Elevating Voice and Agency
In this series, Chelsea and her colleagues define an explicitly feminist approach to policy and programming to reach adolescent girls. Commissioned by and in collaboration with Plan International UK, the series includes a global review and youth-led peer research reports from Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Sharing Learning with Games
Pragati is a social and behavioral intervention comprised of nine games implemented in five districts of Nepal. The games Chelsea designed sparked challenging conversations in communities around fertility and family planning, side-effects of family planning methods, and social norms that drive birth timing and family size.
WATCH THE PRAGATI MICRO-DOCUMENTARY
Training Young Activists
One of many training and educational programs Chelsea has designed for youth advocates interested in acting at local, national, or global levels to advance sexual and reproductive rights, the Respect My Rights, Respect My Dignity Module is grounded in human rights education and feminist training principles. It is designed to be used by and with young people and youth activists as they support their peers through individual and collective journeys of reflection, critical analysis and action. This includes having the knowledge and skills to engage in difficult conversations on a taboo subject and to stand up for sexual and reproductive rights.
Measuring and Defining Inclusion
As part of YouthPower Learning’s series on positive youth development programs, this technical brief offers clear standards integrated social inclusion practices. Chelsea and Juanita Adames explore what it takes to define, program for, and measure inclusion, starting from a dissection of power and safety concerns for young people from excluded and marginalized communities.
Mapping Global Advocacy
As the global policy landscape shifts in response to COVID19 and new landmarks on gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights, this tool provides a guide for young advocates working to advance comprehensive sexuality education policy, implementation, and accountability structures. Chelsea provides evidence and arguments for CSE from different sectors and offers advice to young advocates who are interested in pushing for increased investments in and favorable policy environments for CSE at the global level.
Power and Agency in Universal Health Coverage
In this SRHM Journal Commentary, Chelsea and collaborator Bekky Ashmore explore the need for Universal Health Coverage agenda to fully understand and address the influences of economic inequality, violence, and discrimination on girls’ power and agency in order to improve their access to health.
Training in Rights and Sexuality
Chelsea developed this Training Manual as one component of Amnesty International’s Body Politics: Criminalization of Sexuality and Reproduction series. It aims to motivate and equip the organization’s global movement to challenge unjust criminalization of sexuality and reproduction in local, national, regional and international contexts.
Financing Gender Equality
In collaboration with GreeneWorks, Chelsea worked to define a vision and roadmap for integrated gender equality results within global reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health funding.
Adding Rights to Job Aids
The risk or fear of violence can severely impact women’s, and in particular young women’s, willingness to disclose their HIV status to their partners. In this tool for service providers, Chelsea integrates intimate partner and sexual violence screening into HIV testing and partner notification services for adolescent girls, with a focus on rights-based, youth friendly quality of care.
Identifying Best Practices
In collaboration with GreeneWorks and young researchers in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, Chelsea presents a review of promising and innovative program approaches to prevent and respond to child, early and forced marriage in the Asia region. The research elevates the voices of adolescent girls and youth advocates in the five countries to identify interventions and approaches that respond to girls needs and have the potential to be effective if scaled up in Asia and beyond.
WATCH CHELSEA PRESENT A WAY FORWARD FOR INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT IN JANUARY 2020
Working with Young Survivors
This technical brief is written for researchers and program implementers working with youth in developing countries, who likely interact with youth who have experienced sexual coercion. In the brief Chelsea highlights examples of successful programs for reducing the occurrence of sexual coercion and force and describes strategies for responding to them. She also discusses how the frequency and negative effects of sexual coercion experienced by boys and girls could be reduced by building assets, especially social skills, agency, and youth empowerment, as a part of positive youth development programs.
Increasing Access to Abortion Services
Written for member association of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, this tool provides support to organizations who are interested in scaling up their work on young people’s access to abortion and abortion-related services. It presents some ideas and strategies that have been tried before in order to help inspire and inform creative approaches for different contexts.