[afro-nets] Publications from the Safe Passages Website

["Claire Maxwell" <C.Maxwell@ioe.ac.uk>]

Publications from the Safe Passages Website
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Safe Passages to Adulthood - enabling young people to improve their sexual and reproductive health - http://www.safepassages.soton.ac.uk/

This major UK Department for International Development (DfID) funded research programme has developed a series of free resources aimed at increasing the capacity of policy-makers, practitioners and researchers working to promote young people's sexual health in resource-constrained settings.

1. A framework for action - HIV/AIDS prevention and care among especially vulnerable young people - http://www.safepassages.soton.ac.uk/pdfs/vulnerableyp.pdf

How, in the face of the growing HIV epidemic among young people, can policy-makers and practitioners in resource-constrained settings develop programmes that are likely to have the greatest impact?

This straightforward guide to priority setting outlines five core principles and three areas of action underpinning effective HIV/AIDS prevention programming with young people with an emphasis on contexts of special vulnerability.

2. Dynamic Contextual Analysis - http://www.safepassages.soton.ac.uk/pdfs/DCA2.pdf

This resource offers a new approach to understanding and developing work to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of young people.

After setting out the key principles, which inform a Dynamic Contextual Analysis, the guide outlines the three main steps in carrying out such an assessment of needs and opportunities.

Policy-makers, practitioners and researchers working to promote young people's sexual health in resource-constrained settings will find this resource particularly useful.

3. Working with young men to promote sexual and reproductive health - http://www.safepassages.soton.ac.uk/pdfs/workingwithymen.pdf

Gender is increasingly acknowledged as central to understanding young people's experiences of sexual relationships and health.

This good practice guide sets out:
o What we know about young men's experience of sexual health (informed by research done in different across the world)

o Different approaches to working with young men (illustrated by case studies of projects in Latin America, Africa and Asia)

Policy-makers, practitioners and researchers working to promote young people's sexual health in resource-constrained settings will find this resource particularly useful.

4. The role of education in promoting sexual and reproductive health - http://www.safepassages.soton.ac.uk/pdfs/educationreport.pdf

This good practice guide explores the challenges facing practitioners and policy-makers in resource-constrained countries who are trying to develop educational initiatives aimed at promoting the sexual and reproductive health of young people.

This resource sets out good practice guidelines for work in school settings, out-of-school contexts and in higher education.  These guidelines are illustrated by examples of innovative practice from across the world.

5. Preventing HIV/AIDS and promoting sexual health among especially vulnerable young people - http://www.safepassages.soton.ac.uk/pdfs/vulnerableyp.pdf

This good practice guide introduces practitioners, policy-makers and researchers to two distinct but related concepts - risk and vulnerability.  The guide explores how gender, race, culture, sexuality and social status all influence young people's experiences of sexual relationships and makes some more vulnerable to poor sexual health.

Using case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, this resource sets out guidelines to inform work with especially vulnerable young people (including young people who sell sex, young people who inject drugs, and young migrants and refugees).

6. Promoting young people's sexual and reproductive health: stigma, discrimination and human rights - http://www.safepassages.soton.ac.uk/pdfs/Stigma.pdf

Stigma, discrimination and the violation of human rights impact on people's experiences of sexual relationships, and on practitioners' and policy-makers' ability to promote young people sexual health.

This resource sets out how stigma and discrimination influence sexual health, identifies some principles of good practice, and introduces examples of innovative and effective practice with young people from Africa, Asia, Central and Latin America.

7. Learning from what young people say...about sex, relationships and health - http://www.safepassages.soton.ac.uk/pdfs/learningfromypsay.pdf

Finding out what young people think helps to ensure that programmes and policies are more likely to meet their needs.

The guide (developed to sit alongside the Dynamic Contextual Analysis resource) aims to support policy makers, programme planners and practitioners to find out more about young people's ideas, beliefs and feelings about sex, relationships and health.  This toolkit sets out how to involve young people and other partners in this process, suggests ways to collect information, analyse it, and present it in a way that is likely to influence programmes and policy.

Thanking you in advance.

Dr Claire Maxwell
Research Officer
Thomas Coram Research Unit
Institute of Education, University of London
mailto:C.Maxwell@ioe.ac.uk