• On The Threshold……..
  Key findings of Sexual Behaviour Research (SBR) conducted in an urban resettlement colony in New Delhi to study patterns of sexual expression among adolescent boys and girls and the socio-cultural context and other factors that influence them so as to identify their needs and design an intervention.
   
• From Descriptive Research To Intervention
  Documents the process of using SBR in planning and developing an intervention whose main objective was to enhance sexual health of adolescent girls in an urban resettlement colony by addressing their “immediate” environment through a community development approach
   
• Defining Me – Building Self Awareness
  Designing a Skills Building Module (SBM) for adolescent girls – documents the objectives, preparatory work, programme content and evaluation of the training programme.
   
• Narrowing The Generation Gap: Building Social Support For Adolescent Girls
  This 4 pager is on building social support for adolescent girls which was seen to be lacking in SBR and this gap between gatekeepers and adolescent girls made them more vulnerable to negative outcomes of sexual intimacy
   
• On The Screen – Delivering IEC Through Local Television
  One component of the Communication Package was delivering IEC through local television. This 4 pager captures the entire process of team building, training, problems faced and content for airing
   
• Adolescent Girls’ Reproductive & Sexual Health Intervention
  Details the progress of the adolescent sexual health model on the three components – Skills Building Module, Social Support and Communication Package
  
• Replication: Swaasthya Model – Adolescent Reproductive & Sexual Health
  The first 4 pager on the replication process of Swaasthya’s adolescent reproductive & sexual health model. It documents key issues that have arisen so far with regards to replication.

4 pagers on other components of Swaasthya’s reproductive health model

• Service Delivery through a comprehensive Reproductive and Sexual Health Package
  Documentation of Swaasthya’s clinical services which are integral part of Swaasthya’s framework on Reproductive Health program. ^New
   
• Creating “Safe” Spaces: Organising Women into Community Groups for Social Empowerment
  There is a strong relationship between empowerment of women & their health seeking behaviour. This 4 pager details Swaasthya’s efforts to integrate social development (to empower women) into its existing reproductive & sexual health programme
   
• Economics of Health: Creating & Integrating Micro-credit Groups In a Reproductive Health Model
  A woman with economic independence is better able to respond to her own health needs. As Swaasthya had been working on women’s reproductive & sexual health and had formed groups of women in the community, the introduction of micro-credit groups was a move towards women’s economic solvency to health seeking behaviour
   
• Finding Words: Need For Dialogue On Reproductive & Sexual Health
  Documentation of an intervention research study titled, “Enhancing Couple Communication in Reproductive Health” that Swaasthya had undertaken to develop approaches for enhancing effective communication between couples on reproductive health
   
• Social Mobilisation: Community’s Expanded Role – From Passive Acceptance to Being Stakeholders
  This 4 pager documents Swaasthya’s initial efforts to mobilize the community into active participants of the reproductive & sexual health programme envisaged for them by the organisation

Journeys Beyond ^New

A set of case studies (eight) which are stories of adolescent girls who participated in an intervention program by Swaasthya to address unmarried girls’ vulnerability to negative outcomes of sexual intimacy.

“They” speak about……

- Sexual abuse at home
- Talking sex and contraception to spouse
- Talking sex and reproduction to peer group
- Professionalism at workplace
- Victims by in-laws
- Setting boundaries in relationship
- Financial autonomy
- Dowry grooms

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