ACTION AID: Launch of the Youth-Led Advocacy Project in Chipata and Choma Districts

Filling Gaps, Driving Change! We are excited to announce the launch of the Youth Led Advocacy Project (Y-LAP), aimed at enhancing healthcare quality, including SRH, HIV, and other services for adolescents and young people, especially in Chipata and Choma Districts.

PEPFAR Community-Led Monitoring

Community-led monitoring (CLM) is an accountability mechanism for HIV responses at different levels, led and implemented by local community-led organizations of people living with HIV, networks of key populations, other affected groups or other community entities. The Zambian Youth platform

Inclusive Adolescent and Youth Empowerment

The Zambian Youth Platform with support from Global Fund through the Churches Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ) has continued to promote inclusive adolescent and youth empowerment through coordinated advocacy. Through the Integrated Health Services Project (IHSP), ZYP trained nine schools

AGYW Participation in CCM Meeting

AGYW through the youth constituency of the CCM were presented with an opportunity to attend the 2nd quarter GF-CCM meeting where they presented a position paper highlighting recommendations made by adolescents and young people at the Regional Adolescent Health Indaba

Positive Youth Development

Based on the literature, the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs, a collaboration of 22 federal departments and agencies that support youth, has created the following definition of positive youth development (PYD): PYD is an intentional, prosocial approach that engages youth

Promoting program/activities to other youth and adults

Youth should have a lead role in promoting and presenting information about the program and the activities that will be offered. Recruiting youth and getting them to participate in programs and activities can be strengthened when their peers describe what