Arlington, VA
This meeting took place to review YouthNet's technical work over the past year and to discuss new avenues for the future. A meeting report will be published shortly. To view the PowerPoint slides presented, please click on the appropriate session title on the meeting agenda below.
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Update on YouthNet
YouthNet Management – JoAnn Lewis, Senior Vice President, FHI
YouthNet: 2005 and Beyond - Tonya Nyagiro, Director, YouthNet
Technical Working Groups/Cross-Cutting Areas - Ed Scholl, Deputy Director for Technical Services, YouthNet
Education: Focus on Peer Education
Moderator: Theobald Mukena, Walvis Bay Youth Forum,
Namibia
Overview of YouthNet's Work
Bill Finger, Knowledge Management Coordinator, YouthNet
Youth Peer Education: The Hunt for Core Components
Gary Svenson, Senior Research Associate, YouthNet
Peer Education Gone Global: Y-PEER and Technical Leadership
Maryanne Pribila, Program Officer, YouthNet
Hally Mahler, Associate Director for BCC and Youth Participation, YouthNet
Introduction to Services
Cindy Geary, Research Coordinator, YouthNet
VCT and PMTCT Services Research and VCT Guide
Heidi Reynolds, Senior Research Associate, YouthNet
Post Abortion Care Research and Training
Donna McCarraher, Senior Research Associate, YouthNet
HIV/AIDS and RH Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors: A Picture of Iringa Youth
Barbara Janowitz, Director of Health Services Research, FHI
Moving the Iringa Research to Practice: Discussion and Recommendations
Jane Schueller, Senior Technical Advisor, YouthNet
Global Media Moving into New Frontiers: Africa and Reproductive Health Issues, Finally on the Plate
Hally Mahler, Associate Director for BCC and Youth Participation, YouthNet
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Cross-Cutting Themes: Gender and Youth Participation
Moderator: Karina Vartanova, UNICEF, Moscow
Introduction to Crosscutting Themes & YouthNet: What Does Gender Have to Do With It?
Jane Schueller, Senior Technical Advisor, YouthNet
Now That Youth Are Participating …
Maxwell Marx, Youth Participation Coordinator, YouthNet
Concluding Session: Panel Discussion on Future Directions in Youth HIV/AIDS and RH Programming and Research
Moderator: Martin Foreman, Chair, YouthNet TAG
Panelists: Shanti Conly, YouthNet Technical Advisor
(USAID), Arie Passov (TAG member), Karina
Vartanova, (TAG member), Iqbal Shah (WHO)
Issues for Panel Discussion:
1. What can we do now to ensure continued use of
YouthNet's research results, publications, tools and lessons
learned beyond the life of the project?
2. What suggestions do you have for donors in terms of
future directions in youth RH and HIV/AIDS programming?
3. What are the priorities for future research in youth RH and
HIV/AIDS?
