GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub

GCRF 加速非洲青少年中心的成就

• 批准号: ES/S008101/1
• 负责人: Lucie Cluver
• 金额: $ 2361.25万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS008101%2F1
• 关键词: GCRF; Accelerating; Achievement; Africa; Adolescents

In thirty years' time there will be half a billion adolescents in Africa. Like youth everywhere, they possess huge potential to thrive. But more than half are trapped in cycles of poor nutrition, poverty, low education, violence and unemployment. They also have the world's highest rates of early fertility, with adverse long-term outcomes for adolescent parents and their children. Such inter-generational disadvantage creates risks not only in the region but also to global stability.The SDGs and African Union's Agenda 2063 challenge us to take a radical new approach. The UK's Global Challenges Research Fund provides a unique opportunity to do this. The Accelerating Advantage Hub will find the combinations of services with the greatest positive impacts for Africa's adolescents and their children. We need to move beyond services focused on single outcomes, towards 'super-accelerator' impacts across multiple SDGs of health, education, violence prevention, gender equality and economic stability. With our government partners we will test combination services - for example of cash transfers, malaria prophylaxis, parenting programs, business skills and violence prevention - to identify the leanest and most effective policy packages.The Hub has been planned with African governments and international agencies including the UN Development Program, African Union, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation. They have told us that 'evidence as usual' is not enough. When we make a personal investment, like buying a computer, we want to know not only whether it is the most efficient, but also whether it is good value for money and whether we will like to use it. Governments need the same information about services: their effectiveness, their cost-effectiveness, whether they can be delivered through existing health, education and welfare systems, and whether they will be accepted by service providers and by adolescents. The Hub will conduct large-scale studies and use existing data in Angola, Cote D'Ivoire, DRC, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia & Zimbabwe. All projects will include cost-effectiveness to assist budget decisions. In short, we will provide African policy-makers with the evidence they need and want to do the best for adolescents.The Hub will also train and support frontline workers to improve services for adolescents across Africa. We will turn evidence into training modules, freely accessible manuals and support materials. We will deliver practitioner training in 34 African countries by working with NGO partners selected for wide regional coverage, for example Paediatric Adolescent Treatment for Africa, the International Rescue Committee, Clowns without Borders and the International AIDS Alliance. Skills-building for young researchers in Africa and the UK is built into the Hub's work. We will support 45 promising young academics and dedicated African policymakers to focus their careers on improving the lives of adolescents and their children.The Hub's work is planned with adolescents themselves. Too many services have failed because they do not appeal to teenagers' aspirations and immediate goals. The Hub will work directly with adolescent advisory groups in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa to co-develop approaches that are not only effective, but also meaningful and fun for those who will use them.We aim to reach 20 million adolescents and their children with effective combinations of services to meet their needs. Between our direct countries of research and our NGO partners, the Hub will actively engage with policymakers, practitioners and adolescents across East, West, Southern and Central Africa and including fragile and war-torn states. We have a common goal: to transform the potential of Africa's adolescents into a thriving future for the continent.

三十年后，非洲将有5亿青少年。像世界各地的年轻人一样，他们拥有蓬勃发展的巨大潜力。但超过一半的人陷入了营养不良、贫困、低教育、暴力和失业的循环之中。他们的早期生育率也是世界上最高的，给青少年父母及其子女带来了不利的长期后果。这种代际劣势不仅在该地区而且给全球稳定带来风险。可持续发展目标和非盟《2063年议程》要求我们采取激进的新方法。英国的全球挑战研究基金提供了一个独特的机会来做到这一点。加速优势中心将找到对非洲青少年及其儿童产生最大积极影响的服务组合。我们需要超越专注于单一结果的服务，转向跨越卫生、教育、暴力预防、性别平等和经济稳定等多个可持续发展目标的“超级加速器”影响。我们将与我们的政府合作伙伴一起测试综合服务--例如现金转移、疟疾预防、育儿计划、商业技能和暴力预防--以确定最精简和最有效的一揽子政策。该中心已与非洲各国政府和包括联合国开发计划署、非洲联盟、联合国儿童基金会和世界卫生组织在内的国际机构共同规划。他们告诉我们，仅有“一如既往的证据”是不够的。当我们进行个人投资时，就像买一台电脑一样，我们不仅想知道它是否最高效，而且想知道它是否物有所值，我们是否会喜欢使用它。各国政府需要关于服务的同样信息：服务的有效性、成本效益、是否可以通过现有的卫生、教育和福利系统提供服务，以及服务提供者和青少年是否会接受这些服务。该中心将进行大规模研究，并使用安哥拉、科特迪瓦、刚果民主共和国、埃塞俄比亚、冈比亚、加纳、几内亚、肯尼亚、莱索托、利比里亚、马拉维、马里、莫桑比克、尼日利亚、塞内加尔、塞拉利昂、南非、索马里、南苏丹、坦桑尼亚、乌干达、赞比亚和津巴布韦的现有数据。所有项目都将包括成本效益，以协助预算决策。简而言之，我们将向非洲政策制定者提供他们需要的证据，并希望为青少年做最好的工作。该中心还将培训和支持一线工作人员，以改善整个非洲为青少年提供的服务。我们将把证据转化为培训模块、免费获取的手册和辅助材料。我们将通过与非政府组织伙伴合作，在34个非洲国家提供从业人员培训，这些伙伴被选为覆盖广泛区域的非政府组织伙伴，例如非洲儿童青少年治疗组织、国际救援委员会、无国界小丑组织和国际艾滋病联盟。为非洲和英国的年轻研究人员培养技能是该中心工作的一部分。我们将支持45名有前途的年轻学者和敬业的非洲政策制定者将他们的职业生涯集中在改善青少年及其子女的生活上。Hub的工作是与青少年本身一起规划的。太多的服务失败了，因为它们不能满足青少年的愿望和眼前目标。该中心将直接与东非、西非和南部非洲的青少年咨询小组合作，共同开发不仅有效，而且对将使用这些方法的人来说有意义和乐趣的方法。我们的目标是为2000万青少年及其子女提供有效的服务组合，以满足他们的需求。在我们的直接研究国家和我们的非政府组织合作伙伴之间，该中心将积极与东非、西非、南部和中部非洲的政策制定者、从业人员和青少年接触，包括脆弱和饱受战争蹂躏的国家。我们有一个共同的目标：将非洲青少年的潜力转化为非洲大陆蓬勃发展的未来。

项目成果

Associations of social media and health content use with sexual risk behaviours among adolescents in South Africa.

• DOI: 10.1080/26410397.2023.2267893
• 发表时间: 2023-12
• 期刊: Sexual and reproductive health matters
• 影响因子: 6
• 作者: Banougnin BH;Toska E;Maughan-Brown B;Rudgard W;Hertzog L;Jochim J;Armstrong A;Cluver L
• 通讯作者: Cluver L

sj-docx-1-tva-10.1177_15248380221134290 - Supplemental material for Different Instruments, Same Content? A Systematic Comparison of Child Maltreatment and Harsh Parenting Instruments

sj-docx-1-tva-10.1177_15248380221134290 - 不同仪器的补充材料，内容相同？

• DOI: 10.25384/sage.21637857
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Backhaus S

Preventing exposure to sexual risk and HIV in South Africa through SDG-aligned provisions

通过符合可持续发展目标的规定，防止南非接触性风险和艾滋病毒

• 作者: Based On Work By Toska, Elona (Consistent Provisions Mitigate Exposure To Sexual Risk;HIV Among Young Adolescents In South Africa. AIDS;Behavior)
• 通讯作者: Behavior)

SDG-aligned provisions reduce potential mortality risk among adolescents living with HIV

符合可持续发展目标的规定可降低艾滋病毒感染青少年的潜在死亡风险

• 作者: Based On Work By Cluver L (Sustainable Survival For Adolescents Living With HIV: Do SDG-Aligned Provisions Reduce Potential Mortality Risk?)

Different Instruments, Same Content? A Systematic Comparison of Child Maltreatment and Harsh Parenting Instruments.

• DOI: 10.1177/15248380221134290
• 发表时间: 2023-12
• 期刊: TRAUMA VIOLENCE & ABUSE
• 影响因子: 6.4
• 作者: Backhaus, Sophia;Leijten, Patty;Meinck, Franziska;Gardner, Frances
• 通讯作者: Gardner, Frances