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Resources On Youth Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS

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Academy for Educational Development (AED)
 


Active in more than 250 countries, the Academy for Educational Development (AED) seeks to improve education, health, civil society, and economic development through sustainable programs developed in partnership with local communities. AED has engaged with youth around the world in programs ranging from prevention of HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence to conflict resolution. A few of AED’s documents on youth are described below; other information can be found on the youth portion of their Web site.

Economic Strengthening for Vulnerable Children: Principles of Program Design and Technical Recommendations for Effective Field Interventions (2008, PDF, 624 KB)
Economic strengthening is gaining in importance and prominence. Few experts who work to reduce child vulnerability doubt that poverty is a major contributor to the challenges young people face. This 76-page document offers two sets of tools for program planners: (1) a series of seven principles for program design of economic-strengthening projects; and (2) a set of technical recommendations on how to implement selected activities. The document also provides an annotated list of technical references, and concludes with a glossary of terms.

Keeping the Promise: Five Benefits of Girls' Secondary Education (2006, PDF, 108 KB)
Written to emphasize the importance of girls' secondary education in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, this 92-page booklet includes discussion of the role of girls’ education in mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS and in improving the overall health of communities. 

Making Schools Safe for Girls: Combating Gender-based Violence in Benin (2004, PDF, 951 KB)
This 24-page case study presents the results from workshops and interviews with Beninese girls, aged 11-19, and their parents. Participants discussed various aspects of the gender-based violence in schools, as well as strategies to make school safer for girls. Personal stories, statistics, and background information are included.

Social Marketing Lite: Ideas for Folks with Small Budgets and Big Problems (2008, PDF, 2.73 MB)
This booklet is intended to help program planners understand, imagine, and develop low-budget social marketing interventions. Various definitions, themes, and practices in social marketing are described, followed by two in-depth case studies. Though not specific to youth activities, this document describes techniques that would be useful to program managers, advocates, and other professionals working to promote their youth programs.

Tailoring the Education Message: A Diversity of Settings and Needs (2007, PDF, 600 KB)
This report documents a symposium of the UNAIDS Interagency Task Team on Education (May 2007), which addressed two problems that are critical to stemming the advance of HIV infection: (1) improving education for refugees and internally displaced persons; and (2) understanding the negative results of “hard masculinity” and establishment of boys’ gender identity in relation to their participation in education.

 

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