Why this matters
Research about young people is rarely done with them.
Youth participation is usually a consultation footnote rather than a methodology. Co-produced research is better research: sharper questions, better recruitment, and findings that actually reach policy.
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Publications in the SSDP library
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Countries with harm reduction service data on our country pages
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Research collaborations with academic partners
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Youth co-researchers involved in SSDP studies
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How SSDP International can help
How we work with researchers.
Featured resources
Data and publications.
Success story
Youth co-researchers changed the research question.
“The young researchers reframed the study in the first workshop. The version we'd designed would have measured the wrong thing entirely.”
- Research questions set with young people
- Co-designed
- Recruitment through the chapter network
- Multi-country
- Findings published as a policy brief
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Research questions set with young people
Recruitment through the chapter network
Findings published as a policy brief
Frequently asked
Questions researchers ask us most.
Get involved
Work with the network.
Three practical routes into collaboration.
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