Strengthening the capacity of youth-serving partners in Latin America and the Caribbean

FCI's regional initiative aims to improve the reproductive health and rights of young people, particularly in poor and indigenous communities, in Latin America and the Caribbean. We work with community based organizations as well as youth-serving networks and organizations to strengthen their ability to reach young people with vital information and services. The project began in 2005 and is funded by UNFPA’s Latin American and Caribbean division.

FCI provides technical assistance to strengthen the institutional capacity of community based organizations to increase young people’s access to sexual and reproductive health services and information. As part of this effort, we have developed a number of important tools in Spanish, available to download:

The Methodological Guide for Participatory Needs Assessment

The Methodological Guide for Participatory Needs Assessment is a Spanish-language toolkit adapted from FCI’s Rural Girls Project conducted in West Africa.
Participatory tools to assess the unmet sexual and reproductive health needs of indigenous and rural young people; allowing community groups to involve youth directly in mapping their issues and identifying their priorities.
A report is available of the findings and recommendations from the participatory needs assessment conducted in Beni, Bolivia.

Género, generaciones y derechos: nuevos enfoques de
trabajo con jóvenes 

A toolkit to guide organizations and programs in developing strategies to reach young people, with an emphasis on rights. The tool kit includes a series of guides on rights, gender, generational issues, and others.


Tú, tu vida, tu sueños: un manual para gente jóven

A manual for young people, as well as teachers, peer educators, counselors, and others who work with youth.  Based on You, Your Life, Your Dreams, which was first developed by FCI in Anglophone Africa and since adapted and distributed worldwide, this book increases young people’s knowledge of sexual and reproductive health issues in a friendly, age-appropriate way, and has been extensively pre-tested by hundreds of young people in the region. (index and chapter 10 available)
         
Monitoreo y evaluatión de proyetos de salud sexual y  reproductiva con jóvenes

A manual  to guide programs’ monitoring and evaluation of their youth programming.



For more information on this project, please feel free to contact us at LAC@fcimail.org. In addition, we would be interested to hear about the experiences of organizations using the tools listed above.