Planning for Life Final Evaluation
The Planning for Life project is a USAID/World Learning-funded initiative that sought to increase knowledge and skills around integrating Youth Reproductive Health (YRH) and Family Planning (FP) in youth development programs on three levels: among IYF staff, IYF’s Global Partner Network, and through pilot projects. Education and awareness activities were conducted at the IYF staff and partner levels to promote YRH/FP integration. The four pilot projects in Tanzania, India and the Philippines intended to integrate YRH and Family Planning into youth livelihood, education, and HIV prevention programs. As the Planning for Life project has come to an end, IYF has carried out a final evaluation which intends to appraise the project’s effectiveness on all three levels of implementation. Download this report at
Youth Reproductive Health and Family Planning Integration Toolkit
The Planning for Life Integration Toolkit represents all educational resources developed and collected over the two-year span of the project. The toolkit, in the form of a CD, includes a reproductive health and HIV/AIDS curriculum for Muslim youth, a curriculum on adolescent reproductive health and life skills, supplemental reproductive health and family planning lessons for organizations that have pre-existing life skills curricula, and fact sheets describing health challenges and opportunities in critical regions around the world. Additional resources from international NGOs, government and multilateral organizations incorporate best practices, lessons learned, and programmatic and technical advice.
Please email Julia Freed at youth@iyfnet.org with your mailing address if you would like the YRH & FP Integration Toolkit CD to be sent to you.
Integrating Youth Reproductive Health and Family Planning in HIV/AIDS Education
This issue of FieldNotes presents IYF’s experiences and lessons learned in Tanzania, where the Planning for Life project integrated youth reproductive health education and family planning services into its HIV prevention activities and trained local youth service providers to offer youth-friendly reproductive health services.
Integrating Reproductive Health Into Livelihood Programs in India
This case study documents the successes of IYF and Youthreach’s project Samriddhi, which sought to integrate Youth Reproductive Health and Family Planning education into livelihoods programs. Project Samriddhi piloted an Adolescent Reproductive Health curriculum and teaching aids that an evaluation found to be effective in providing accurate information to youth as a component within vocational training programs. The program was a component of IYF’s Planning for Life project, funded by USAID and World Learning.
Reproductive Health Lessons: A Supplemental Curriculum for Young People
The Youth Reproductive Health lessons are designed to supplement any life skills-based curriculum. The structure of the lessons, which encourages participatory youth learning, was adopted from the GE Foundation Life Skills for Employability Program implemented by IYF. The curriculum addresses Personal Values, Puberty, Reproduction Review, Teenage Pregnancy, Contraception, Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse, Gender Roles and Stereotypes, and Gender-Based Violence.
Field Notes: Peer Educator Retention Strategy
Peer education is a proven, effective method for affecting behavior change by moving individuals from basic awareness to discussing their beliefs and values, especially through participatory activities. However, most peer education programs
use volunteers, who are quick to start up activities but also quick to drop out. Finding ways to motivate and retain peer educators is a challenge shared by peer education programs everywhere. This Field Notes highlights some of the innovative ways that the International Youth Foundation and its partner organizations around the world are using to not only recruit peer educators but also to keep them actively committed to their important work.
Family Planning, HIV/AIDS &, and Gender Matrix: A Tool for Youth Reproductive Health Programming
The purpose of the matrix is to provide youth-serving organizations with a guide of topics on family planning, HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and gender; segmenting them by age and marital status.
The matrix can assist technical experts, program managers, health providers, peer educators and others to determine what topics and interventions best fit into their own respective programs while taking cultural paradigms into consideration.
The tool can be applied in any setting or program serving youth such as schools, outreach and peer education programs, community-based youth services or youth-friendly clinics.
A Framework for Integrating Reproductive Health and Family Planning into Youth Development Programs:
Positive youth-focused programs, combined with reproductive health information and services, can motivate youth to postpone sexual activity and practice safer sexual behavior. Evidence demonstrates that positive youth reproductive health outcomes are closely linked with educational and economic opportunities. The framework identifies guiding principles for integration of reproductive health, key programmatic elements and a organizational self-assessment tool.
Youth Reproductive Health Jeopardy
IYF’s ‘Youth Reproductive Health Jeopardy!’ can be used in TOTs or with professional staff to share knowledge on Youth Reproductive Health, Safe Motherhood, Family Planning, Sexual and Gender-based Violence and HIV/AIDS/STIs.
Click here to download and play Youth Reproductive Health Jeopardy!
Youth Reproductive Health Fact Sheets:
Click here for more youth reproductive health resources and tools.
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