Program description:

The Oxfam Québec “Pouvoir Choisir / Power to Choose/ Poder Elegir” programme (2021–2028) works with young people and partners in 7 countries in Latin America, West Africa and the Middle East to strengthen access to sexual and reproductive health-rights (SRHR) services for adolescent girls and young women. It operates in three interconnected streams: empowering youth and building peer-solidarity; improving the quality and inclusivity of health services; and influencing policy and legal frameworks around SRHR. In Québec, the campaign includes participatory research, youth-led advocacy and public awareness-raising on SRHR issues through a diverse youth committee.

What we did:

Providing ongoing feminist-MEAL coaching to Oxfam Québec (OQC)’s Power to Choose (P2C) program team, especially the MEAL officer. Power to Choose supports young women and adolescent girls who live in vulnerable conditions and who experience marginalization to enjoy health-related human rights in 7 countries in Bolivia, Honduras, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Lebanon, Jordan, and the occupied Palestinian Territories.

Designed and facilitated a series of five virtual coaching sessions for youth researchers in Ghana supporting a sexual reproductive health and rights project. At the end of the sessions, the youth researchers had a better appreciation for applying feminist principles to data analysis and practiced feminist data analysis methods that they could use during the project’s mid-term review.

Co-developed a feminist data analysis handbook to assist country teams to plan for and implement feminist data analysis in their endline evaluations. Coached the OQC P2C MEAL officer to adapt guidance to different country contexts and advise teams on approach for endline evaluation so that evaluation processes, including analysis, could involve youth and be more participatory and inclusive; as well as ensuring that data can provide meaningful comparative analysis and evidence of progress towards impact.

How we shifted practice:

Strengthened the capacity of youth researchers to analyze data they collected. Coached Power to Choose MEAL Officer to strengthen the capacity of country teams to design of endline evaluations for comparative intersectional analysis.