IMAGINE is making the following resources available for project implementers, donors, government leaders, and the broader public to reference, use, and adapt. Learn more about what is available and what is under development in this compendium.
IMAGINE Technical Resources
Project curricula used by trained facilitators
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 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’ reproductive health needs. Available in French and English. Also available in Bengali by request.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreProsperous 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.
Read MoreProject curricula used by peer leaders
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, 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.
Read MoreProsperous 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.
Read MoreBriefs
IMAGINE Technical Resources
To design and test interventions that hold promise for delaying the timing of first birth among married adolescents (ages 15-19) in Niger and Bangladesh.
Read MoreIMAGINE Technical Resources
To design and test interventions that hold promise for delaying the timing of first birth among married adolescents (ages 15-19) in Niger and Bangladesh.
Read MoreIMAGINE 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.
Read MoreIMAGINE 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.
Read MoreIMAGINE 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.
Read MoreEvidence 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.
Read the report on NCBIUnderstanding individual, family and community perspectives on delaying early birth among adolescent girls: findings from a formative evaluation in rural Bangladesh
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 Bangladesh.
Read the report on BNC Women's HealthIMAGINE Technical Resources
To design and test interventions that hold promise for delaying the timing of first birth among married adolescents (ages 15-19) in Niger and Bangladesh.
Read MoreWhy 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.
Read the report on CARE InsightsHarnessing 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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Counseling Guide for Newly-Married Couples
This manual underpins individual, home-based counseling to newly married adolescent girls, their husbands, and their families to address the couple and family dynamics that impact couples’ ability to wait until they are financially, physically, and emotionally prepared to have children. Key topics include communication and joint decision-making, future visioning, budgeting, and reproductive health and rights information. (Available in English and Bengali)