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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 Johns Hopkins International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) presents the Compendium of Information on COVID-19 Vaccination and Communications from the VALUE Initiative, a public-private partnership of the Baltimore City Health Department, IVAC, Morgan State University, Maryland Institute College of Art’s Center for Social Design, and Jhpiego, among others. The resource is a living document that [more…]
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The development and humanitarian sector comprises many organizations, groups and communities working towards shared sustainable development goals. Connecting with others working on the same issues is a critical enabler of better programs and projects. Since taking off 20 years ago, online groups and communities act as conduits for collaboration and learning. The Dgroups Foundation’s ‘community [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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For more than a decade, SMART Advocacy has enabled individuals and groups to implement advocacy and fuel progress. With SMART Advocacy, the Advance Family Planning initiative mobilized more than US $100 million for family planning and achieved hundreds of policy changes, both large and small. Since 2009, they achieved more than 2,200 policy and funding [more…]
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