Tools and Guides

The following tools and guides have been designed to improve the ability to create adolescent sexual and reproductive health programs and policies.

FOCUS Tool Series:

1. Listening to Young Voices: Facilitating Participatory Appraisals on Reproductive Health with Adolescents
English PDF

2. Assessing and Planning for Youth-Friendly Reproductive Health Services
(cover)
  Workbook 1 (cover, Part A, Part B) 
  Workbook 2 (cover, Part A, Part B)
  Workbook 3 (cover, Part A, Part B)
  Workbook 4 (cover, Part A, Part B)

3. Getting to Scale in Young Adult Reproductive Health Programs
English PDF

4. Developmentally Based Interventions and Strategies: Promoting Reproductive Health and Reducing Risk among Adolescents
English PDF

5. A Guide to Monitoring and Evaluating
Adolescent Reproductive Health Programs

English:

Part 1: The How-To's of Monitoring and Evaluation (as a single document, PDF, 3MB)

• Cover/Acknowledgments/Contents/Intro (PDF, 319K)
• Chapter 1: Concerns About Monitoring and Evaluating ARH Programs (PDF, 219K)
• Chapter 2: A Framework for ARH Program Monitoring and Evaluation (PDF, 282K)
• Chapter 3: Developing an ARH Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (PDF, 424K)
• Chapter 4: Indicators (PDF, 186K)
• Chapter 5: Evaluation Designs To Assess Program Impact (PDF, 283K)
• Chapter 6: Sampling (PDF, 178K)
• Chapter 7: Data Collection and the M&E Workplan (PDF, 276K)
• Chapter 8: Analyzing M&E Data (PDF, 216K)
• Chapter 9: Using and Disseminating M&E Results (PDF, 116K)
• Chapter 10: Tables of ARH indicators
  • Indicator Table I: Program Design Indicators (PDF, 235K)
  • Indicator Table II: Program Systems Development and Functioning Indicators (PDF, 172K)
  • Indicator Table III: Program Implementation Indicators (PDF, 156K)
  • Indicator Table IV: Program Intervention Outcome Indicators (PDF, 218K)
• Glossary (PDF, 191K)
• Bibliography (PDF, 193K)
• Appendix 1: Sampling Schemes for Core Data Collection Strategies (PDF, 210K)
• Appendices 2-4 (How to Calculate Sample Size Requirements, Reference Shelf, and Evaluation Web Sites) (PDF, 235K)

Part 2: Instruments and Questionnaires (as a single document, PDF, 1MB):

• Part II At a Glance (PDF, 76K)
• Instruments 1-5 (Checklists, Tally Sheets, Reporting Forms, ARH Coalition Questionnaire, and Composite Indices) (PDF, 201K)
• Instruments 6-8 (Inventory of Facilities and Services, Observation Guide for Counseling and Clinical Procedures, and Interview Guide for Staff Providing RH Services) (PDF, 225K)
• Instruments 9-11 (Guide for Client Exit Interview, Questionnaire for Debriefing Mystery Clients, and Community Questionnaire) (PDF, 164K)
• Instrument 12: Comprehensive Youth Survey (PDF, 354K)
• Instruments 13-15 (Focus Group Discussion Guide for In-School Adolescents, Assessing Coalition Effectiveness Worksheet, and Parents of Youth Questionnaire) (PDF, 78K)

French:

• Introduction
• Chapitres 1-8
• Chapitres 9-10
• Glossaire et questionnaires

Spanish:

• Capítulos 1-6
• Capítulos 7-10
• Instrumentos 1-8
• Instrumentos 9-15
• Glosario, Bibliografía y Anexos

Reproductive Health Programs for Young Adults: SCHOOL-BASED PROGRAMS (Birdthistle, 1997)
English PDF

Reproductive Health Outreach Programs for Young Adults (Senderowitz, 1997)
English PDF