Learning and Adapting: Using responsive feedback to increase Growing up Great!’s effectiveness and scalability: Research brief

Growing Up GREAT!, a gender transformative sexuality education program for adolescents in Kinshasa, implemented responsive feedback approaches from project inception and into national scale-up. This brief summarizes the responsive feedback approaches used across the project lifecycle and provides a detailed case study of one responsive feedback approach: a rapid qualitative learning study designed to clarify and facilitate Growing Up GREAT!’s transition from implementing partners to national ministries in the final year of scale-up. The brief ends with recommendations stemming from seven years of experience with use of responsive feedback that can be used by program implementers, donors, and policymakers interested in applying these approaches to strengthen global public health interventions and outcomes.