Go Girls! Toolkit

The Go Girls! toolkit was developed by the Go Girls! Initiative, a three-year project (2007-2010) lead by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs (CCP), that aimed to reduce HIV prevalence among vulnerable adolescent girls aged 10-17 in Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique. This toolkit contains a set of research and programme interventions designed to reduce girls' vulnerability to HIV by reaching out to communities, schools, parents, and young girls using participatory awareness raising, community action, and skills building tools. The toolkit consists of manuals, visual guides, and case studies.
The Go Girl! toolkit contains five manuals:

• Go Communities! A Manual for Mobilizing Communities to Take Action to Reduce Girls’ Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS - This manual is a step-by-step guide to strengthen the skills of Community Mobilisation Facilitators to enable communities to address and reduce girls' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. It is organised around the 6 stages of the Community Action Cycle. These stages are the steps that community members can strategically and collaboratively implement if they wish to protect vulnerable girls.
• Go Families! Building Adults’ Skills to Communicate with Young People Training Manual - This manual prepares parents, caregivers, initiation counselors and other concerned adults to better communicate with the young people in their lives about the unique needs, concerns and interests of adolescents. The manual helps adults engage in nurturing, supportive relationships with young people through role-modeling and by building communication and relationship skills.
• Go School Girls! School-based Life Skills for Girls and Boys: A Teacher’s Manual – This manual is designed to help teachers teach students a range of life skills that will help the students protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. This manual has been developed to provide a safe and fun learning experience where girls can be equipped with life skills and knowledge to help maintain a happy and healthy life, stay in or return to school, and feel empowered to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS.
• Go Teachers! Creating a Safe and Supportive Environment for Girls at School: A Training Manual for School Personnel and Teachers – This manual helps school personnel understand and strengthen their roles as protectors of vulnerable girls and agents of change in their schools by promoting gender equitable teaching practices and addressing harmful school practices that put girls at risk of HIV infection.
• K4Health websiteGo Students! School-based Life Skills for Girls and Boys: A Teacher’s Manual – This manual has been developed to help teachers teach students a range of skills that will help them protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. The manual uses participatory teaching methods such as group discussion, brainstorming, role-play, small group work, educational games and storytelling. Participants will have many opportunities to practice using new skills, such as communication and decision-making.