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Girl-Centered Program Design: A Toolkit to Develop, Strengthen & Expand Adolescent Girls Programs

Complete toolkit (PDF; lower-resolution PDF)

Front matter and introduction (PDF; lower-resolution PDF)

Section 1: Which Girls and Why (PDF; lower-resolution PDF)
Chapter 1: Which Girls Do You Want to Work With?
Chapter 2: Needs Assessments—Understanding the Girls You Are Working With

Section 2: Determining Program Structure (PDF; lower-resolution PDF)
Chapter 3: Core Elements of the Safe Spaces Model—"Creating the Pot"
Chapter 4: Recruitment—How Do You Get the Girls You Want into Your Program
Chapter 5: Leadership Development and Mentoring
Chapter 6: Working with Families and Critical Adults

Section 3: Determining Program Content (PDF; lower-resolution PDF)
Chapter 7: The Asset Building Approach
Chapter 8: Economic Strengthening Programming
Chapter 9: Reproductive Health and HIV Information & Clinical Services
Chapter 10: Addressing Sexual and Gender Based Violence
Chapter 11: Reaching Extremely Vulnerable Groups of Adolescent Girls

Section 4: Monitoring & Evaluation (PDF; lower-resolution PDF)
Chapter 12: Monitoring
Chapter 13: Evaluation

Section 5: Annexes (PDF; lower-resolution PDF)
Tools/Handouts

Resources (PDF)


Tools presented in the toolkit are available as Word documents:

To request a hard copy, please send an e-mail to kaustrian@popcouncil.org.

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