A360 Tools & Resources

 
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A360 Contraceptive Key Messages
A360 Contraceptive Key Messages

This resource provides contraceptive key messages and method descriptions.

From Innovation to Scale: Advancing the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young People
From Innovation to Scale: Advancing the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young People

This 2016 report gives examples of the different ways that PSI is doing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) work with adolescents and youth. It was funded by USAID.

Making Your Health Services Youth-Friendly
Making Your Health Services Youth-Friendly

This 2014 guide for program planners and implementers was developed by PSI and IntraHealth International and funded by USAID.

Tailoring Contraceptive Discussion with Adolescents
Tailoring Contraceptive Discussion with Adolescents

This resource guides contraceptive discussions with adolescents, using the Choice Book.

A360 Counseling Algorithm
A360 Counseling Algorithm

This A360 tool helps guide a discussion around which contraceptive method to choose.

A360 Regional Insights
A360 Regional Insights

The A360 consortium and its local partners conducted formative research to gain an in-depth understanding of adolescents’ needs, barriers, and motivations to use contraception; develop insights into their lives, hopes, and desires; and identify adolescents’ key influencers.

Ethiopia Formative Design Research Protocol
Ethiopia Formative Design Research Protocol

Using a qualitative approach, A360 combined elements of Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) techniques, ethnographic data collection, and human-centered design. This design research protocol provides details about our methodology in Ethiopia.

Infographic: Regional Insights
Infographic: Regional Insights

This Regional Insights & Design Opportunities infographic illustrates the socio-ecological model that puts the adolescent girl at the center.

A360 Overview
A360 Overview

This brochure summarizes A360's original vision, phases, and theory of change.

A Girl with a Plan!
A Girl with a Plan!

Reimagining contraceptive services with and for adolescent girls in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania unlocks hope… and rapid contraceptive uptake. This two-pager explains A360’s process, findings and impact.

Evidence-Based Adaptive Implementation
Evidence-Based Adaptive Implementation

Adaptive Implementation is all about staying curious to continually refine your interventions as you implement. This approach, detailed in this graphic, ensures we stay true to our end goal: delivering interventions that resonate with beneficiaries and the health systems that will ultimately own and sustain them.

A360's Approach to Reframing the Benefits of Contraceptives
A360's Approach to Reframing the Benefits of Contraceptives

A360 is flipping traditional family planning messaging on its head— building from what girls say they want to deliver SRH services when and how they need.

The Adolescents 360 Blueprint for Change
The Adolescents 360 Blueprint for Change

Adolescents 360 listens to what girls want to deliver sexual and reproductive health solutions tailored to what girls say they need. Our programmatic blueprint provides a practical guide for replication—with the flexibility to tailor to context in partnership with young people.

Smart Start: Pathway to Care
Smart Start: Pathway to Care

Smart Start galvanizes adolescent girls and their husbands to embrace pregnancy spacing for its health and economic benefits. In Ethiopia, our girl-defined solution drives joint decision making between young couples— resulting in rapid uptake of a modern contraceptive method.

A360 Video Resources

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What is the A360 Approach?
Gender Webinar

July 2016

Inception to Inspiration

October 2016

Deep Dive into Ethiopia Use & Need

July 2016

Youth Engagement Webinar

August 2016

A360 Reading List

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How to find a wonderful idea
How to find a wonderful idea

We love this video about the important components of innovation. Where does OK Go come up with ideas like dancing in zero gravity, performing in ultra slow motion or constructing a warehouse-sized Rube Goldberg machine for their music videos? In this TED talk, OK Go's lead singer and director Damian Kulash takes us inside the band's creative process, showing us how to look for wonder and surprise.

The Innovator's Blind Spot, Medium
The Innovator's Blind Spot, Medium

"What is innovation? How do you know it when you see it? How do you know whether it’s garden variety or, well, bonkers variety?" Read this article by Lisa Baird that is a part of IDEO Stories.

Design Kit, IDEO.org
Design Kit, IDEO.org

IDEO.org's Design Kit explains human-centered design and offers a field guide, case studies, resources, and more.

The secret Facebook group of Nigerian women, BBC
The secret Facebook group of Nigerian women, BBC

Female IN or Fin is a "secret" Facebook group that has recently clocked up over a million members, largely from Nigeria. It is one of Facebook's fastest-growing communities and has become such a phenomenon that recently Mark Zuckerberg met with Fin founder Lola Omolola.