Bangladesh
Adolescent Reproductive Health Toolkit
 Activity Dates
2002-2007
Overview and Description of Activities
The primary purpose of the “Know Yourself” (Nijeke Jano) toolkit was to provide resources to peer educators, NGO managers, youth leaders and teachers to engage adolescents in learning about puberty, reproductive health and how to reduce risks. The toolkit had additional uses, including the following: to orient parents, community leaders and religious leaders on the importance of these issues; to inspire government officials to integrate these issues (and the toolkit) into their existing programs; and to harmonize ARH programming messages across a wide range of national and international organizations in Bangladesh.
The toolkit includes four research-based modules:
- Puberty: Physical and Emotional Changes in Adolescence
- New Feelings, New Passions: Sexual Attraction, Conceptions and Sexual Delay, Physical Abuse
- Preventing Risks to Our Future: HIV/AIDS and other STIs, Delay of Sexual Debut, Faithfulness, Condom Use, Prevention of Injecting Drug Use
- Marriage and Family Health: Delay of Marriage, Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, Hygiene and Nutrition
Each module consists of:
- An interactive video with animations
- Corresponding Facilitator’s Guide
- Question and Answer booklets
Two comic books—one on wet dreams and the other on menstruation—are included in the kit. An additional 10 comic books have been created as part of the program. A portable box for all materials enables facilitators to easily carry the videos, guides and books. The Nijeke Jano toolkit is part of a larger, “Know Yourself” Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) program in Bangladesh which consists of national-level advocacy efforts, TV and radio programs, TV campaigns, local media and events, and the large-scale implementation of the toolkit through NGOs conducting life skills workshops with adolescents all over the country.
Overall, the program is designed to provide sensitive information and skills building exercises to adolescents and to predispose them to continue a lifelong habit of health information and service seeking behavior.
Partners
The national Adolescent Reproductive Health Working Group: Save the Children, UNICEF, BRAC, Government of Bangladesh, UNFPA partner NGOs, ICDDR'B, others.
Ongoing partners: UNICEF, BRAC, Save the Children, the Government of Bangladesh, UNFPA partner NGOs, ICDDR'B, Plan Bangladesh, USA-GFATM, CWFD, FPAB, Action Aid, Red Crescent Society, BPHC and their partner organizations, Marie Stops Clinic Society, Food for Hungry International among others.
Government entities: Directorate of Women Affairs, Directorate of Youth Development, Bangladesh Scouts, Directorate of Health Services under global fund for tuberculosis, and malaria and AIDS (GFTMA) program. Health Education Bureau (HEB) of Directorate of Health Services also implemented the ARH workshops through their model village programs in 64 districts in Bangladesh.
REPORTS/PUBLICATIONS
Back to Bangladesh
Note about materials: Some of the materials and resources listed on each page are available in their full form, others are represented by image or citation only. For more information and resources, go to www.jhuccp.org
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