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The Global Early Adolescent Study is a worldwide investigation into how gender norms evolve and inform a spectrum of health outcomes in adolescence. This seeks to better understand how gender socialization in early adolescence occurs around the world, and how it shapes health and wellness for individuals and their communities. The project organized a webinar [more…]
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With the support of Jhpiego, the Government of India implemented an initiative called ‘Dakshata’, which aimed at improving QoC in intra and immediate postpartum period for the mother and child in Rajasthan region of India through focused and customized trainings for strategic skill-building of providers on high-impact essential practices. The foundation of this strategic initiative [more…]
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The Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation is a package of guidance, tools, activities, and supplies to support adolescents ages 10-18, especially those who are affected by humanitarian crises. The Kit aims to bring about positive change in adolescents’ lives through arts and innovation. The activities offer adolescents the chance to express themselves, experiment, solve [more…]
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This publication, produced by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, has been developed to support the implementation of the WHO guidelines on mental health promotive and preventative interventions for adolescents, released in 2020. The Toolkit includes a core set of evidence-informed strategies to promote and protect adolescent mental health. These strategies focus on: the implementation [more…]
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In the 28 years since the International Conference on Population and Development, there has been remarkable progress on various aspects of adolescent sexual and reproductive health. For example, the rate of adolescent childbearing globally has declined from 47.9 births per 1,000 girls in 2010 to 41.2 births per 1,000 girls in 2020. The rates of [more…]
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The Podcast series, Adolescents in Crisis: unheard voices, is a five-part podcast series that shines a light on the millions of adolescents around the world who are forced to flee their homes. They form part of a global community of some 70 million refugees, displaced because of persecution, climate crises and conflict. Nearly half of [more…]
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The World Health Organization (WHO) sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) policy document repository includes close to 5,000 documents from approximately 140 countries submitted through the 2018-2019 WHO RMNCAH Policy Survey. The documents were submitted by national survey respondents and were organized and catalogued by the WHO Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child [more…]
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This MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator report provides an overview of current organizational capacity literature and proposes a new enhanced framework that reflects on the evolution of capacity development thinking in recent years. It considers performance, resilience, sustainability, adaptive learning, and systems thinking and hones in on a limited set of key observable behaviors and practices that [more…]
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This technical brief provides an overview of how MOMENTUM addresses gender across the project cycle and within a variety of program areas. Given MOMENTUM’s scale and scope, insights from this resource may be useful to other global health implementers seeking to ensure that gender is effectively integrated within their projects.
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Global Health Media Project’s videos on reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health are engaging, crystal clear, short, and practical. They enable learners of all levels to easily understand and remember critical teaching points. There are videos offered in many languages covering topics like labor care, breastfeeding, and contraceptive use, placement, and removal. This video provides [more…]
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