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Beyond Borders: My Journey as a Youth Advocate from the Global South
Traditionally, youth have been relegated to passive roles, viewed as recipients rather than architects of development, lacking equal rights compared to adults. Despite youth-led organisations’ relentless efforts to strive for meaningful and inclusive youth participation in SRHR, young people often find themselves marginalised and overlooked.
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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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Youth as Agents of Change: Promoting Equitable and Inclusive Universal Health Coverage in SRHR.
One of the cornerstones of UHC is ensuring that all individuals have access to essential healthcare services, including comprehensive SRHR services. Within this framework, the active engagement of young people is not just desirable but essential for achieving the ambitious goals of UHC.
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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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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…
