Global AA-HA! Guidance assists governments and programme managers in deciding what to do – and how to do it – as they respond to the health needs of adolescents in their countries.
Since the launch of the Global AA-HA! Guidance in May 2017, WHO, UNESCO and other UN agencies from the H6 Partnership have been working closely with countries to support them in updating and developing comprehensive adolescent health strategies and plans. Through AA-HA! regional and national workshops, country teams examine their needs and priorities with technical support from well trained experts.
In 2017-2019, six intercountry workshops took place with the aim to provide technical support for implementation of the Global AA-HA! Guidance in regions and countries. Teams from 76 countries in the regions of the Anglophone, Lusophone and Francophone Africa, Anglophone and Lusophone Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean and South-east Asia regions were trained in how to apply the AA-HA! guidance for national priority-setting, programming, and monitoring & evaluation.
- African region workshop, Kigali, Rwanda. 27 November - 1 December 2017pdf, 329kbAfrican region workshop, Kigali, Rwanda. 27 November - 1 December 2017
- Workshop for countries of the Caribbean. 13-17 November, 2017
Early adopter countries
Several AA-HA! early adopter countries, including Bahrain, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Gabon, Guyana, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Sudan, Rwanda, UAE undertook a systematic process of needs assessment, landscape analysis, national prioritization and programming for adolescent health to inform their national adolescent health strategies and plans.
To assist similar processes in the second wave of AA-HA! early adopter countries, WHO developed an AA-HA! manual summarizing the process of using the AA-HA! guidance to facilitate the development of national adolescent health strategies and plans.
To better facilitate their use, the technical Global AA-HA! Guidance documents has been translated to French and Spanish, and the brochure and summary documents are being translated into the 6 official WHO languages.