Description

Women Deliver conducted a consultation about youth engagement, which included a literature review, interviews with key stakeholders, and a survey with 600 young people — between the ages of 17-33 from 109 countries and every region of the world — within the organization’s existing network of young SRHR advocates. The goal of this work was to take the initial steps towards improving and enhancing youth engagement by better understanding young people’s own perspectives on the barriers they face and their needs to effectively advocate (especially for SRHR) and enhance their engagement, within the context of existing principles and practices. The result is a glimpse into the way young people themselves want to engage and be engaged, along with initial suggestions of what needs to be done to overcome the longstanding challenges preventing meaningful youth engagement.