This certification tool is a means to quantify the status of youth-friendly services in a facility setting in order to issue a certification or a provisional certification for youth-friendly services. It can also be used as a way to compare progress made on instituting youth-friendly services when repeated by comparing the score at follow-up to that at baseline.
The tool is designed to accompany Pathfinder’s African Youth Alliance’s Rapid Assessment of Youth Friendly Reproductive Health Services and should be applied after the full assessment has taken place and the report prepared. It goes beyond the assessment and quality upgrade phases of making services youth friendly, and provides a clear indication of whether the facility has achieved the status of youth friendliness.
