
Regional Adolescent Health Indaba (RAHi) 16th – 17th December 2020
Theme: Advancing prevention through sustainable solutions led by adolescents and young people.
Hourly Schedule
Day 1
- 08:00 - - 08:30
- Registration
- 09:30 - 10:30
- Reflecting on the event theme
- Welcome remarks Remarks: PHO – Lusaka AYP Voices
- 09:30 - 10:30
- Official opening
- Entertainment: Drama group Remarks: - ZYP - Hivos - UNAIDS - National Aids Council Speech by Guest of Honor - TBC Entertainment: Drama group
- 10:30 - 11:00
- Tea Break
- 11:00 - 12:00
- Setting the Scene
- Plenary: UNAIDS: Current data on HIV in relation to young people in the ESA region UNFPA: Impact of COVID-19 on SRHR Q&A Event Chairpersons
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Expert panel discussion on Community Led Monitoring (CLM):
- Learning from the field: lessons from CLM and accountability processes Panelists - Maxim Lunga (TB, DRC, Rodrick Mugishagwe (TB, Tanzania), Yumnah Hatis/Lucy Wanjiku (Women, Global), Ayo (Malaria/Nigeria) Sibu Malambo (ZYP) Plenary
- 13:00 - 14:00
- Breakout sessions: Session 1; Accountability - Introduction to CSS - Onesmus Mlewa - How to develop a CLM process - Rhoda lewa Session 2; Age of consent consultation - Sharing experiences: Zambia and Zimbabwe - Update on the Zambian process - Consultations Session 3; Advocacy Session 4; Side event with youth leaders
- Informed by Indaba theme accelerators: • Evidence, Policies & Platforms - ensuring access to information, tools, and spaces that enable accountability to take place effectively. • Accountability: Interrogate what’s working for young people in the AIDS response within the region, who’s doing great, what are they doing, how are they doing what they are doing? Interrogate what’s not working for young people in the AIDS response within the region, why is it so, what’s missing, what needs to be fixed, who do we need to in order to improve? Interrogate the overall experience of young people as beneficiaries of GF/UNAIDS and PEPFAR programming in the region?
- 16:00 - 17:00
- Expert Panel Discussion:
- Barriers to SRH services, knowledge and information for young people in their diversity and what to do about i
- 17:00 - 17:15
- Wrap up and end of day one
- 12:30 - 13:00
- Breakout session: Solutions from young people – rapid fire Breakout rooms
Day 2
- 08:00 - 08:30
- Registration
- 08:30 - 09:00
- Recap of day 1 by rapporteur and housekeeping Overview by event chairpersons
- 09:00 - 10:00
- Panel discussion: UNESCO Religious leader CSO Ministry of Youth Ministry of Education AfriYAN Namibia
- The future of CSE: A regional learning and sharing discussion on how to advance the rights and health outcomes of ESA youth through improved skills, attitudes and behaviours resulting from good quality, science based CSE
- 10:00 - 10:15
- Q&A
- 10:15- - 10:45
- Presentation by APHRC
- Evidence, Policies & Platforms: ensuring access to information, tools, and spaces that enable accountability to take place effectively
- 11:15 - 12:30
- Sharing/showcasing AY-led innovative solutions
- - The Zvandiri model - The helpline 393 - Youth-Led Community Led Monitoring - Young people from Uganda - YouthWise Botswana/Zambia
- 14:00 - 15:00
- Panel discussion MYEPL
- Future: Discuss and review best practices and principled based frameworks related to meaningful youth engagement, participation and leadership, interregional learning and sharing of advocacy strategies, tactics as well as impactful approaches to campaigning and harnessing the power of grassroots and social media activism and how this translates into shared regional solidarity amongst adolescents and youth leaders, networks and support from intergenerational partnerships across the region.
- 15:00 - 16:00
- Closing ceremony
- Presentation of the AYP communique Remarks - Hivos - ZYP - MoH Vote of thanks from a young person Final remarks from event chairpersons