Pathfinder International
Pathfinder, an international nongovernmental organization based in the United States, coordinates youth projects in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mozambique, and Uganda. It was one of three groups implementing the
African Youth Alliance project (2000-2005) in Botswana, Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. It publishes reports on country projects and has developed useful tools on youth-friendly services, provider training, and other topics.
This 69-page document provides information on the design, implementation, and monitoring of programs aimed at reducing the incidence of early marriage in Amhara and all of Ethiopia. Results and insights may prove helpful in contexts outside of Ethiopia as well. (2006)
This tool is a means with which to quantify the status of youth-friendly services (YFS) in a facility setting in order to issue a certification or a provisional certification for YFS. It can also be used as a way to compare progress made on instituting YFS when repeated and then by comparing the score at follow-up to that at baseline. (2004)
This tool helps program managers and clinicians determine the extent to which current reproductive health services are youth-friendly. Results from the tool can be used to tailor services to better meet the needs and preferences of young people. Under the African Youth Alliance (AYA) Project, Pathfinder conducted baseline assessments in Botswana, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ghana using this tool. (2003)
This four-page fact sheet describes efforts to prevent early marriage through advocacy efforts, paired with community and legal interventions through community-based reproductive health programs. (2006)
In response to the under-representation of female peer educators in the Geração BIZ Program, an adolescent sexual and reproductive health program in Mozambique, an operational research study tested an intervention model and found that new strategies for improving recruitment, participation, and retention of female peer educators succeeded in many ways. This 44-page report presents results of all phases of the study. (2006)
The PRACHAR Project offers lessons in how to improve the health and welfare of adolescent and young mothers and their children by changing traditional customs of early childbearing. This report offers an overview of the project’s successful efforts to reduce early marriage, to delay childbirth among young women, and to space subsequent births. (2005)
This report describes a three-year pilot program implemented in Bangladesh. The program provided support for primary and secondary school girls and paramedic training to secondary school graduates, and created community support for girls’ education and delaying marriage through advocacy meetings. (2006)
This tool provides guidance on how to conduct assessments using the youth-friendly services assessment tool (see item below), includes findings from assessments that were conducted under the African Youth Alliance (AYA) projects, and shares lessons learned from the assessment process. (2004)
Reproductive Health of Young Adults in India: The Road to Public Health (PDF)
This 12-page report describes the Reproductive Health of Young Adults in India (RHEYA) project. RHEYA sought to delay early marriage, increase the use of contraception by young couples to delay the first child and space subsequent children, and reduce the use of abortion as a method of contraception. (2006)
This 230-page tool with 13 training units explains the necessity of special training for adolescent reproductive health. Providers are sensitized to the needs of adolescents and are prepared to tailor reproductive health services so that they are youth-friendly. The module puts particular emphasis on dual protection against STI/HIV and pregnancy, safer sex, counseling, providing care to the pregnant adolescent, and dealing with issues of gender, sexual abuse, and sexual orientation. (2004)
This 48-page report describes how Pathfinder International and the Foundation for Community Development expanded youth services in one province in Mozambique, working as part of the larger multi-sectoral Geração Biz Project. (2004)
This 28-page report of an assessment in Tanzania, done as part of the African Youth Alliance project, includes principles on assessments of youth-friendly services, as well as results and recommendations of the specific assessment. (2003)
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