Month: August 2021

Proteger la salud y los derechos de las mujeres afganas

Portrait of young muslim woman wearing formal wear, protect face mask and hijab head scarf, hold Afghanistan flag card against isolated background. Coronavirus country concept.

La alianza FP2030 está extremadamente consternada por los derechos de las mujeres y su capacidad para acceder a los servicios de planificación familiar bajo el régimen talibán.

News and Updates from FP2030

Today, as the world celebrates International Youth Day, it's important to recognize that the first global calls for youth participation predate the young people of today.

The Power of Rights-based Contraception for Young People

We often hear that “young people are the future,” and although it might be a cliche, it’s true — young people will inherit the world we live in, and their decisions will affect the future for generations to come. Yet many young people are still left out when it comes to accessing rights-based contraception and participating in conversations and programs about family planning. Too often we hear that young people are not mature enough for these kinds of conversations, that asking for contraceptives is wrong, and that this taboo subject is better avoided than discussed. However, if we were to face those misconceptions and grant young people universal access to rights-based contraception in our health care systems, we would get one step closer to achieving gender equality, increasing literacy rates and other prosperity indicators, and, consequently, enhancing a region’s economic growth.

Senior Leadership: It’s Time to Share Your Power

Over a long career, I’ve had the pleasure of working almost exclusively with adolescents and young people, as both colleagues and clients. I love the energy, enthusiasm, optimism, ideas, and curiosity of young people. I’ve learned a lot from them, and I hope they’ve learned from me. But what’s become increasingly apparent to me are increasingly intense feelings of frustration on the part of young people at being tokenized or trivialized, at not being listened to seriously, at not being treated like professionals, and impatience with the status quo. Recently, an old friend and I were talking about his experiences as a college student, volunteering for an organization that was addressing hunger and poverty around the world, and his still deeply felt frustration that ‘if the adults had just gotten out of our way, we could have achieved some real progress!’” We had a good laugh over that because really, not much has changed.

Coming soon! New Collaboration for Equitable Partnerships with Young People

Copper Rose Zambia, IYAFP, and other youth-led organisations, with the support of FP2030, are taking the movement for equitable partnerships with young people to the next level by launching a new group to advocate for equitable and genuine partnerships with young people. Together, we called for youth-led organizations to apply to collaborate with us. We received over 500 applications in just a couple weeks, and now we’re reviewing these and will announce the full group soon!

Nigeria: Ministry urges media to create more awareness on family planning

A mother interacting with her daughter, and using reading and coloring books as part of TOSTAN's Reinforcement of Parental Practices Module, where by applying the knowledge gained during the Reinforcement of Parental Practices Module, parents and community members will give children an excellent start in their social, linguistic, and emotional growth. This healthy development will in turn lead to more children staying in and excelling in school, and improve child parent relationship.

The Federal Ministry of Health has urged the media to create more awareness on family planning to enable Nigeria achieve a better modern contraceptive prevalence rate by 2024. Director, Reproductive Health in the ministry, Dr Kayode Afolabi, made the call in Abuja on Friday during an online media training for health reporters and features writers.… Continue reading Nigeria: Ministry urges media to create more awareness on family planning

Ghana: Don’t deny adolescents of family planning services

Mrs. Ellen Darkoa Asare, Eastern Regional Head, Reproductive Health Unit of the Ghana Health Service, says denying adolescents of family planning services would cause more harm than good considering the growing teenage pregnancies countrywide.

Faith leaders can change the story of contraception in Nigeria and save thousands

The Imbuto Foundation is a Rwandan organization dedicated to advancing health, education, and youth empowerment. A key component of its Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Program is the Parent Adolescent Communication Forum, where parents and children are grouped by generation and gender to openly discuss family matters, including sexual and reproductive health questions. A participant in a men's focus group is pictured here.

Earlier this month, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunnimbe Mamora, said that more widespread use of family planning can reduce maternal deaths by 30 percent, saving the lives of about 18,000 women every year.