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Adolescent Well-being: Papers on Programming to Promote Adolescent Well-being
The UN H6+
Technical Working Group on Adolescent Health and Well-being, including
representatives of PMNCH, UNAIDS, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Major Group for
Children and Youth, UN Women, World Bank, World Food Programme and WHO have
developed the Adolescent Well-being: Definition and
Conceptual Framework.
To advance the Adolescent
Well-being Framework in policies and programmes, key partners are working
towards a Global Summit for Adolescents in 2023. The Summit will drive impact
at the country level by serving as a commitment-making milestone for policy
shifts, programme redesign and enhanced financial investments for adolescent
programmes and services.
As part of the preparations
for the Global Summit for Adolescent Well-being, a series of regional Multi-stakeholder
Consultations on Programming to Promote Adolescent Well-Being are being
held in June, July and August 2021 to explore policy and programming issues
related to the promotion of the agreed definition of adolescent well-being.
Governments, UN organizations, young people, youth-led and youth-serving
organizations, funding agencies and academics, will focus on clarifying
practical suggestions for how programmes to promote adolescent well-being can
be effective.
In preparation
for the multi-stakeholder consultations, academics, researchers, policy makers,
programme implementers and young people have examined policy and programming
implications related to adolescent health and well-being through a series of
fifteen background papers. The fifteen papers summarize the key policy and
programming issues that must be addressed by programmes that aim to promote
adolescent well-being.
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Background papers
31 May 2021
Introduction to Adolescent Well-being
Adolescent well-being will be essential to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and a societal good in its own right. A Global Summit...
Adolescent well-being is a growing area of policymaking, programming and research, yet there is no consensus on how it should be defined and measured....
31 May 2021
Economic Case for Investment
The wellbeing of today’s adolescents is paramount for our future. They will shape global outcomes in the decades ahead and will be both the parents...
31 May 2021
Good health and optimum nutrition in adolescence
Good health and optimum nutrition extends from the absence of disease and malnutrition to the capacity to cope well with daily tasks and maintain functioning...
31 May 2021
Connectedness, Positive Values, Contribution
Connectedness, positive values and contributions are essential building blocks for adolescent well-being. For a long time, the focus on adolescent health...
31 May 2021
Safety and a Supportive Environment
The adolescent well-being framework identifies Safety and a Supportive Environment as one of five domains underpinning adolescent well-being, with sub-domains...
31 May 2021
Education, Skills building and Employability
The link between education and well-being is well recognized. An adolescent who has access to quality education is more likely to experience well-being...
31 May 2021
Agency and Resilience
An important component of the adolescent well-being framework is the domain of agency and resilience that contributes to ensuring all adolescents “have...
31 May 2021
Lessons Learned from Programmes
This paper summarizes key programmatic lessons from a review of ten adolescent well-being programmes across a range of world regions. Programmes were either...
31 May 2021
Monitoring progress
Adolescent well-being has received increased attention in recent years, and a new definition and conceptual framework on adolescent well-being has been...
Adolescents are growing up in an increasingly digital world. Whilst their access to – and engagements with – the digital world are diverse,...
31 May 2021
Humanitarian and Fragile Settings
Adolescents are disproportionately affected in humanitarian and fragile settings, where they will often find themselves in high-risk situations and may...
31 May 2021
Adolescent Well-Being in the Time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching impacts on people everywhere, but with divergent impacts across the life-course. Although mortality and morbidity...
31 May 2021
Adolescent well-being and the climate crisis
The devastating impacts of the climate crisis are threatening global health in ways that are far greater than once feared. Adolescents are particularly...
31 May 2021
Effective policies and programming
This paper summarizes key lessons from thirteen background papers (Background Papers 2-14 (BP 2-14)) prepared for the series of multi-stakeholder consultations...
Adolescent Well-Being BMJ Collection
The Adolescent Well-being BMJ Collection (2022-2023) questions the state of play and sheds light on an often-ignored population group. The collection, through its various analysis articles, opinion pieces, and letters, presents an in depth understanding of the Adolescent Well-being Framework, its 5 intersecting domains and 27 sub-domains:
- Good Health and Optimum Nutrition,
- Connectedness, positive values and contribution to society,
- Safety and a Supportive environment,
- Learning, competence, education, skills and employability, and
- Agency and resilience, illustrating the need for multi-sectoral collaboration to respond to the needs of this neglected population group.
Glossary
Acronyms:
AW - Adolescent Well-being
AW Framework - Adolescent Well-being Framework
AYC- Adolescents and Youth Constituency
BHCPF - Basic Health Care Provision Fund
BMJ - The British Medical Journal
CtA - Call to Action for Adolescents
Global AH-HA! - Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents
MAYE - Meaningful Adolescent and Youth Engagement
MS - Member State
MSC - Multi-stakeholder Consultation
MSP - Multi-stakeholder Platform
SRMNCAH – Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health
WCAH – Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents' Health
Terminology:
Adolescent Well-being Definition and Conceptual Framework
Papers on Programming to Promote Adolescent Well-being
Call to Action for Adolescents
Global Summit for Adolescents
UN Resolution on Adolescents
Joint Statement on Adolescents
Multi-stakeholder Consultations on Programming to Promote Adolescent Well-Being
Related links:
The Global Forum for Adolescents and 1.8 Billion Young People for Change Campaign
Adolescent Well-being: a definition and conceptual framework published in the Journal for Adolescent Health on August 12th 2020
Advocating for Change for Adolescents toolkit
Call to Action for Adolescents
Fifteen background papers on Programming to Promote Adolescent Well-being
Governing health futures 2030: Growing up in a digital world
Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!)
Global Consensus Statement for Meaningful Adolescent and Youth Engagement (MAYE)
Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Well-being
“Uniting for adolescents in covid-19 and beyond” published in the BMJ on March 31st 2021