Youth
EnCompass’ work with youth focuses on creating access to high-quality healthcare and education as well as safe environments through which youth may prosper. A significant share of our work has focused on assisting U.S. government agencies and international organizations in assessing and evaluating their youth-targeted programs, training implementers on better youth-oriented practices, and designing programs to achieve better outcomes.
We have helped clients design, evaluate, and implement programs on a variety of topics, including improving reading outcomes in community schools, increasing services for orphans and vulnerable children, and addressing sexual and reproductive health of adolescents. Our cross-cutting expertise and rich offerings in evaluation, learning and leadership development, and gender analysis help clients engage young people as partners in their growth and development.
A Gendered Approach to Positive Girl and Boy Development
This document contains key outcomes and recommendations of the 2018 Gender 360 Summit. EnCompass was a sponsor of this event, and staff members co-facilitated a post-summit discussion resulting in the outcomes and recommendations. The five recommendations focus on the...
Gender Integration and Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response: Training Manual
As a part of our work with AIDSFree, members of the EnCompass team designed and delivered a three-day, face-to-face training for PEPFAR implementing partners working with orphans and other vulnerable children and key populations. The aim of this training is to...
Department of State, Evaluation of U.S.–Philippines Child Protection Compact Partnership
In support of the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office), EnCompass and Social Impact have partnered to complete a baseline assessment of the United States–Philippines Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership,...
Resource Guide for Gender Integration in Education Programming in Lebanon
In 2016 and 2017, EnCompass supported the USAID Performance Management and Support Program for Lebanon (PMSPL II) in conducting three education sector gender analyses across basic public education, higher education, and vocational training. This Resource Guide for...
Lesotho Response Efforts to Address Sexual Violence and Exploitation Against Children: Desktop Study
Scant data exists on the prevalence of violence against children worldwide. However, available information shows that violence against children is a global problem. This desktop study aims to glean from published and grey literature the extent of sexual violence and...
Early Childhood Development for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Research shows that early childhood development (ECD) is critical to both mental and physical health later in life. However, programming targeting orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) is almost exclusively focused on school-aged OVC, and only rarely are very young...
Including Orphans and Vulnerable Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Development Programs
There are no reliable estimates of the number of children living with disabilities. Estimates vary greatly, depending on the definition of disability, the methodology, and the measurement tool used (World Bank 2011; WHO 2012b). The most commonly used estimates are...
Permaculture Design for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Programming: Food and Nutrition
Among children under five years of age in the developing world, nearly one-quarter are underweight (127 million) and one-third are stunted (195 million). Over 90 percent of those who are stunted live in Africa and Asia (U.N. Children’s Fund [UNICEF] 2009, 2011a)....
Considerations and Challenges for Reaching Orphans and Vulnerable Children Affected by HIV
This issue paper focuses on community-based early childhood development (ECD) centers, defined as centers established at the community level for the holistic development (i.e., physical, socioemotional, and cognitive) of young children, to meet their needs and those...
GBV and HIV Case Study: Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse
Gender inequality is cited as a major contributor to Swaziland's high HIV prevalence rate. There is no routine screening for gender-based violence by health providers in Swaziland to provide statistical data relating to the incidence or prevalence of GBV. However, a...