The CATALYST Consortium State-of-the-Art Family Planning & Reproductive Health Mission: The CATALYST Consortium delivers on the Cairo Agenda through synergistic partnerships and state-of-the-art technical leadership in sexual and reproductive health.

Institutional mentoring for the exchange of relevant knowledge and technology among developing countries through: Observational visits TA Training South-to-South approach led by PROFAMILIA-Colombia South-to-South Approach

Partners in Module Development PROFAMILIA/Colombia Expertise in: delivering ARH services institutionalizing gender and rights advocating for RH CEDPA Expertise in: participatory methodologies and adult learning training and experience in gender, advocacy and adolescent SRH

Process Builds on PROFAMILIA’s training modules Redesigned Pilot tested Revised as necessary Translated from Spanish to English Consultant review and revision Peer Review

Catalyst training modules  Adolescents (pilot August 02)  Advocacy (pilot August 02)  Rights and Gender (pilot February 03)

MANAGING ADOLESCENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROGRAMS: Purpose To build the capacity of professionals in managerial positions to: Design programs that respond to the ASRH rights and needs of young people Efficiently and effectively manage all aspects of youth programs including programmatic, financial and administrative To achieve this, participants develop strategies and interventions at the national, local, organizational, community, family and individual levels.

Intended users : Youth serving program managers’ and coordinators with limited experience managing youth programs. MANAGING ADOLESCENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROGRAMS

Cross Cutting Themes Gender Human Rights Youth/Adult Partnerships Sustainability

Content: Defining and Understanding Adolescents and Young People Human Rights of Adolescents Youth/Adult Partnerships Gender Sustainability Behavior change Life Skills MANAGING ADOLESCENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROGRAMS

Content, cont. Youth-friendly Services Monitoring and Evaluation Advocacy Values, Attitudes and Ethics STI/HIV Review Access to Contraception Young Married Couples Optional: Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health Field visits

Advocacy for Reproductive Health Participants will gain a clear understanding of the basic concepts and scope of SRH advocacy and its applications in transforming policies and practices relating to sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Advocacy Identify advocacy issue Examine in light of their country’s commitments to ICPD, CEDAW, Beijing Learn advocacy steps (theory, case study and application to their own advocacy strategy)

USING GENDER AND RIGHTS TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF CARE Participants will understand and be able to use gender and rights as strategies to improve the quality of care in sexual and reproductive health services.

Gender, Rights and Quality of Care Introductory sessions on gender and rights Application of gender and rights to the clinic setting overall and looking specifically at violence (life cycle approach) and informed choice (including examining informed consent forms) Development of a workplan

Dissemination Training manuals available primarily on CATALYST’s website – users are asked to post their comments and modifications back on the site creating a “living” document