Applying Social Franchising Techniques to Youth Reproductive Health and HIV Services

This publication is part of FHI's Youth Issue Papers - a series of in-depth reviews of critical topics regarding youth reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention. "Applying Social Franchising Techniques to Youth Reproductive Health/HIV Services" examines the role social franchising might have in expanding reproductive health and HIV services for youth. Steve LaVake, who coordinates private-sector programming for YouthNet, developed this paper based on a review of the literature on social franchising, visits to five programmes that involve some aspect of social franchising for youth, and conversations with experts in the field.

Chapter 1 addresses how social franchising techniques might be applied to meeting the needs of youth. Chapter 2 summarises the research available in the still-new field of social franchising. Chapters 3 through 6 describe four types of social franchising models for youth: joint venture, community, private provider, and governmental. The models overlap and are not mutually exclusive. Case studies of the five programmes visited by the author illustrate how these models have been put into practice. Chapter 7 offers observations and suggestions for next steps in the field of social franchising and youth.

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