Paper details

Paper authors	Richard Sandison
In panel on	Inclusion of Disadvantaged Groups in Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Reduction
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

UNICEF data shows that 1.2 billion adolescents aged 10-19 years today make up 16 % of the world’s population1 yet, adolescents are chronically overlooked in emergencies and their capacities and aspirations often remain unrecognized in humanitarian action. Plan International’s Adolescent Programming Toolkit2 has been designed based on research on inclusive programming approaches and incorporates global approaches including The Global Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action and UNHCR’s Age, Diversity and Gender approach. This toolkit promotes adolescent-responsive programming and offers a range of adolescent-responsive tools with special attention to girls and at-risk adolescents.

This toolkit was piloted and used to support participatory consultations and programme design with adolescent girls and young mothers from South Sudanese refugee and host communities in Ethiopia and Uganda. The consultations used mixed methods with an emphasis on qualitative data with 255 adolescent girls and young mothers, using Visioning, a group-based consultation activity that helps girls to explore their vision for the future, direct and longer-term needs and priorities, as well as existing barriers to realising their vision. These consultations informed the design of a three-year multi-sectoral project. Key lessons learned include the importance of using girl centred participatory tools and involving adolescent girls as researchers.

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