Make Way Booklet of Lessons Learned

The Make Way consortium has published the Make Way Lessons Learned booklet, presenting insights and best practices from the programme’s implementation (2020–2025).

Launched in 2020, Make Way worked to break down barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for young people with disabilities through an intersectional approach.

The booklet captures our journey in building advocacy capacity for SRHR in which the comprehensive Make Way toolkit that we developed, played an essential role. We used the toolkit to share knowledge on intersectionality and build practical skills. The toolkit contains, among others, the Intersectional Community Scorecard that stimulates dialogue between youth, health workers, and duty bearers about SRHR needs and services; the Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis that helps assess whether policies take the needs of all people into account; and the See-Judge-Act-Tool that facilitates dialogue about SRHR using religious stories.

The booklet also shows how we used innovative approaches, such as our roadmap to meaningful youth engagement and a 7-step animated video for inclusive safe spaces, ensuring inclusivity throughout the programme.

Importantly, the booklet also presents some of the concrete results that we achieved with the programme. For example, expanded access to SRH services for youth with disabilities, increased budget allocations for SRH services and a stronger UN Political Declaration on Universal Health Coverage thanks to global level advocacy.

Find the full booklet here.

For more information about Make Way and its activities, visit www.make-way.org.