ABOUT
COCREATE engages partners to design, test and scale sustainable approaches to health and development challenges from a gender perspective.
AREAS OF FOCUS
Gender Equality & Female Empowerment
Adolescent Girls & Youth Development
Sports For Development
Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights
Gender Violence Prevention
Mobilization for Social Change
APPROACH
COCREATE takes a participatory, inclusive, stakeholder-driven approach to working with partners. Bringing technical expertise, creative methodologies and tools, and an appetite for results-oriented innovation, COCREATE aims to strengthen and add value. A key objective is to build on, leverage and maximize the outcomes implementing partners are able to achieve.
COCREATE can engage to co-conceptualize a program from end-to-end, or enter to support any phase of the programming process.
CO-LEARN: Use creative methods to support research and learning to inform all phases of programming
CO-DESIGN: Use context-specific learning and stakeholder-driven methodologies to develop and prototype creative, responsive, user-centered program designs
CO-IMPLEMENT: Provide technical support to develop operational plans, troubleshoot and course correct over time
CO-MEASURE: Employ quantitative and qualitative methods to track, capture and document outcomes
CO-ADAPT: Gather perspectives from range of stakeholders to iterate and improve
SUSTAIN: Plan for continuity from the start by engaging appropriate partners and identifying renewable resources
SCALE: Position for expansion from the start by engaging appropriate partners and identifying replicable infrastructures and resources
Leadership
Jennifer Catino is passionate about working with others to learn, design, test and scale effective and sustainable approaches to health and development challenges with and for women, girls and their communities. She believes deeply in creating conditions and using tools to harness interdisciplinary and cross-cultural expertise for social change. To satisfy a continuous yearning for growth and development, Catino is experimenting with the application of human-centered design and positive deviance tools in her work. She is a global health, youth and development specialist with cross-sector experience in program, policy and research initiatives in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Catino has technical expertise in adolescent girls’ health, social and economic asset building; gender and rights; women’s health across the lifecycle; and HIV/STI and gender violence prevention. Catino has held positions with the Population Council, EngenderHealth, Family Care International and John Snow, Inc. She holds a Master of Public Health with a focus in Maternal and Child Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is fluent in Spanish.
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