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Opportunities: Communities and Health in Sustainable Development Phaladi
- 1. OPPORTUNITIES: COMMUNITIES AND HEALTH IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOGONTLEJANG PHALADI PMNCH AYC CHAIR
- 2. PMNCH A & Y CONSTITUENCY CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTING THE ADOLESCENTS HEALTH PORTFOLIO: MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME CROSS CONSTITUENCY REPRESENTATION ADVOCATING FOR CHANGE FOR ADOLESCENTS TOOLKIT (WITH WOMEN DELIVER) MEANINGFUL YOUTH ENGAGEMENT & ACCOUNTABILITY BRIEFS/ COUNTRY ACTIONS ESTABLISHED IN 2015 FOLLOWING A BOARD DECISION 2016 GIVEN 2 BOARD SEATS
- 3. “AN AXE CANNOT CUT A TREE BY ITSELF.” – AFRICAN PROVERB
- 4. WHAT ARE YOUNG PEOPLE DOING?? • ORGANIZING • MOBILIZING • REACHING OUT • DELIVERING SERVICES • COLLECTING DATA • ADVOCACY
- 5. GREAT COMMUNITY LED RESPONSE- YOUTH IN ACTION • Behavioural change campaigns and home based care volunteerism- HIV & AIDS response (Botswana) • Ebola response (Sierra Leone) • Ending Child Marriages (Malawi) • Sanitary towels procurement for girls by Govt (Botswana & Kenya) • ON-GOING: advocacy against Tanzanian President’s ban on teenage mothers going back to school
- 7. YOUNG PEOPLE AS ‘PARTNERS’ FOR DEV THAN JUST BENEFICIARIES • “You cannot shave some’s head in their absence.” –African Proverb A.K.A “Nothing for us without us” • Such a large majority cannot be unheard • Young people are able to mobilize themselves, adopt modern & advanced technologies for efficiency • Economic benefits: demographic dividend // worst case scenario • Why have we lost faith in youth leadership yet many institutions and countries were built by young people in their 20s
- 8. OBSTACLES TO OVERCOME • DATA DEFICITS: In God we trust, in programming we need data. What is not counted doesn’t count. • Reaching the ‘hard to reach’ and bringing onboard voices of the marginalized (including those in humanitarian & fragile settings) • Governance deficits and poor/ ingenuine political will • Monitor and Review but also ACT!! • Rigid legislation- dual legal systems • Financing • Shrinking spaces for advocacy on certain ‘taboo’ issues • New behavioural trends • Leadership: health tourism
- 9. WHAT CAN STILL BE DONE • Advocacy for domestication of human rights treaties- fosters citizen led accountability • Institutionalized adolescents responsive budgeting • Harness DRM- CSR, SE, Philanthropy • Capacity building – no tokenism • Value preposition investment case • Reach out to ‘hard to reach communities’- Agric/ Immunization • Prioritization: expensive ceremonies v.s procuring commodities • Basics then quality • Collaboration, coordination and complementarity • Don’t ignore community leadership – FBO, CO
- 11. INNOVATE FOR EFFICIENCY • BOT PLATFORM • INTERGRATED HEALTH COMMODITY MONITORY SYSTEM • SIGN GLOVE • USSD PLATFORMS • REMINDERS FOR CHECK UPS FOR EXPECTANT MOTHER (POST & PRE), BLOOD TESTS, MEDICATION REFILL (e.g DRTS)