Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Activity

To empower youth to think about their futures differently and to access the skills, social capital, and resources to make it happen.

The primary goal is to improve the health and well-being of urban, poor adolescents age 15-19 by increasing voluntary family planning (FP) uptake and continued usefrom a holistic, human capital perspective.

Situating FP in a broader context for young people to plan their futures, we propose three objectives: 1) Life SkillsEnhance youth life skills for healthy living and future planning; 2) LeadershipFoster an enabling social and policy environment for adolescent health and development; and 3) LivelihoodsIncrease youth workforce readiness, job opportunities, and entrepreneurship to address socioeconomic determinants of adolescent health.