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Interagency Youth Working Group

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Resources On Youth Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS

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IYWG Activities

The Interagency Youth Working Group (IYWG), formed in 2006, is sponsoring this Web site as part of its mission to provide global technical leadership to advance the reproductive health and HIV/AIDS outcomes of young people ages 10-24 in developing countries. Below is more information about the IYWG, partner organizations involved with the IYWG, our meetings, and our publications. We welcome your input on this Web site and our activities. For more information, send us an email.

IYWG Activities

About the Interagency Youth Working Group

The Interagency Youth Working Group (IYWG) seeks to provide global technical leadership to advance the reproductive health and HIV/AIDS outcomes of young people ages 10-24 in developing countries by:

  • sharing research and programmatic results and lessons on youth reproductive health and HIV/AIDS with the reproductive health, HIV, and youth development communities
  • promoting strategies that move promising research findings and best practices into programs and policies
  • advocating for greater focus on youth within reproductive health and HIV programs

The IYWG is a network of nongovernmental agencies, donors, and cooperating agencies. IYWG partner organizations are funded by USAID through the Global Leadership Priority (GLP) for Youth. The GLP for Youth strategic plan focuses on knowledge management and dissemination, policy analysis and development, operations and evaluation research, service delivery, and behavior change communication (BCC), as well as the thematic areas of married youth, very young adolescents, and gender. 

IYWG Partners

The partners met on November 2, 2006, February 8, 2007, July 24, 2007, and March 13, 2008. Activities of the partners are summarized below:

Abt Associates/PSP-One: Adapt the Youth Friendly Pharmacy model for India to reach married youth, carry out a population-based survey of youth in India to collect baseline and endline data, and evaluate the intervention. (service delivery)

Constella Futures/USAID|Health Policy Initiative, Task Order 1: Continue and expand the youth-policy.com website, and develop/implement youth RH policies in one to two countries with a focus on gender. (policy)

Family Health International/CRTU: Produce YouthLens and Youth InfoNet publications for IYWG, coordinate IYWG activities, oversee content of new IYWG Web site, promote utilization of tools produced at end of YouthNet project, complete YouthNet research reports, and develop concept paper for synthesis report. (knowledge management) 

Information & Knowledge for Optimal Health (INFO) Project, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs: Design and host IYWG website. (knowledge management)

Institute for Reproductive Health/AWARENESS: Increase very young adolescents’ knowledge about the body, fertility, and gender roles; build their negotiation and communication skills. (BCC)

ACCESS-FP: Adapt and evaluate a participatory module in Haiti to address the reproductive health needs of young girls and young mothers. Program strategies include BCC activities, youth-friendly services and participatory community-based activities. (service)

MEASURE DHS: Develop a comparative report on youth and create a “youth corner” on the MEASURE DHS Web site. (knowledge management)

MEASURE Evaluation: Improve collection of data on youth at high risk of unintended pregnancy by adapting the PLACE methodology in Haiti, which can identify at-risk youth not currently served by the health system. (research)

Population Reference Bureau/BRIDGE: Develop policy brief on adolescent fertility and education, and conduct desk review of interventions focused on reducing prevalence of cross-generational sex among unmarried youth. (knowledge management)

World Health Organization/Child & Adolescent Health: Advocate for a comprehensive, multi-sectoral approach, focusing technical assistance on the health sector and supporting the collection and analysis of data to monitor implementation and progress towards global goals. (global)

IYWG Meetings

IYWG Publications

On behalf of IYWG, Family Health International (FHI) produces two publication series, YouthLens and Youth InfoNet. FHI initiated both publications as part of the YouthNet project (2001-06), which FHI led.

YouthLens is a series of research briefs that summarizes the latest information on key issues regarding reproductive health and HIV prevention among youth ages 10 to 24. Sponsorship by the IYWG began with No. 19.
 
Youth InfoNet is a one-stop monthly and fully electronic source for new publications and information on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention. Sponsorship by the IYWG began with No. 28.

Other IYWG Publications:

Family Life Education: A Handbook for Adults Working with Youth from a Christian Perspective (PDF, 1.52 MB)
This handbook by Family Health International provides an introductory resource for adults working with youth in a faith context. It is adapted from the participant handbook used in a training with six, day-long workshops. The 20 sections in this handbook are grouped according to the first five workshop topics. This handbook is an easy-to-use resource, providing basic information and guidance without a formal training curriculum.

"Saathiya" Country Research Brief: Evaluating Demand-Side Impacts of a Youth-Friendly Initiative (YFI) in India: Baseline Findings (PDF, 180 KB)
This brief by Abt Associates/PSP-One summarizes results from a survey among 2,573 young people, designed to help inform the training of Indian chemists and practitioners of indigenous systems of medicine on how to provide youth-friendly family planning services. Click here for more information.

Addressing Cross-Generational Sex: A Desk Review of Research and Programs (PDF, 615 KB)
This review by Population Reference Bureau identifies the range of programmatic approaches to prevent or reduce cross-generational sex. The Interagency Gender Working Group collaborated with the IYWG in funding this project.

Powerful Partners: Adolescent Girls' Education and Delayed Childbearing (PDF, 341 KB). This six-page brief by Population Reference Bureau describes adolescent girls' reproductive health risks and how increasing their educational attainment reduces those risks, including early and unwanted pregnancy.

Risk-Taking Behaviors among Youth Socializing in Target Venues of Carrefour, Haiti (PDF, 687 KB)
This report by MEASURE Evaluation discusses the results of a study in Haiti that adapted the Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts (PLACE) methodology to working with youth.

 

Disclaimer: The information provided on this web site is not official U.S. Government information and does not represent the views or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Government or The Johns Hopkins University.