MultipleImpacts of Ethiopia’s Health Extension Programme on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing: a Quasi-Experimental Study 2002-2013

Understanding accelerators to improve SDG-related outcomes for adolescents—An investigation into the nature and quantum of additive effects of protective factors to guide policy making

“…Importantly, the UNDP SDG Accelerator and Bottleneck assessment distinguishes between accelerators, defined as life circumstances/ protective factors that directly influence SDG outcomes (e.g., food security or good parenting), and interventions, which can drive progress on access to these accelerators (e.g., feeding or parenting programmes) [10]. Evidence using observational data has identified a range of protective factors and their combinations (accelerator synergies) that bolster multiple outcomes for children and adolescents and can thus contribute to the accelerator model: safe schools [8], good parenting/parenting support [8,11], cash transfers [12], food security [11][12][13], living in a safe community [12,13], good mental health [14], education, ICT access [15], no survival work, small family size, food security, health extension [16], healthy caregivers [17] and access to community-based organisations [13]. There are now also programs emerging that are based on the idea of layered evidence-based services, such as the DREAMS programme, which aims to address the complex problem of high HIV incidences through a combined portfolio of provisions [18].…”