Evidence and Rights Based Planning and Support Tool for SRHR/HIV Prevention Interventions for Young People

The development of this tool began in 2006, when organisations in the Netherlands and the Global South identified a need to make more use of the evidence of effective sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) education for young people. Based on the premise that experience and evidence gained from work done all over the world on SRHR education shows what does contribute to quality and what doesn’t, this tool intends to provide evidence, in a way that is useful for organisations who are working in the day-to-day practice of SRHR education for young people but have limited time and resources. The aim of the tool is to encourage people who develop SRHR education to reflect on why certain decisions in programme development and implementations were made about the reasons why their programme and its implementation are the way they are.

The tool can be used to analyse or plan a variety of SRHR interventions: school and non-school-based; large and small; with a focus on HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and/or pregnancy; designed for older or younger people, for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), and/or children and young people who are at work. Organisations can use the tool for the analysis of existing interventions to identify what is already going well and what needs improvement. This tool has been structured using the Intervention Mapping model, a health promotion model consisting of 6 steps. One of the key features of the model is the behaviour change approach. It can be used as an add-on to the Logical Framework Approach (LFA).

Two other documents have been written to go with this tool. One is the Intervention Mapping Toolkit for Planning Sexuality Education Programmes. It translates academic models, evidence, theories, and other information into a ‘cookbook’, providing many tips, experiences, and tools that have been used in projects in Africa and Asia. The second document is a summary of this planning and support tool, Checklist for Programme Officers, which is designed for donor and other organisations when they are developing or assessing project proposals.

Contents of this tool include:

1. Introduction
   
2. Rights and Evidence
   
3. Planning and Support Tool
   
4. Background to the Characteristics: A. Involvement (step 1); B. Needs assessment/situation analysis; C. Objectives (step 3); D. Evidence-based intervention design (step 4); E. Adoption and implementation (step 5); and F. Monitoring & evaluation (step 6)