Two new publications on Youth and Sexual and Reproductive Health
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1) "Hands On! A Manual for Working with Youth on Sexual and Reproduc-
tive Health"
2) "Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young People: Experiences from
Technical Cooperation Projects"
The Deutsche Gesellschaft f�r Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH
has been actively promoting young people's reproductive health and
rights previous to but especially since the 1994 International Con-
ference on Population and Development. Currently, GTZ is supporting
some 40 projects, which address adolescent Sexual and Reproductive
Health (SRH) at different levels and scales in the contexts of
health, education or youth promotion and with a special focus on pre-
vention.
The experiences drawn from such interventions have been compiled by
GTZ�s supraregional project "Innovative Approaches in Reproductive
Health" in a recipe-like manual with a view to disseminating lessons
learnt. "Hands On! A Manual for Working with Youth on Sexual and Re-
productive Health" lays out useful methods and approaches to support
people working with young people in the development and implementa-
tion of SRH measures in a practical way. It consists of 16 separate
yet complementary papers written largely by practitioners from the
field with a focus on giving examples and checklists.
Part one, Methods, consists of a step-by-step guide to a situation
analysis, description of methods for baseline data collection, tools
for participatory rapid appraisal, a chapter on action research and
indicators for monitoring and evaluation. Part two, Approaches, con-
tains e.g. checklists for peer education and youth-friendly services,
guidelines for the development of IEC material, theatre plays, or
sports activities, and how to support youth organisations and cross-
sectoral networking.
"Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young People: Experiences from
Technical Cooperation Projects" comprises a selection of 43 project
examples representing GTZ projects that are concerned with the SRH of
young people all over the world. By interrelating experiences from a
variety of projects, the GTZ Supraregional Project "Innovative Ap-
proaches in Reproductive Health" reflects current practice in German
technical cooperation and intends to stimulate an exchange of know-
how and ideas between projects and individuals. Brief project de-
scriptions covering background information, project approach, results
and experiences as well as an outlook on future plans are written by
projects members and make up the bulk of this publication.
To obtain copies of above publications, contact:
Angelika Deigner
Supraregional Project "Reproductive Health"
Deutsche Gesellschaft f�r Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH
Division 4320 (Health)
Postfach 5180
65726 Eschborn, Germany
mailto:angelika.deigner@gtz.de
or download the publications as Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) files from:
http://www.gtz.de/srh/english/biblio/biblio1.html
Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young People - 1.2 MB
Hands On! - 2.3 MB, can be downloaded chapter by chapter
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