In October 2017, we attended the International Association for Adolescent Health, 11th World Congress on Adolescent Health in New Delhi, India. We were really excited to contribute to the global dialogue on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, particularly given our work on the Adolescents 360 (A360) programme. Itad, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Avenir Health are working together to evaluate and develop learning from A360.
At the conference we presented two posters, with early findings from the process evaluation and the designing of the outcome evaluation of A360, plus some reflections on the challenges of designing this type of evaluation for a human-centred designed (HCD) programme:
- Evaluation of Adolescents 360: Building the evidence base in the application of human-centred design in adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH).
- Embracing uncertainty: outcome evaluation of a human-centred designed programme for adolescent health
At the conference, both implementers and evaluators of ASRH programmes were very interested in
There was great excitement and buzz about the potential for HCD to increase the impact of ASRH programmes. The HCD approach shifts away from a typical model, where programmers design programmes, often in isolation from the end-user, to one where adolescents and adults from a range of disciplines design programmes together – conducting formative research as inspiration for the design, prototyping concepts and ideas directly with adolescents and iterating based on feedback from the adolescents themselves.
Watch this space for more findings from the evaluation!