Description:

World Vision's Accelerated Hope and Development for Urban Adolescents (AHADI) is a gender- transformative project (2022-2029), putting adolescent and youth (A&Y) girls and boys, in all their diversity, at the centre, to support the realization of their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and access to health services in Dar es Salaam and Dodoma cities. Funded by Global Affairs Canada, AHADI is implemented by World Vision Tanzania and three local rights-based partners. AHADI is empowering A&Y as change agents in SRHR through the gender equality-focused AHADI Impact Model (AHADIIM) that fosters inclusive leadership, and outreach to key populations (unhoused youth, substance users and youth at risk). AHADI is also conducting adolescent-friendly and gender-responsive (AFGR) health systems strengthening, by providing training, supportive supervision, and mentorship to health care providers, alongside refurbishment. This session will share urban A&Y SRHR programming lessons, from empowering participants with enhanced SRHR; economic empowerment work that has reduced A&YSRHR-vulnerabilities and has increased confidence, and gender-responsive health system strengthening for enhanced A&Y services uptake.

Session participants will learn from AHADI's experience in conducting inclusive and gender equality-focused A&Y SRHR programming in the urban setting, as well as the related best practices that have enabled AHADI to reach 50,850 (27,960 girls; 22,890 boys) thus far; with SRHR-related behaviour change and economic empowerment. With respect to adolescent leadership, AHADI ensures ongoing participant-led feedback and evaluation mechanisms with the goal of co-creating strategies to deepen adolescent engagement and leadership.

This workshop will be led by an AHADI staff member from Tanzania with potential remote adolescent joining to share. Workshop methods: • Engaging participants in an AHADIIM interactive activity • Sharing entrepreneurial items made by A&Y with workshop participants

The impact of the workshop is to support practitioners to understand: • A&Y thrive when they are collectively empowered, can build connections to support one another, and are empowered to change their lives and make impacts in their community • Economic empowerment activities, in addition to reducing SRHR vulnerabilities, enhance adolescent self-confidence and leadership skills • Interactive sports and games build participant and community engagement, while providing additional opportunities for SRHR awareness-raising