Adolescent friendly health services: supervisory/self-assessment checklist and user's guide

Overview

This supervisory checklist is a simple form to assist the supervisors and health facility incharges to carry out a periodic supervision or service providers in self-assessment for monitoring quality and utilization of adolescent friendly health services in a health centre. This checklist allows recording of the status of selected input and process criteria (indicators) related to the specific national standards of adolescent friendly health services (AFHS). For this checklist such criteria of measurement have been selected by consultation to understand the priority areas for monitoring and feasibility of doing it in routine supervisory visits and self-assessment. Hence, the checklist does not cover the entire list of criteria related to all national standards of AFHS.

Once the health facilities in an area have achieved and sustained a reasonable compliance to these selected criteria (related to the specific standards) over a period of time, the authorities could consider revising the checklist by replacing these criteria with another set of criteria related to same or other standards of AFHS.