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Twin brothers , 15, never attended formal school, used to attend Makani, Jordan © Nathalie Bertrams / GAGE 2024

Adolescent psychosocial well-being and Makani integrated programming

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Adolescent psychosocial well-being and Makani integrated programming

18.09.2024 | Jordan

Country

Jordan

Capability domains

Psychosocial well-being

Audience type

Programme designer or implementer

Year of publication

2024

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Authors

Elizabeth Presler-Marshall, Sara Luckenbill, Nicola Jones, Sarah Baird, Sarah Alheiwidi

Funded by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Makani (‘My Space’) centres have been providing young people living in Jordan with a variety of age-tailored programming since 2015. Originally designed to provide child protection and informal education to the 100,000 school-aged Syrian refugee children who were not able to attend school – because government schools had not yet been scaled up to meet needs – Makani centre programming evolved as the double-shift school system became fully operational (UNICEF Jordan, 2015; 2022).

Today, 114 centres serve disadvantaged young people of all nationalities and offer an array of courses in children’s rights; transferable life skills aimed at improving learning, employability, personal empowerment and citizenship (see Figure 1); tutorial support designed to complement formal education; and recreational opportunities designed to improve emotional and social outcomes (UNICEF MENA Regional Office, 2017; UNICEF Jordan, 2022). This brief, which draws on data collected by the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) research programme in 2022 and 2023, aims to contribute to the growing body of evidence that Makani centres support young people to thrive.

Suggested citation:

Presler-Marshall, E., Luckenbill, S., Jones, N., Baird, S. and Alheiwidi, S. (2024) ‘Adolescent psychosocial well-being and Makani integrated programming’. Policy brief. London: Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (https://www.gage.odi.org/publication/adolescent-psychosocial-well-being-and-makani-integrated-programming/)