Table 2.
RAISE assessments for six TCI cities and actions taken leading to improvements.
| Location |
RAISE scores by round |
Program activities | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Key areas contributing to increases | Coaching activities contributing to increases | ||
| KENYAMombasa | Round 1: 80% Round 2: 92% (+12%) |
• Financial commitment for AYSRH • Supportive supervision • Coaching • Community involvement • Adolescent and youth-friendly services |
• Continuous political engagement • Continuous advocacy for more resources • Procure adequate tools • Referral and linkages • Follow up of coaches • Avail and print guidelines for volunteers |
| TANZANIAUbungo | Round 1: 81% Round 2: 89% (+8%) |
• Advocacy • TCI-U access and utilization • Coaching • Supportive supervision • Public-private partnership |
• Use of FP champions for advocacy • Enroll and orient more TCI-U users • Conduct supportive Supervision • Partnership with private sector, i.e., pharmacies and other NGOs providing FP/AYSRH services |
| UGANDAMukono | Round 1: 48% Round 2: 88% (+40%) |
• Financial documentation and management • Family planning /AYSRH strategies/approaches • Coaching • Supportive supervision |
• Non-technical coaching on financial management and documentation • Disseminate family planning/AYSRH best practices at all levels • Sisi-kwa-sisi coaching • Supportive supervision |
| FWAZiguinchor, Senegal | Round 1: 43% Round 2: 74.5% (+31.5%) |
• Strengthened collaboration between municipality and health system • AYSRH effectively layered onto TCI family planning program • Strong landscaping to identify gaps and needs • Strong political and health system commitment to AYSRH |
• Supportive supervision for AYSRH • Implementation and monitoring of AYSRH best practices, including reduction of provider bias, whole-site orientation, comprehensive sexual education, home visits by community health workers, youth associations, social media, and the transformational youth leaders • Adolescent and youth-friendly checklist operationalized |
| INDIASaharanpur | Round 1: 66% Round 2: 73% (+7%) |
• Improved leadership for AY interventions • Youth participation in key meetings • Review of AY program at city coordination committee meetings • City leading AYFHS assessments • Improved referral system • Frontline health workers map and list adolescents and refer to UPHCs • Advocacy for inclusion of AY indicators and data from HMIS in review meetings |
• Management coaching facility staff for timely upload of AY data on HMIS portal • Coaching LG to review data from facility and community at monthly review meetings • Follow up of master coaches • Re-stock and supplies (condoms, OCP, and EC) • Supportive supervision of AY counselors at District Hospitals and District Women's Hospitals • Partnership with private sector, including pharmacies |
| NIGERIAEdo State | Round 1: 53% Round 2: 69% (+16%) |
• State adoption and scale up of best practices • Increased social mobilization and referrals for AY services • Improved provider behavior and increased availability of AYFHS |
• Sensitizing policymakers on need for dedicated AYSRH programming and funding • Advocacy to create a budget line for AYSRH • Coach state team on scale up of best practices and train providers in AYFHS |