Enhancing Utilization of the Findings from the Youth Reproductive Health Project
The Council provided technical assistance to Senegal’s MOH to implement programs to improve adolescent reproductive health.
FRONTIERS provided technical assistance to help Senegal's Ministry of Health (MOH) and Ministry of Youth develop the capacity to plan programs for adolescents based on lessons learned during the experimental phases of a project designed to improve young people's reproductive health.
Following the initial study, adolescent health was established as a reproductive health priority in Senegal, as it was thought to have the most sustainable impact on overarching goals to increase contraceptive prevalence and reduce maternal mortality in Senegal.
Training tools used in the pilot project were revised and adopted as national documents by the MOH. In September 2006, the MOH in collaboration with the World Health Organization and the Population Council held a conference to release a new policy document that serves as a guide for program leaders implementing activities at the national and local levels. In 2007, FRONTIERS provided technical assistance to the MOH to further its plan of action at the central and regional levels, which was submitted to the Division of STI/HIV/AIDS (MOH) for funding by the World Bank.
The Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Sport, and the Ministry of Youth integrated the adolescent reproductive health (ARH) model into various programs such as school-based interventions, "Espaces Jeunes," the master's degree program in sports education, and a training curriculum for peer educators.
FRONTIERS collaborated with the MOH in creating "technical forms" to further assist planning of ARH activities at the district level throughout Senegal and promoted the Senegal model to establish cooperation among CAs, NGOs, and international agencies in order to successfully scale up the program in Senegal and replicate it in francophone West African countries.
Enhancing utilization of the findings from the youth reproductive health project in Senegal [Executive summary in English; full report in French] (PDF)
Diop,Nafissatou J.; Diagne,Anta Fall
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2008
Multisectoral youth RH interventions: The scale-up process in Kenya and Senegal (PDF)
Joyce,Stephanie; Askew,Ian; Diagne,Anta Fall; Diop,Nafissatou J.; Evelia,Humphres
FRONTIERS Program Brief (no. 13)
Publication date: 2008
Grandir en harmonie: Curriculum d'animation des pairs-éducateurs et des aides-ados ou jeunes écoutant [Growing up in harmony: Animation curriculum for peer educators and adolescent helpers or young counselors] (PDF)
Publication date: 2007
Grandir en harmonie: Document de références [Growing up in harmony: Reference document] (PDF)
Publication date: 2007
Grandir en harmonie: Guide de l'utilisateur [Growing up in harmony: User's guide] (PDF)
Publication date: 2007
Grandir en harmonie: Les questions/réponses les plus fréquentes posées par les adolescent(e)s [Growing up in harmony: Adolescents' most frequently asked questions and responses to them] (PDF)
Publication date: 2007
Mainstreaming adolescent reproductive health in Senegal: Enhancing utilization of the findings from the youth reproductive health project (PDF)
Diop,Nafissatou J.; Diagne,Anta Fall
FRONTIERS Report
Publication date: 2007
Senegal: Mainstreaming adolescent health: Building on local support systems (PDF)
FRONTIERS OR Summary (no. 64)
Publication date: 2007
Improving the reproductive health of adolescents in Senegal (PDF)
Diop,Nafissatou J.; Bathidja,Heli; Toure,Isseu Diop; Dieng,Thierno; Mane,Babacar; RamaRao,Saumya; Adamchak,Susan E.; Wong,Emelita; Ndoye,Adama; Sy,Aboubacry; Fall,Babacar
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2004
Senegal: Involve community networks in adolescent reproductive health (PDF)
FRONTIERS OR Summary (no. 35)
Publication date: 2003
Améliorer la santé des adolescents au Sénégal: Et si on en parlait [Improve adolescent health in Senegal: And if one speaks of it]
FRONTIERS Research Update
Publication date: 2000
Project Stats
Location: Senegal
Program(s):
Reproductive Health
Topic(s):
Scaling up interventions
Sexuality education
Duration: 1/2004 - 8/2007
Non-Council collaborators:
Senegal Ministry of Health
Senegal Ministry of Youth
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