target population, desired behavioral and health outcomes, sexual and reproductive health [more…]
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The Challenge Initiative’s Adolescent & Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (AYSRH) Toolkit contains evidence-based interventions for increasing young people’s access to sexual and reproductive health services and information in urban environments. It includes a range of adaptable interventions relating to three components of adolescent health programming: services, demand creation, and advocacy. The Toolkit supports the [more…]
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