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Meet Action Learning Cycle 8 Members
Youth experiences are diverse and influenced by various factors like gender, class, ethnicity, etc. Young people in AYSRHR face limitations due to age, needing support to transition into professional roles. Stakeholders must provide skills, opportunities, and supportive environments for youth to grow professionally.
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Meet Action Learning Cycle 7 Members
Compensating young people for their work in youth-focused interventions is crucial for sustaining their efforts and investing in their leadership. The lack of compensation creates inequality, with youth from privileged backgrounds dominating leadership roles. Compared to paid positions, unpaid youth volunteers face disadvantages, stress, and burnout.
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Call for Applications: Action Learning Cycles 6-8
We use action learning to develop new and creative ways for adolescents and youth to get involved in SRHR. Action learning processes can help develop leaders, build teams, solve problems and transform institutions and processes. We invite funders, researchers, implementers, INGOs, and youth-led organisations to apply to join our action learning groups.
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Adventure Time: A student’s journey with the YIELD Hub
A Master’s student with a passion for global health, reflects on her journey with the YIELD Hub. This video captures her time as a research intern and her takeaway on the power of collaborative learning in advancing global health. Lore shares how the YIELD Hub fosters an authentic, open learning environment that goes beyond traditional…
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Beyond Volunteerism: The Case for Equitable Compensation in Youth Work
In issues of injustice and disparities, young people are often celebrated for their zeal yet ironically left in the shadows when it comes to fair compensation for their work and advocacy efforts. Youth, especially from under-served and marginalised communities work tirelessly to champion the cause of equity and rights in field of Adolescent and Youth…
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Aging Up, Not Out!: Youth Transition in the SRHR field
Despite their valuable contributions, young individuals often find themselves trapped in a never-ending cycle of “youth engagement”. Tokenistic youth involvement not only undermines their abilities but also poses a threat to sustainable change.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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).…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
