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Beyond Tokenism: addressing privilege in the recruitment of young leaders in SRHR
In order to ensure inclusivity, it is imperative for SRHR organisations to intentionally seek out and recruit youth from diverse identity groups and socio-cultural contexts, allowing for a comprehensive and representative approach to tackling the challenges and complexities of SRHR. Learn more
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Leading A Global Classroom: The YIELD Hub’s Impact in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
This is a reflective piece from Lore Remmerie, a Master’s student who spent a few months as a research intern with the YIELD Hub team. Lore attended our 2nd Action Learning Cycle representing Rutgers. During this time, she also had the opportunity to learn how the YIELD Hub creates an authentic and open learning environment… Learn more
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Beyond the Basics: Transforming How We Measure and Improve the Quality of SRH Services for Youth
The lack of access to quality sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for adolescents and youth is a pressing issue. Despite the importance of comprehensive and evidence-based services, many young people still struggle to find the care they need. Learn more
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THE YIELD HUB AT WOMEN DELIVER 2023!
From 17th – 21st July, delegates from all over the world converged in Kigali, Rwanda for the biggest conference on gender equality; Women Deliver 2023. Armed with key messages and promotional materials, we immersed ourselves in the conference’s exciting atmosphere. As sponsors of the conference, we were eager to share our learnings from the past… Learn more
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Meet the Action Learning Online Community
This year, the YIELD Hub is running three concurrent Action Learning groups covering the below topics; Due to an overwhelming amount of interest in these topics from organisations all over the world, we extended our Action Learning Groups to include an online community of over 60 organisations who will take the journey alongside the core group. The Action… Learn more
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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!
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
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
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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