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Agency for All

Improving Health & Well-Being by Increasing Power to Act

Agency for All is a five-year (2022-2027) USAID-funded project generating evidence on the role of agency in effective social and behavior change programming to improve health and well-being for individuals and communities.

“We’re looking at the complex questions of ‘agency,’ and what that means for different people, organizations, and systems around the world—and for our own consortium partners,” said Project Director, Rebecka Lundgren. “We want to discover what works to convert intention into action and make it work for real people.”

Our work will advance cross-sector development outcomes including family planning and reproductive health, maternal, newborn, and child health, nutrition, infectious disease, and HIV/AIDS. As part of our overall approach, we will develop culturally relevant constructs of agency, strengthen the evidence on approaches to foster empowerment, prioritize local voices, and increase the agency of partners across our consortium ecosystem to generate and utilize evidence.

Agency for All is committed to advancing principles of inclusion and participation in locally-led research, monitoring, and evaluation.

“These locally-led partnerships are critical,” said Paul Bukuluki, PhD, Director of Research for Agency for All and an associate professor at Makerere University. “Context-specific mechanisms for measuring agency and more effectively evaluating approaches will help us improve the quality of life of people at the margins of society.”

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Introducing Our Team

Agency for All is led by a dynamic, diverse and highly experienced consortium of global, regional and country leaders in both implementation and research. Partners share a dedication to advancing social and behavior change, led by local priorities and voices: Center on Gender Equity and Health (GEH) at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Centre for Catalyzing Change, CORE Group, Equimundo, EVIHDAF, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Makerere University, Matchboxology, Sambodhi, Save the Children, Shujaaz, Inc., University of Witswatersand, and Viamo.

Where to Find Us

"From Intention to Action" at SVRI Forum 2022 Yields Insights on Concepts of Agency, Local Ownership

On September 23 during SVRI's 2022 Forum, Agency for All hosted a breakfast event that brought together 45 researchers, implementers, and others to explore the concept of agency within violence prevention and response programming in different settings.

Join us for breakfast on November 16 at 7:00am-8:30am ICT during the 2022 International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in Thailand to explore the concept of agency within family planning research and programming across diverse contexts: "From Intention to Action: Conceptualizing Agency in FP Programs." Space is limited!

We need your insight!

What is agency's role in social and behavior change communication? Join the Agency for All Consortium at this year’s SBCC Summit in Marrakech, Morocco to grapple with questions like: "who has the capacity to set goals, make decisions, and act?"

On Wednesday, December 07 at 6:00PM, we'll host an interactive session to share about Agency for All's efforts to support local leadership and equitable partnerships, and to generate insights into agency and its role in SBCC research and programming.

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