IMAGINE Technical Resources

Project curricula used by trained facilitators

Girls’ Collective Facilitator Manual

This participatory facilitator guide combines reproductive health education and life skills, social norms exploration activities, and entrepreneurship skill building for IMAGINE’s adolescent Girls’ Collective participants. Available in French and English. Also available in Bengali and Haussa by request.

Fada Group Facilitator Manual

This participatory facilitator guide combines reproductive health education and life skills, social norms exploration activities, and entrepreneurship skill building for IMAGINE’s male social group (Fada) participants. Available in French and English. Also available in Haussa by request.

Reflective Dialogues for Health Workers: Family Planning Counseling and Adolescent and Youth Friendly Services

This manual, for facility- and community-based health workers, combines reflective dialogue sessions around social and gender norms with technical training in family planning counseling for adolescent clients. It also contains exercises to support the creation of individual and health facility-based action plans in order to better meet adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health needs. Available in French and English. Also available in Bengali by request.

In Mata Masu Dubara: Manuel de Mise en Place et de Formation d’Associations d’Epargne et de Crédit pour Adolescente (French)

This guide, aimed specifically at supporting IMAGINE’s Youth Village and Savings Loans Associations (YSLA), combines foundational training on financial management with guided support for the creation and implementation of savings groups for adolescent girls.

Prosperous Futures Board Game

This board game, used by IMAGINE’s adult facilitators, serves as an interactive tool to model the financial effects of early first birth while reinforcing the impact of positive social norms on financial wellbeing. Available in English.

Girls’ Collective Peer Leader Manual

This image-based flipbook—adapted for use by adolescent girl peer educators—is a simplified version of IMAGINE’s Girls’ Collective Facilitator Manual. It contains simplified, key points on learning objectives related to reproductive health, life skills, gender and social norms, and financial literacy as well as suggested activities for peer leaders. Available in French and English. Also available in Haussa on request.

Fada Group Peer Leader Manual

This image-based flipbook—adapted for use by adolescent or youth male peer educators—is a simplified version of IMAGINE’s Fada Group Facilitator Manual. It contains simplified, key points on learning objectives related to reproductive health, life skills, gender and social norms, and financial literacy as well as suggested activities for peer leaders. Available in French and English. Also available in Haussa by request.

Prosperous Futures Board Game: Fada Peer Leader Version

Modified from IMAGINE’s original “Prosperous Futures” board game, this revised, image-based game was used by Fada (husband groups) peer leaders. It serves as an interactive tool to model the financial effects of early first birth while reinforcing the impact of positive social norms on financial wellbeing. Available in French and English.

Prosperous Futures Board Game: Girls’ Collective Peer Leader Version

Modified from IMAGINE’s original “Prosperous Futures” board game, this revised, image-based game was used by Girls’ Collective peer leaders. It serves as an interactive tool to model the financial effects of early first birth while reinforcing the impact of positive social norms on financial wellbeing. Available in French and English.

IMAGINE: Implementation Learning Tools

This document contains a copy of IMAGINE’s 5-step adaptive management tool and methodology. It also provides tips for documenting adaptive management discussions and examples the types of issues that might be identified during each step.

Do No Harm: GBV Prevention

This document provides copies of tools and an overview of IMAGINE’s “Do no Harm” approach. It includes standard operating procedures (SoPs) and incident reports, copies of trainings for both peer-led and facilitator-led GBV referrals, and copies of referral sheets identifying local sources of health, psychosocial, legal, and protection support. Also available in French by request.

IMAGINE Peer Leadership Resources

This document provides an overview of IMAGINE’s peer leadership approach and includes copies of peer leader and mentor training and support resources. Also available in French by request.

IMAGINE Overview

This brief provides an overview of the IMAGINE project, which is currently testing holistic interventions that hold promise at supporting the healthy timing of first birth among married adolescents in Niger and Bangladesh. Available in English and French.

Overview of IMAGINE in Niger

This brief provides an overview of IMAGINE’s project components in Niger: community-based reflective dialogue groups (Social Analysis and Action), male social groups (Fadas), Girls’ Collectives, health worker transformation, and vocational support for adolescent girls. Available in English and French.

IMAGINE Component Brief: Girls’ Collectives

This brief provides an overview of IMAGINE’s Girls’ Collectives, safe spaces for girls serving as a platform for integrated SRH and life skills, economic, and social norms transformation activities.

IMAGINE Component Brief: Engaging Men and Boys Through Fada Groups

This brief provides an overview of IMAGINE’s male social groups (Fadas) in Niger, which engage young men and husbands as allies in delaying childbearing.

IMAGINE Component Brief: Community Social Analysis and Action

This brief provides an overview of IMAGINE’s community reflective dialogue (Social Analysis and Action) groups, key platforms for engaging community stakeholders through a process of self-reflection and action planning to challenge social norms that encourage early birth and to build norms encouraging married adolescents’ access to essential health services.

IMAGINE Component Brief: Livelihoods Training

This brief provides an overview of IMAGINE’s livelihood training and support activities in Niger and Bangladesh, including foundational business skills development, training for girls in livestock, agriculture, textile, and IT sectors, and market linkage activities to support economic opportunities for girls so that early motherhood is not their only option.

IMAGINE Component Brief: Health Worker Transformation

This brief provides an overview of IMAGINE’s health worker reflective dialogue sessions, which combine technical training in adolescent and youth friendly services with a process of self-reflection and action planning to transform provider attitudes and biases around providing family planning counseling and services to married adolescent girls without children.

IMAGINE Component Brief: Couples Counseling

This brief provides an overview of IMAGINE’s Couples’ Counseling component in Bangladesh, where trained facilitators provided private, personalized counseling to newly married girls, their husbands, and their families.

IMAGINE Evaluations

This link encompasses analysis and findings on the IMAGINE project on a diversity of areas such as qualitative, cost effectiveness, and economic-related evaluations, as well as an endline report.

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Evidence and Learning

“It is a thing that depends on God”: barriers to delaying first birth and pursuing alternative futures among newly married adolescent girls in Niger

This peer-reviewed article examines IMAGINE’s formative research on the underlying social, individual and structural factors influencing married girls’ early first birth and participation in opportunities such as education or economic pursuits in Niger.

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Understanding individual, family and community perspectives on delaying early birth among adolescent girls: findings from a formative evaluation in rural Bangladesh

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When Theory Meets Practice: An Applied Approach and Tool for Adaptive Management (IMAGINE)

This brief shares information on how CARE implemented an adaptive management approach, Implementation Learning, as part of the IMAGINE project.

IMAGINE Research Brief: Learnings from Conducting Market Analyses for Married Adolescent Girls in Two Countries

This brief provides an overview of the approach and lessons-learned while conducting IMAGINE’s market analysis to assess viable market opportunities for married adolescents in Bangladesh and Niger.

Fadas IMAGINE: Acteur du changement dans le cadre du soutien aux adolescentes (15-19 ans) mariées nullipares pour le choix d’un moment opportun pour la 1ère naissance

This brief provides details on how IMAGINE’s male social groups (Fadas) in Niger were mobilized as champions for adolescent health and rights, including their ability wait until they are physically, financially, and emotionally ready for children. This includes an overview of the activity, key lessons learned, and testimonials from Fada participants.

Why the rush? – understanding early marriage and childbearing in rural Bangladesh

This blog post provides an overview of formative data around early marriage and childbearing collected in Bangladesh.

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Harnessing the market systems approach to delay first birth among married adolescents

This blog post provides an overview of how IMAGINE adapted traditional market analysis approaches to understand the unique perspectives and situations of married adolescent girls in Niger and Bangladesh.

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