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  • Meet our 5th Action Learning Cycle Group Members

    Meet our 5th Action Learning Cycle Group Members

    Compensating young people is not only a matter of equity but touches on the power dynamics, privilege, and inequality that exist when working with youth. Youth advocates and volunteers are often those who can afford to engage in unpaid roles, with those in underserved, less privileged positions and communities left behind. Compared to adult allies […] Learn more

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  • Meet our 4th Action Learning Cycle Group Members

    Meet our 4th Action Learning Cycle Group Members

    Stakeholders and organisations within the AYSRHR must have a broader view and perspective of what youth participation is about. That is, understanding that youth participation is not only about engaging young people as partners or leaders but necessarily develops from a broad, foundational base, including providing relevant skills (capabilities) and opportunities to apply them (agency). […] Learn more

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  • Meet our 3rd Action Learning Cycle Group Members

    Meet our 3rd Action Learning Cycle Group Members

    At the YIELD Hub, we believe that for youth partnerships to be effective, meaningful, and representative of all young people, stakeholders within the Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (AYSRHR) field must be willing to identify and engage youth in all their diversity in AYSRHR efforts. This requires the intentional recruitment of […] Learn more

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  • The boys talk the talk: Young women’s restricted role in Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights work 

    The boys talk the talk: Young women’s restricted role in Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights work 

    Women’s autonomy over their sexual and reproductive lives largely remains constrained. This is not only exclusive to developing nations, but a global phenomenon. It was only a year ago when we were rightly disturbed by the Roe vs Wade headlines affecting women’s reproductive rights in the United States. Indeed, compared to young men, young women […] Learn more

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  • Reclaiming the Power: Strengthening youth partnership in SRHR

    Reclaiming the Power: Strengthening youth partnership in SRHR

    At the heart of Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights (SRHR) is the idea that everyone has the right to make decisions about their own body and health. This includes young people who are often overlooked or excluded from conversations about SRHR. Yet, young people are the most affected by SRHR issues. Fortunately, we have an […] Learn more

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  • Call for Applications: Action Learning Groups

    Call for Applications: Action Learning Groups

    The YIELD Hub increases young people’s partnership in AYSRHR by facilitating cross-stakeholder action learning processes and influencing norm change. We offer a unique space and approach for committed stakeholders to come together to learn, share and align for normative change. – Action learning groups tor – We use action learning to develop new and creative […] Learn more

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  • Introducing our 2nd Cohort of Action Learning Group Members

    Introducing our 2nd Cohort of Action Learning Group Members

    Measurement of Youth Partnership Current efforts to measure the impacts of youth contribution and partnership within the Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) field are hindered by limited resources available for monitoring and evaluation and the splintered and disconnected nature of what to measure within the SRHR field.  The YIELD Hub […] Learn more

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  • The YIELD Hub at the International Conference of Family Planning

    The YIELD Hub at the International Conference of Family Planning

    Having launched only a few months ago, you can only imagine how excited we were for #ICFP2022. Key messages in tow, we were eager to consolidate our place in the Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) space at this year’s biggest family planning conference. Ready to get our message out to […] Learn more

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  • Advancing Cross-Stakeholder Partnership In  Adolescent and Youth SRHR through Action Learning.

    Advancing Cross-Stakeholder Partnership In  Adolescent and Youth SRHR through Action Learning.

    Perhaps what makes action learning so unique is the level of introspection it takes, pushing organisations to look within themselves first to shift the narrative on youth partnership in the adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health rights (ASRHR) ecosystem. The YIELD Hub was launched in 2022, emerging from the research and engagement of the […] Learn more

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  • Announcement: Save the Date for International Youth Day 2022, Twitter Chat 

    Announcement: Save the Date for International Youth Day 2022, Twitter Chat 

    The International Youth Day, 2022, provides an opportunity for the YIELD Hub and its partners, particularly Action Learning Group members of the current ongoing cycle on Gender, to demonstrate the power and impact of intergenerational partnerships in SRHR. The YIELD Hub engages different stakeholders, through Collective Action Learning which is a problem-solving method, to generate […] Learn more

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  • Welcome to the YIELD Hub!

    Welcome to the YIELD Hub!

    The Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (AYSRHR) space is truly an inspirational field, full of passionate individuals who seek to improve the lives of adolescents and young people everywhere. It is the space where I started my advocacy journey and shaped the future that I am living right now. It is […] Learn more

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  • Meet our first Action Learning Core Group

    Meet our first Action Learning Core Group

    The YIELD Hub has convened a diverse group of stakeholders to advance collective action learning on how systematic youth partnership can address the gender discrimination and exclusion experienced by young female and gender diverse youth leaders in AYSRHR.This first action learning cycle will support the core group members to reflect on the YIELD Gender Issues […] Learn more

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  • Meet the YIELD Hub Advisory Board

    Meet the YIELD Hub Advisory Board

    The Advisory Board provides advice on the overall strategic direction and technical guidance to support the Hub staff in their decision-making and implementation of the strategy. The Advisory Board members act as Hub Ambassadors and champions for youth partnership in AYSRHR by lending their voices, influence, and leveraging their networks to create access to opportunities […] Learn more

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