Resilient & Empowered Adolescents & Young People
The READY programme is funded by Frontline AIDS and is designed to build Resilient and Empowered Adolescents and Young people (READY). Its focus was on increasing access to holistic care and support: promoting not only sexual and reproductive health and rights but also mental health to foster resilience.
READY+2 (2021–2026) builds on the achievements and lessons learnt from READY+ (2016–2020). It aims to increase its focus on youth-centred action on gender norms transformation, advocacy, and movement building. The programme will directly reach 35,614 adolescents and young people living with or most affected by HIV and support them to become more resilient, empowered, and knowledgeable, with the bodily autonomy, freedom, and agency to realise their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
READY+2 is being implemented in Eswatini, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe, with targeted interventions planned for Malawi, Zambia, and Angola.
PATA’s role in the programme is to provide technical assistance in selected health facilities and provide training for health providers in adolescent-friendly services, HIV-SRHR integration, and advocacy in action. This is complemented by on-site mentoring, quality improvement planning and monitoring, and the integration of PATA’s Clinic–Community Collaboration (C3) model.
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