• Adolescence is not only a life stage; it is a period of reckoning with identity, belonging, sexuality, and future possibility.

    For young women and young people who can get pregnant, across cultures and contexts, it includes navigating the onset of reproductive capacity within complex social, economic, political and relational realities.

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  • Young people do not experience their lives in fragments. Education, relationships, safety, embodiment, economic stress, and spiritual orientation are woven together in how young people understand their lives and experience wellbeing.

     Sexual and reproductive health – including voluntary family planning – is also an integral part of that fabric.

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  • Yet the systems designed to support young people often remain divided. Health, development and wellbeing sectors operate in parallel, while shifting policies and funding landscapes create new barriers to both social support and voluntary family planning.

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  • At a time when young people face rising loneliness, economic precarity and mental health strain, the need for integrated approaches is no longer theoretical. Research, practice and funding structures must align more closely with the realities young people inhabit.

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Thrive Together explores what becomes possible when wellbeing and sexual and reproductive health, including the choice of whether and when to become pregnant, are recognised as integral to health and development practice.

We are a collaborative, transdisciplinary research project bringing into open dialogue the lived experience of young women and young people who can become pregnant with insights from the communities of practice who seek to support them, and diverse scientific evidence. Collating lived experience and practitioner insights from locations such as Uganda, the US, Nigeria, the UK, amongst others.

Funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Thrive Together supports the understanding of how these fields might work together to shift the status quo of health and development practice.

As part of a growing community committed to wellbeing as a central goal, we are building a set of conversations for those who sense that wellbeing and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) belong together.

OUR APPROACH COMBINES:

Creative & participatory research

Facilitating creative story-making workshops, community-led methods, and grounded insights from people’s experience.

DIVERSE Scientific evidence & FRAMEWORKS

Collating transdisciplinary developmental science, SRH research, and emerging wellbeing frameworks.

collaborative Bridge-building across sectors

Creating space for dialogue between individuals and organisations across sectors that are applying shared values to support the wellbeing of young women and young people who can get pregnant, inclusive of SRH.

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