The growing up GREAT! Implementation guide

The Growing Up GREAT! Implementation Guide offers tested guidance, tools, and materials to help program implementers work with VYAs and their communities to question and unpack community norms to build a more supportive environment for adolescent development and well-being. The intervention uses a multilevel approach to address social norms in the most relevant spheres of influence for VYAs—individual, family, school, community—recognizing that each has a unique and necessary role to play in improving norms around gender and adolescent reproductive health. The intervention has proven successful; one year after it was implemented with VYAs and their communities in Kinshasa, DRC (2017 to 2018), in- and out-of-school participants showed improved reproductive health skills and more gender-equitable attitudes and behaviours.