IMPLEMENTATION MANUALS
For Phase 2 (2017-2020), the Tipping Point initiative has utilized learnings from Phase 1 to develop and test a holistic and replicable implementation package. Tipping Point’s approach uses synchronized engagement with different participant groups (e.g., girls, boys, parents, community leaders), around key programmatic topics, and creates public spaces for all community members to be part of the dialogue. Tipping Point’s approach is rooted in challenging social expectations and repressive norms and promoting girl-driven movement building and activism. These components are designed to help adolescent girls find and collectively step into spaces to reflect on and tackle inequality.
The goal of this curriculum is to promote gender equality and prevent child marriage and GBV. The activities are meant to help youth reflect on expectations and roles they play in regard to gender, to help them challenge inequitable expectations, to practice new, more equitable ways of behaving, to learn about key topics on SRHR and income generation.
Facilitator’s Manual for Adolescent Girls Groups
This Facilitator’s Manual for Girls’ Collectives has been designed for adolescent girls aged 12 to under-16 in Bangladesh at the time of baseline. The core intervention package spans 18 months, consisting of 45 sessions in total, e.g., no more than one session a week and not overlapping with national holidays, school exams, and other context-related events. In addition to the sessions in this manual, the girls’ intervention package includes Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) sessions and a girls’ activist training.
Facilitator’s Manual for Adolescent Boys groups
This Facilitator’s Manual has been designed for adolescent boys aged 12 to under-16 in Nepal at the time of baseline. The core intervention package spans 18 months, consisting of 45 sessions in total, e.g., no more than one session a week and not overlapping with national holidays, school exams, and other context-related events. In addition to the sessions in this manual, select boy activists will undergo training to support the girls’ activist activities.
Facilitator’s Manual for Mothers’ Groups
This Facilitator’s Manual has been designed for the mothers of adolescent girls and boys in Tipping Point groups. The mothers meet once per month over the 18-month intervention period. In addition to the sessions in this manual, select parent activists will undergo training to support the girls’ activist activities.
Facilitator’s Manual for Fathers’ Groups
This Facilitator’s Manual has been designed for the fathers of adolescent girls and boys in Tipping Point groups. The fathers meet once per month over the 18-month intervention period. In addition to the sessions in this manual, select parent activists will undergo training to support the girls’ activist activities.
Facilitator’s Manual for Religious Leaders
The Tipping Point Religious Leaders’ package is a set of interactive sessions and self-reflection exercises designed to help foster a process of change to dig deep into the Child Marriage practices and its consequences within the communities of Nepal and Bangladesh.
This manual is also available in French here.
Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator Manual
This manual is meant to be used alongside the rest of the Tipping Point curriculum, which encourages reflection on sensitive issue prior to the dialogues, creating a safe space for open communication. Well-trained facilitators should be present during the dialogue and facilitators should ensure all participants have an opportunity to participate.
Girl activists from the groups can be asked to lead the campaign planning in the later sessions, with support from the boys and parents activists and the facilitators.
This manual is also available in French here
ACTIVIST PACKAGE
Tipping Point’s approach is rooted in challenging social expectations and repressive norms and promoting girl-driven movement building and activism. Research shows that major social change only occurs when those who have been excluded from power organize collectively in the form of social movements to challenge existing systems and their impact. Therefore, Tipping Point facilitates adolescent girl-led activism and allyship by parent and adolescent boys to help girls find and collectively step into spaces to reflect on and tackle inequality
This Girl-Led Activism and Structured Allyship Brief provides an overview of the way that Tipping Point cultivated girl-led activism and movement building and engaged allies to support those girls.
Tipping Point has found that formal and informal support structures are crucial to the success of the young activists. Therefore, the program includes simultaneous capacity building for boy and parent activist allies, (also available in French). beginning with a discussion of their role as ally and the importance of an environment where girls feel free to question, raise their voices collectively and take risks to advance social change at community level.