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:
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Plan and set goals for running your
intervention with the Kit.
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Integrate the Adolescent Circles approach
into child protection, education, youth development and other
humanitarian programmes for adolescent girls and boys.
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Target the most vulnerable adolescent girls and
boys
with your intervention.
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Find and create safe, welcoming spaces for
adolescents.
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Build a strong team to run your intervention.
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Connect adolescents to adults, their
communities and useful information and support.
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Manage, store and replace supplies for use in
adolescents’ activities.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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