JSI Research & Training Institute

This grant to JSI Research & Training Institute will support the transition phase of the Human-Centered Design (HCD) Exchange into a new phase with an evolved mission to increase access to and use of human-centered design in global health. Co-funded with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the HCDExchange will work through country-based workforce development, knowledge generation and exchange, and locally led technical assistance as it launches itself into a more sustainable structure. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)

This organizational effectiveness grant to JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc. will support business development for the HCD Exchange, a community of practice that support the use of human-centered design in adolescent sexual and reproductive health programs. As we are phasing out our support of the HCD Exchange under our new Global Reproductive Health strategy, this grant will support their team to build new resources to support the sustainability of the project beyond our funding.

This grant to JSI Research & Training Institute will support the second phase of HCD Exchange, an effort to promote the use of human-centered design (HCD) in adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH). Co-funded with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the HCD Exchange aims to improve ASRH outcomes through increased use of methods and principles that center on the aspirations of youth, as well as to expand the field of human-centered design in adolescent sexual and reproductive health to more organizations, funders, designers, and evaluators. During this grant, JSI will harness the learnings and community built under the initial grant to promote the uptake of new practices and to deepen engagement and sustainability of the community. This is a final grant to the HCD Exchange project under the new Global Reproductive Equity strategy.