Association of Youth Organizations Nepal (AYON) is a not-for-profit, autonomous and youth-led, youth-run network of youth organizations established in 2005. It acts as an umbrella organization of youth organizations throughout the country. It provides a common platform for collaboration, cooperation, joint actions, and collective endeavor among youth organizations in Nepal. AYON is engaged in policy advocacy to create moral pressure on the government for designing youth-friendly policies and programs.
Recently, Knowledge SUCCESS Program Officer II Brittany Goetsch chatted with Sean Lord, Senior Program Officer at the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (JFLAG), about LGBTQ* AYSRH and how JFLAG pursues their vision of building a society that values all individuals, irrespective of their sexual orientation or gender identity. In this interview, Sean details his experiences with centering LGBTQ youth when creating community programs, and supporting them through initiatives like JFLAG’s peer support helpline. He also discusses how JFLAG has helped connect these young people to health care services that are safe and respectful, and how JFLAG is currently looking for opportunities to share best practices and lessons learned with others implementing LGBTQ helplines around the world.
Depuis sa création, le Partenariat de Ouagadougou (PO) œuvre pour l’amélioration et la promotion de la santé reproductive et l’accès à l’information et aux services de planification familiale dans la sous région Ouest Africaine Francophone. Pour optimiser cette lutte, les Gouvernements, les donateurs du PO, et les partenaires de mise en œuvre locaux et internationaux se sont appuyés sur les organisations de la société civile (OSC) y compris les organisations locales basées dans les neuf pays du PO afin d’identifier les besoins et les priorités en matière de santé reproductive au sein de leurs communautés.
In September 2021, Knowledge SUCCESS and the Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health (PACE) project launched the first in a series of community-driven dialogues on the People-Planet Connection Discourse platform exploring the links between population, health, and the environment. Representatives from five organizations, including youth leaders from PACE’s Population, Environment, Development Youth Multimedia Fellowship, posed discussion questions to engage participants around the globe on the links between gender and climate change. The one week of dialogue generated dynamic questions, observations, and solutions. Here’s what PACE’s youth leaders had to say about their experience and their suggestions for how the discourse can be translated into concrete solutions.
Brittany Goetsch, Knowledge SUCCESS Program Officer, recently chatted with Alan Jarandilla Nuñez, the Executive Director of the International Youth Alliance for Family Planning (IYAFP). They discussed the work IYAFP is doing related to AYSRH, their new strategic plan, and why they are champions for youth partnership around the world. Alan highlights why AYSRH issues are so important to overall discussions about sexual and reproductive health, and rights (SRHR) and reframing the narrative around young leaders and the intersectionality of SRHR.
On November 18, Knowledge SUCCESS and FP2030 hosted the fourth and final session in our concluding set of conversations in the Connecting Conversations series. In this session, speakers discussed critical ways to improve trust-based partnerships with youth-led organizations, donors, and NGOs to effectively improve AYSRH.
Dans le cadre de la deuxième édition du dialogue régional des jeunes organisé par l’unité de coordination du Partenariat de Ouagadougou (PO), en collaboration avec les organisations membres du Think Tank Jeunes (Pathfinder, Knowledge SUCCESS, Equipop, MSI, RAES, PAI, Breakthrough Action...), 36 jeunes des 9 pays du PO se sont penchés sur le thème « Les jeunes s’activent pour la vulgarisation des normes sociales favorables à la Santé Reproductive des Adolescents et Jeunes ».
PACE convened a two-hour virtual policy dialogue on youth contraceptive discontinuation in West Africa on May 26, 2021. The event aimed to increase regional policymakers’ commitment to addressing the barriers to sustained contraceptive use among youth and forge collaboration opportunities for youth-led organizations, journalists, and young researchers.
L'UCPO a saisi l'occasion pour annoncer que la finale du concours de plaidoyer des associations de jeunes du PO aura lieu le 31 mars 2021.