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Training Manual for facilitators on Sexuality and Gender & Young
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This manual is the
first in the series on YRSHR – related issues. The aim of this
manual is to help strengthen the implementation of programs with
young people in sexual and reproductive health within the
framework of gender and rights. It has been designed to guide the
facilitator in imparting appropriate knowledge that will help
develop positive attitudes among adolescents about sexuality and
gender issues. Also, this brings into focus the need for clearing
the cobwebs of misinformation, myths and confusions about
sexuality and gender. This training manual provides step-by-step
approaches that can be adopted for transmitting knowledge and
inculcating a positive attitude about sexuality and gender among
the youth. Through this manual it has been tried to encompass a
wide range of issues related to sex and sexuality. Each unit of
the manual has supplementary reading material for the facilitator,
which serves as ready reference for them on which they can work
out their training activities. |
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Supplement |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2002 |
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Training Manual on Youth Friendly Service and
Counselling |
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The manual on Youth
Friendly Services aims to address the needs of young people to
access information on issues of sexual and reproductive health and
rights and attempts to encompass a wide range of issues on the
same. It also provides step- by- step approaches that can be
adopted for transmitting knowledge and inculcating positive
attitudes about various concerns surrounding young people. The
manual encompasses information on the concepts, goals, components
and guiding principles on Youth Friendly Services. The end user
will be individuals or organisations wanting to establish these
services or re-adapt existing services to cater to young people.
The main manual is supplemented by supplementary reading material
collated and collected from diverse sources. |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2003 |
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Understanding and Practice of Peer Education:
Handbook |
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Peer Education seeks to utilize the positive aspects of young
people's peer groups by enabling them to learn from one another-
something they do naturally anyway. Increasingly the Peer
Education approach is being used to facilitate delivery of
messages and acceptance in adolescent programmes and activities.
This handbook, which is third in the series of YRSHR-related
issues focuses primarily on the genesis and synthesis of Peer
Education. The aim is to give users access to wealth of experience
and resource that exist in the field. This document attempts to
synthesize various experiences (including our own) and offer
guidelines to programme designers and implementers to learn and
possibly to adopt/ adapt those strategies that exhibit the
potential to succeed in their settings. |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2003 |
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Adolescent growth & development |
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This paper is first in
the series of working papers being developed under the information
centre on young people's issues. Adolescence is a time of many
transitions both for teens and their families. To ensure that
teens and adults navigate these transitions successfully, it is
important for both to understand what is happening to the
adolescent physically, cognitively, emotionally and socially and
how these transitions affect them, what adults can do to support
them, and what resources are available. This paper addresses some
of these issues and highlights the major landmarks of adolescent
growth and development both physical as well as psychosocial from
an Indian perspective. This paper would serve the purpose of
understanding adolescent issues for the adolescent themselves,
their parents and families, health care professionals as well as
programme planners and policy makers. |
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Working
Paper–I
Research based |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2002 |
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Reproductive Tract Infections & Sexually
Transmitted Infections |
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Working
Paper–II
Research based
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The
adolescent population in India is about one-fifth of the country’s
total population. There are varied concerns that relate to
adolescents that impact on their health and development.
Reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted infections
are one such area. The figures of young people affected by RTI/STI
draws our attention to a compelling need for addressing this
issue. This paper seeks to throw light on the specificities of
the problem particularly in the Indian context and the
policy/programme response to it. The focus of this paper is to
examine prevalence and vulnerability of young people with respect
to RTIs/STIs from other data sources. It is second in the series
of working papers being developed under the information centre on
young people's issues. |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2002 |
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Sexual behaviour among adolescents and
young people in India |

Working
Paper–III
Research based
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Sexual activity among adolescents and young people and the
associated risks of pregnancy is growing in magnitude in many
parts of the world. This paper which is third in a series of
working papers that engage with issues of relevance for young
people’s reproductive and sexual health and rights, deals with the
patterns of sexual behaviour among adolescents and youth, youth
sexuality and related issues which significantly influences the
health and development of young people in India. The paper looks
primarily at issues of sexual behaviour among the youth both
married and unmarried, which also reflects upon the sexuality of
women and men as defined in a culture in the Indian context. |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2002 |
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Media and Young People |
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Working
Paper–IV
Research based
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In
India, young people constitute about one-third of the total
population. Their reproductive and sexual health concerns have
largely remained unattended in most developing countries. It is
being realised that mass media has the potential to influence and
even change their mindsets on these issues. The scope of
discussion on media is so vast that synchronising it to a level of
young people becomes a no easy task. This working paper, largely
based on review of secondary literature, supplemented by MAMTA’s
experiences in the fields, and content analysis of the print and
the electronic media, is an attempt to review the role and scope
of media in addressing the issues of the young people in the
country. The underlying focus is to highlight sexual and
reproductive health, an issue apparently perceived to be still not
in the agenda of the mainstream media. The main objectives of the
paper are, to access the relevance of media in the life of the
young people; to estimate the current trends in the media with
reference to sexuality and young people; to determine the media
reach, access and habit of the young people and to discuss the
risks and explore the potential of the mass media to reach out to
the young people with information on sexual and reproductive
health. This paper is in continuation of the series of working
papers being developed by the information centre on young people’s
issues. |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2003 |
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Sexual Violence and Young People: The Human Rights Approach |
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Working
Paper–V
Research based
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Violence is one of the most tangible consequences of the economic,
social, political and cultural inequalities. Sexual violence in
its varying forms is also a violation of reproductive and sexual
health rights since it impacts sexual and reproductive health and
autonomy of an individual. This paper - fifth in the series of
working papers- being developed under the Information Centre,
deals with various issues concerning young people, particularly
their reproductive and sexual health and rights. The focus is on
the issue of violence, specifically sexual violence. The paper
looks at concepts and evidence of violence for women in general.
With the focus being reproductive and sexual health, the main
issues in this paper are sexual violence and rape and absence of
reproductive choices among young people. |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2003 |
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Positive voices -Exploring Vulnerabilities and
Understanding AIDS |
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Positive Voices is a
comprehensive compendium of cases that attempts at unfolding the
issues and constraints confronting community based care and
support (CBCS) programme. This institutional effort reflects the
voices of people living with HIV and the debilitating effect that
such an infection has on their total span of life. This intensive
study of life experiences and voices of positive people have been
put forward in such a manner that the text vividly describes as to
what it means to be a PLHA (People Living with AIDS). It is a
holistic approach of understanding convincing that qualitative
research efforts are rewarding the extent to which they help
researcher to dive deep into the lives of people and present an
objective understanding. |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2003 |
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Pragmatic approach
for sustainable adolescent health and development |
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This document presents
a review of the study on ‘Capacity Building of NGOs for Achieving
Optimum Level of Adolescent Health and Development’ undertaken in
two north Indian states namely, Uttar Pradesh & Rajasthan.
Executed, in collaboration with four partner NGOs, Mamta has been
the nodal agency providing technical support to partner NGOs to
enable them to enhance their capacity to address adolescent health
and development (AHD) issues to achieve overall growth and
development of adolescent groups. The purpose of the study was to
gain an understanding of the various aspects of AHD status and in
the light of that outline strategies to address these with
stakeholders’ participation. The sections covered under the
report are objectives and methodology used; tools adopted and
issues selected, findings and observations on AHD concerns,
reproductive and sexual health; societal values to gender norms,
project achievements and suggestions for sustaining AHD
initiatives. |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2002 |
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Adolescent Health
and Development in India: An Action Approach |
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This report is
based on the study project on the status of adolescents in India.
The study has been undertaken with the objective of initiating
advocacy for the policies and programmes addressing adolescent
health and development related issues. The
adolescent’s issues basically relate to risks and opportunities,
which affect their health and development. A major advocacy drive
would be required to foster the necessary policy amendments to
create an enabling environment for the development of services
provided to adolescents. Thus the attempt is made primarily to
review relevant Central and States’ Government policies with
respect to the way they address health and development issues of
adolescent groups. In particular, policies of the Ministries of
Health and Family Welfare; Ministry of Human Resource Development;
Ministry of Culture, Youth Affairs and Sports, and Ministry of
Rural Development and their relevant departments have been
reviewed. Efforts has also been made to review the programme
components of academic institutions both medical and non-medical
in terms of research, teaching, training, service and
communication. |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2001 |
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Directory of organisations working with
adolescent |
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The objective of the
directory is to create a database of organisations, which are
working with the adolescent, with a special focus on health and
related development issues. It consists of a state-wise
listing of organisations. The directory also brings out the
district-wise distribution of organisations working with
adolescents’ health and development, which is reflected in the
corresponding states maps also. The information has been
presented in a uniform format, mentioning their status, major
activities, issues addressed and geographical coverage and target
group covered besides the address. |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2001 |
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Adolescent needs: Implication for programmes |
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This report is based
on the study aimed at assessing the needs of adolescent boys and
girls in the age group of 10-19 years with a view to formulate
intervention strategies to optimise their health and development.
. The results and findings are based on group discussion,
prioritisation and matrix with the adolescent girls and boys and
the elders on various health and development issues. The
information obtained from two districts each in Rajasthan and
Uttar Pradesh has been analysed separately and presented together
for comparison. The report presents the trends pertaining to the
various issues relating to health and development of adolescents. |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2001 |
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Young People’s Reproductive and Sexual Health and
Rights: An Analysis of Urban and Rural Setting
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Any understanding of
reproductive and sexual rights can be acquired better in the
context of Human Rights in general. The perspective of rights
presents a development over thinking of access to different
resources as mere privileges or as largesse. A resource in this
context does not refer only to material or tangible goods but also
information, communication and negotiation skills that enable in
the well being of the person. The perspective draws attention to
the fundamental nature of such access to individuals’ well being
which also has a legal basis. To ensure these rights,
governments, NGOs, parents and other stakeholders of the community
play a very important role. The major objective of this document
is to identify the needs of young people and also to acquire
secondary data for focusing intervention strategies, which would
serve as baseline to evaluate the impact of intervention in the
future. The reports deals with findings from needs assessment
carried out in the areas of Bangalore, Karnataka, Bawal and
Haryana. This study was also to provide an opportunity to build
rapport with the community in general and youth in particular. |
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English |
Year of
Publication: 2001 |
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Kishore Prajnan Swasthaye |
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Set of 5 books |
These training modules help to impart knowledge to
the adolescents especially in the area of adolescent reproductive
health. The various issues are dealt with, in detail,
intermingled with games, activities and instructions for the
trainers along with relevant visuals to make the learning
interesting and interactive. Issues like Adolescent health and
development; Menstruation; Adolescent pregnancy, abortion,
contraception; Reproductive tract Infections; Sexually transmitted
diseases/HIV/AIDS, Maternal and child health has been discussed
and dealt within these modules. |
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Hindi |
Year of
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1999 |
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Young People
Address young people’s (10-24 years) health and
development issues at different levels, in the country and at
regional level.
HIV/AIDS
Prevention in
young people
Care and support
PMTCT




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