Self-guided training for programme coordination
Orientation to the Adolescent kit materials, to enable choosing, adapting and using them with and for their programme teams, communities and adolescents
Programme coordinators who design, manage, coordinate, monitor or otherwise support programmes or interventions using the Adolescent Kit can read the guidance and watch the videos on these webpages to orient themselves to the Adolescent Kit materials, then choose, adapt and use them with and for their programme teams, communities and adolescents.
1. About the Adolescent Kit
Get an overview of all of the guidance, tools, activities and supplies in the Adolescent Kit contents to prepare to choose, adapt and use the materials that will be helpful for your programme team and for the adolescents in your context.
2. Understanding adolescents in emergencies
Learn more about the situations, needs, challenges and opportunities of adolescents living and growing in humanitarian contexts globally to better understand the young people in your context.
>> Guide: Understanding adolescents in humanitarian situations
3. Working with and for diverse adolescents
Learn more about how the Adolescent Kit can be used for programmes for adolescents’ psychosocial wellbeing, life skills development, participation and engagement, and involvement in peacebuilding, and how the kit is designed to promote gender equity and inclusion for adolescents with and without disabilities.
4. The ten key competencies
The Adolescent Kit for expression and innovation supports adolescents in developing and using ten key competencies for emotional wellbeing, healthy relationships and developing to their full potential. Learn more about the ten key competencies that are the outcome framework of the Adolescent Kit, and explore guides and tools to measure adolescents’ development and use of competencies as they participate in your programme.
5. The ten key approaches
The Ten key approaches are the principles and methodology of the Adolescent Kit. Explore the Ten key approaches to discuss how everyone on your team will engage positively with adolescents in ways that uphold their rights and use effective practices to support them as they develop and use the Ten key competencies.
6. Explore the Activity Box
The Activity Box is the “heart” of the Adolescent Kit, with 100 different activities for adolescents with different interests and goals. Search and browse 100 different activities for adolescents as you prepare to work with facilitators to choose, adapt and plan the activities that are most engaging, relevant and helpful for adolescents in your contexts.
>> Activity Box
7. Decide how to use the Adolescent Kit
Once you have had a chance to learn more about the Adolescent Kit, decide how you will use it in a new or ongoing intervention, beginning by finding and choosing a programme entry point.
8. Investigate adolescents’ situations
Learn more about the situations, needs and priorities of adolescents in your context. Review the information already available to you, explore your programming context and collaborate with adolescents to learn more as you plan programmes with and for them.
9. Reach out and engage adolescents
Find, adapt and use strategies to reach and engage especially the most vulnerable and hardest-to-reach adolescents in your programme context. Use monitoring tools to keep track of different adolescents’ participation and monitor your progress in reaching diverse groups of adolescents.
10. Select a place and time for activities
Choose places and times for adolescents’ activities that are accessible, safe and conducive for them to learn and have fun. Identify spaces in your host community that you can borrow or share to bring programme activities closer to adolescents. Involve adolescents in making borrowed or dedicated spaces feel more welcoming and comfortable.
11. Build your team
Choose and collaborate with an implementing partner that shares your principles and goals for adolescents. Identify, recruit, train and support the facilitators who will lead activities with adolescents.
12. Plan activity phases for adolescents
Using activities and tools from the Activity Box and the Four Activity Phases, plan curricula for adolescents that address their socioemotional and learning needs, and help them to take action in their communities. Or, support facilitators in choosing activities with and for adolescents using the Four Activity Phase approach.
13. Involve adolescents and the community
Collaborate with adolescents and adults in your host community to design, adapt and implement your programme. Engage local adults as resources to support adolescents as they learn and take action together.
14. Connect adolescents with support
Prepare your team and your facilitators to connect adolescents with support and services related to their mental and physical health, safety, protection, legal and human rights, and help them to find other information and educational programmes based on their interests, hopes and goals.
15. Gather, procure, organize and use supplies
Learn more about the UNICEF Supply Kit available to UNICEF country teams and partners. Procure and build your own Supply Kit if basic supplies are available locally in your programme context. Manage supplies and materials with adults and adolescents in your host community.
>> Supplies
16. Translating the Adolescent Kit and finding materials in other languages
Find all Adolescent Kit guides, tools and activities in English, Arabic, French Spanish or Farsi, and selected materials in other languages.
Prepare to translate Adolescent Kit guides, tools and activities into a new language and find helpful resources suggestions to use in that process.
17. Prepare for programmes to transition or end
Collaborate with adolescents and adults in your host community to plan for programme transitions as the humanitarian context changes. Adapt approaches and activities, integrate interventions into local institutions, or close temporary programmes based on adolescents’ and communities’ evolving needs.
