What Came Next?
With funding from USAID’s Advancing Partners & Communities project, Anyaka Makwiri has been scaled up to three more districts in Uganda. The program’s success led FHI 360 to adapt and implement it in Burundi, Nigeria, and Ethiopia, where another 40,000 girls and young women have participated. In addition, FHI 360 also adapted it to create Young Emanzi, a mentoring program for boys and young men in Uganda.
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Looking Ahead
The Youth Power Action Mentoring model presents family planning/reproductive health programmers with a tested approach for addressing the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of AGYW. This model addresses social values and norms, builds financial skills, and links them to services for SRH and gender-based violence response. Most importantly, the approach leaves AGYW empowered to lead and sustain their own economic and health initiatives and improved outcomes.