Aiming High: 10 Strategies for Meaningful Youth Engagement
Practical guidelines for meaningful youth engagement for the use of programmers, policymakers, civil society and others.
Young people aged 15–24 account for 40% of new HIV infections globally. Cultural expectations of ‘appropriate’ behaviour and norms around discussing sexuality often make access to integrated HIV and SRHR services difficult for young people.
Compounded by stigma and discrimination, imbalanced power dynamics, gender inequality and lack of confidentiality, young people living with and affected by HIV are particularly likely to be excluded from SRHR programming and policy.
In this brief we provide practical guidelines for meaningful youth engagement for the use of programmers, policymakers, civil society and others who wish to work with young people in an inclusive and equitable way.
Examples of how the 10 strategies can be applied, drawn from the Link Up project, are given in five areas of meaningful youth engagement in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and HIV integration. These can be adapted and applied to any level of decision-making and programming.
Watch our film on meaningful youth engagement (French version link below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96R2R7E5McY&feature=youtu.be
Aiming High: 10 Strategies for Meaningful Youth Engagement
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Dans ce document nous formulons des directives pratiques pour une participation significative des jeunes. Ce document peut être utilisé par les responsables des programmes, des responsables de l’élaboration des politiques, de la société civile et d’autres entités souhaitant travailler avec les jeunes de façon inclusive et équitable. En nous inspirant du projet Link Up, nous avons fournis des exemples sur la façon dont les 10 stratégies peuvent être appliquées; ces exemples couvrent cinq domaines concernés par la participation significative des jeunes à l’intégration des droits de santé sexuelle et reproductive (DSSR) et du VIH. L’on peut les adapter et les appliquer à tout niveau de prise de decision et de programmation.
This article was written as the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, before we changed our name to Frontline AIDS.