Co-Creation in global development

Co-production and co-creation are defining aspects of the OU’s work in global development.

 

Young girl drawing

Arts-based co-creation of sexuality education with young people in Aruba

Contact: Elizabeth Ascroft
Partner: International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) 

This research explores co-creative approaches with young people to develop sexuality education materials in Aruba, the Caribbean. It studys ways of knowing following an anticolonial approach to dominant forms of sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) knowledge within the international development sector. The research considers how creative dialogic spaces influence knowledge production, whilst reflecting on concepts of participation, power and affect.  

young person making a collage

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Chile: A Feminist Co-Creative Study with Young Women Coresearchers

Contact: Elise Denis-Ramirez
Partner: International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

The research explores how young Chilean women perceived and experienced areas of abortion, sexuality, and reproduction in the aftermath of the 2018 feminist protests and legalisation of abortion. Using an arts-based co-creative approach, young women participated as coresearchers, in the design, data collection and analysis of the research.

Reproductive health volunteer in Nepal

ACCESS: Approaches in Complex and Challenging Environments for Sustainable SRHR

Contact: Lesley Hoggart and Peter Keogh
Partners: International Planned Parenthood Federation, Frontline AIDS, Internews, Women’s Refugee Commission

Approaches in Complex and Challenging Environments for Sustainable Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (ACCESS) focused on co-creating sustainable, scalable, rights-based approaches to deliver comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights to all in the most complex and challenging settings. It worked in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.