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:
- Chapter 1: Sample coverage exercise
- Chapter 2: Cash flow tool; Community safety mapping tool; "A day in the life" tool; Ranking tool
- Chapter 3: Safety scan tools
- Chapter 5: Sample schedule for training of trainers
- Chapter 6: Sample agenda for parent meeting; Sample topic guide for focus group discussion with parents
- Chapter 7: Asset cards (version 1, version 2); Asset list; Asset timeline
- Chapter 10: Preparedness worksheet for responding to SGBV
- Chapter 12: Intake register questions; Sample meeting/activity log; Sample intake register 1; Sample intake register 2
- Chapter 13: Evaluation planning worksheet; Sample program evaluation form; Sample asset measuring questions; Sample training participant evaluation form
To request a hard copy, please send an e-mail to kaustrian@popcouncil.org.
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