Programme Coordinators’ Guidance
The Programme Coordinators’ Guide provides guidance and tools
for establishing and running interventions for adolescents with
the Adolescent Kit.
The Programme Coordinators’ Guide outlines how to:
- Plan and set goals for running your intervention with the Kit.
- Integrate the Adolescent Circles approach into child protection, education, youth development and other humanitarian programmes for adolescent girls and boys.
- Target the most vulnerable adolescent girls and boys with your intervention.
- Find and create safe, welcoming spaces for adolescents.
- Build a strong team to run your intervention.
- Connect adolescents to adults, their communities and useful information and support.
- Manage, store and replace supplies for use in adolescents’ activities.
- Prepare for interventions using the Kit to transition or end.
Who is the Programme Coordinators’ Guide for?
The Programme Coordinators’ Guide is for programme managers, officers, specialists or other staff who will design, set up or manage a programme or intervention using the activities, tools and supplies in the Adolescent Kit.
As you get started, remember…
- The steps may happen in a different order, or even all at once. Try to include all of the steps as you plan and manage your intervention with the Adolescent Kit, but don’t worry if they happen in a different sequence.
- Do what makes sense for adolescent girls and boys in your community. The Programme Coordinator’s Guide does not provide hard and fast rules for running an intervention with the Kit… it’s simply guidance.
- Be flexible! Adolescents’ situations, needs and interests can change rapidly in humanitarian situations, so be ready to adapt your intervention as you go. This could mean changing the time and location of activities, expanding or reducing your programme, selecting a new partner, targeting new groups of adolescents, recruiting different facilitators, or adapting your goals, activities and approaches.
- Do No Harm. Consider the potential risks involved at each step of planning and managing your intervention with the Adolescent Kit – and make sure that adolescent girls and boys aren’t unintentionally harmed by your work.
- Integrate the Kit into your ongoing initiatives. The Kit is not an end in itself – it can strengthen a range of programmes with and for adolescents, help sustain your interventions over the long term, and engage implementing partners who support other related activities.
Download the Programme Coordinators’ Guide
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