Checklist for Programme Officers: Improving the Quality of SRHR Education Programmes for Young People

The development of the toolkit to which the Checklist belongs began in 2006, when organisations in the Netherlands and the Global South identified a need to make more use of the evidence of effective sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) education for young people. "Checklist for Programme Officers" is designed for donor and other organisations when they are developing or assessing project proposals. Like the tool which it supports - "Evidence- and Rights-Based Planning & Support Tool for SRHR/ HIV-Prevention Interventions for Young People" (in short, EPAT), both are based on the premise that experience and evidence gained from work done all over the world on SRHR education shows what does contribute to quality and what doesn’t. The E-PAT intends to provide evidence, in a way that is useful for organisations that are working in the day-to-day practice of SRHR education for young people but have limited time and resources. The aim of the EPAT is to encourage people who develop SRHR education to reflect on why certain decisions in programme development and implementations were made about the reasons why their programme and its implementation are the way they are. This checklist is a summary of the EPAT.

Another document written to go with the EPat and Checklist is the Intervention Mapping Toolkit for Planning Sexuality Education Programmes. It translates academic models, evidence, theories, and other information into a ‘cookbook’, providing many tips, experiences, and tools that have been used in projects in Africa and Asia.