Kenyan youth advocates gather to refine a youth-friendly social accountability toolkit for ICPD+25 Programme of Action
Empowering the youth is our responsibility, and the youth will be empowered with more investment on them. –Shehbaz Sharif 9th December 2019: When you hear social accountability, what comes to mind? Well, this is what youth advocates from different parts of Kenya gathered in Nairobi to decipher. More specifically, to map out a clear role […]
TIME TO ACT NOW: KENYA PLEDGES TO END TEENAGE PREGNANCIES BY 2030
“Upholding the rights of women and girls is a game-changer!” Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General. Kenya was not left behind in the renewed hope to accelerate the Cairo promise during the ICPD25 Nairobi Summit, held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) between 12th and 14th November. More than 6000 delegates from all […]
Youth Perspectives on UHC in Kenya
Kenya has one of the most youthful populations across the continent, with over 70% population aged below 35 years. This marks a time when the importance of their role in improving policies to meet their needs is at its greatest and portrays a potential for Kenyan youth to shift the policy landscape in the country. […]
Announcing New Advisory Group Members
Youth Leading all the way. Y-ACT director, Evalin Karijo nominated to the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism (CSEM) for #UHC2030. Read Full Article here https://csemonline.net/announcing-new-advisory-group-members/
Who says young people can’t ‘build bridges’?
With 11 million youth aged 15-24 — a whole 20.92 per cent, or a fifth, of the population — one must wonder why there was a deliberate sidelining of this demographic from the onset of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). If we are going to solve the youth unemployment crisis, we must start by giving […]
Youth at the center of universal access to sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) and HIV response
Nairobi, KENYA- As world leaders, policy makers, and civil society congregated in Nairobi in November 2019 to mark the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), youth committed to push for the fifth commitment on access to sexual and reproductive health rights. During its inception in Cairo, the leaders present committed […]
Transformational leadership: Investing in Africa’s youth for better Universal Health Coverage outcomes
Leadership is the art of leading others to deliberately create a result that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. – Unknown Leadership is about influence, not authority. Transformational Leadership has been quite the buzz word in 21st Century. Great transformational leaders lead through inspiration, persuasion and personal connections, spurring group members to work to their highest potential. […]
The power of media in ICPD25
Journalists and other members of the fourth estate offer to the public facts and figures, examples, experience through feature stories, insight, opinions and clarification. With regard to the international conference on population and development (ICPD25), journalists at the media breakfast were urged to put people at the heart of their discussions. They were urged to […]
Partnerships for development towards realizing the Big Four agenda: ICPD Nairobi Summit
Nairobi, November 6, 2019: The National Council for Population and Development, in conjunction with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Amref Health Africa held a media breakfast to create awareness and inform media stakeholders why the ICPD summit is critical for the development of the country as well as the role it will play […]
Getting Disruptive: Step Up Campaign Write-shop on Reducing Teenage Pregnancies in Kenya
30 June 2019, KENYA- Y-ACT, Youth in Action- a youth-led network of youth in Kenya led in hosting a multi-sectoral write shop dubbed “Step Up the Fight to End Teenage Pregnancies in Kenya” on 24-25th June 2019 to design a national campaign that was focused on accelerated action by various stakeholders on the teenage pregnancy […]