Girls’ Voices, Girls’ Priorities: Participatory, Innovative Tools for Capturing Girls’ Realities and Understanding Changes in their Lives
This toolkit brings together user-friendly information and practical, participatory approaches that enable adolescent girl participants in youth-serving organizations to document changes in their lives, and to provide input to shape programs.
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Contents
How and why to use this guide
Deciding what you want to learn—why, how, and with whom
8 innovative, participatory tools that you and the girls in your program can use to improve the quality of your programs, deepen insight into girls’ realities, and capture and share changes in girls’ lives
- The Girl-Driven Program Index and the Storyboarding Technique
- The Girl Path
- Girl-led Community Mapping
- Photojournaling/ Photostories and Journaling
- Girl-led Participatory Video
- The Intentional Story-Telling Mechanism
- The Voice, Action, Comportment, and Opportunity Checklist
- Bonus: Make Your Own Tool
Section Four: Take It Further!
Suggestions for further reflection and action, and links to online resources on gender, youth, participation, research, and evaluation
Additional Resources in this toolkit:
The Girl-Driven Program Index [GDPI]
The Intentional Story-Telling Mechanism [ISM]
Voice, Action, Comportment, and Opportunity Checklist [VACO]
