GREAT Scalable Toolkit

The Gender Roles, Equality, and Transformations (GREAT) Scalable Toolkit is a set of tools created for Ugandans to transform gender and reproductive health outcomes, providing approaches and information for young people aged 10-24. The materials were created through a three-stage process: review of relevant programmes, formative research with adolescents and the people who influence them, and a pretest of draft materials followed by revisions.

The resulting GREAT toolkit is a collection of materials in English and two local languages (Acholi and Lango) to help adolescents and adults:

• "Learn about their bodies, reproductive health, gender-based violence and gender roles;
• Talk about how to grow up, or support young people to grow up with good reproductive health, safety from gender-based violence, and equality of boys and girls;
• Act to support changes in the home and community for adolescents."

The toolkit contains:

1. "Growing Up GREAT" Flipbooks: flipbooks - one each for girls and boys - in story format to help very young adolescents learn about growing up "GREAT", understand body changes and seek advice on how boys and girls can live more equally.
2. Three sets of Activity Cards: for 1) Very Young Adolescents ages 10-14; 2) Older Adolescents (15-19); and 3) Married/Parenting Adolescents (ages 15-19) - Each activity card is meant to be used on its own to stimulate a group activity that includes a discussion on equality, reproductive health, and safety from violence. A set of fact cards includes "the body" maps and questions and answers included for reference. A subset of these fact cards includes "the body" maps and questions and answers intended for younger adolescents 10-14 years.
3. Radio Discussion Guides: 13 guides that groups can use to discuss specific topics and characters from the GREAT radio drama. "The guides allow people to talk first about those stories and characters they most enjoy, and then focus the groups' attention on themes in the drama. Finally, the guides encourage groups to talk about how these same issues affect their own communities and how they could be addressed."
4. Community Game: One life-sized canvas game board and four sets of game cards with questions which help people learn and discuss reproductive health, safety from gender-based violence, and equal opportunities for boys and girls.

Georgetown University’s Institute of Reproductive Health (IRH) in partnership with Save the Children and Pathfinder International implement the GREAT Project in Northern Uganda - with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under Cooperative Agreement No. AID-OAA-10-00073.