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- 1. FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE Your Health, Our Concern MEANINGFUL YOUTH PARTICIPATION Youth Centered Approach Presented by Kevin Karuga 13th November 2019 ICPD25+ Nairobi summit
- 2. FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE Your Health, Our Concern • FHOK embraces young people as partners hence a more youth- centered approach. • FHOK is committed to youth-friendliness and ensures young people are at the center of everything; meaningful youth participation. • Focuses on young people’s lives and needs, from their own perspectives, to deliver services, programmes and interventions that are truly shaped by them, and thus relevant, inclusive and effective. INTRODUCTION
- 3. FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE Your Health, Our Concern • Being youth-centered is about encouraging young people to think, question, explore and search for answers, and in doing so they get empowered to transform their lives and to influence the cultural context and local power dynamics that affect their lives. • It builds on FHOK current three-pronged approach to youth sexual and reproductive health and rights, including: 1) Youth-Friendly Services, 2) Comprehensive Sexuality Education 3) Social and policy change Why YCA?
- 4. FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE Your Health, Our Concern Young People Are… Decision makers Clients Advocates Educators and Trainers Staff Volunteers
- 5. FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE Your Health, Our Concern OBJECTIVES OF MYP/YCA • To provide a forum and set mechanisms for young people to express themselves as decision makers • To build leadership capacities among young people • To promote equal partnership between young people and adults • To have a strong network of young people that can easily be mobilized to accelerate SRHR
- 6. FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE Your Health, Our Concern PRINCIPLES OF MYP 1. Young people are SEXUAL BEINGS and their sexuality should be a source of pleasure that contributes to their overall fulfillment and happiness 2. Young people are AGENTS OF CHANGE: they have the capacity and agency to fight for their own rights and the rights of others 3. Young people’s EXPERIENCES, PERSPECTIVES, OPINIONS AND ASPIRATIONS must be at the core of efforts to realize their rights
- 7. FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE Your Health, Our Concern 4. Young people’s RIGHTS AND PARTICIPATION are central to all sexual and reproductive health programmes, service delivery, CSE and policy making 5. Young people’s INTRA AND INTERGENERATIONAL relationships and transitions, in their unique cultural and political contexts, influence their sexual rights as they grow up and thus must be taken into account in youth programming
- 8. FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE Your Health, Our Concern THE CORE ELEMENTS OF MYP • FREEDOM OF CHOICE • INFORMATION • DECISION-MAKING POWER • VOICE • RESPONSIBILITY
- 9. FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE Your Health, Our Concern DELIVERY OF YCA • Provide youth-friendly services & CSE • Young people take an active role in decision making and programme delivery. (They identify problems and find solutions) • Young people know and exercise their right to sexual and reproductive health • Understand young people’s context, realities and identities • Challenge gender norms, build confidence and skills
- 10. FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE Your Health, Our Concern ENABLERS OF MYP/ YCA Capacity strengthening Inclusivity Enabling environment Youth Commitment
- 11. FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE Your Health, Our Concern Youth Friendly Vs Youth Centred Youth Friendly Youth Centered Believes that adults are the experts on youth needs. Youth are experts of their own evolving needs Youth have information that they can share with adult decision makers. Youth bring valued perspective, strengths and resources. Adults are friendly and respectful to Youth and interaction is an opportunity for Youth education. Partnership based on trust respect, honesty and open communication. Purpose is identified by the adults and successes are measured by the adults. The purpose is Youth empowerment.
- 12. FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE Your Health, Our Concern Monitoring and Evaluation • Monitor the priority plans/objectives this should include both qualitative and quantitative monitoring. • Monitor:- • Institutional commitment and Policies. • Programme Improvement. • Human Resources. • Operations .
- 13. FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern FAMILY HEALTH OPTIONS KENYA Your Health, Our Concern AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE Your Health, Our Concern “Actualizing Youth Leadership in SRHR Programming” WATCH US ON YOUTUBE @FHOK Smartvybez TV