Focus Areas
Working towards global reproductive choice; autonomy and empowerment; and gender equality.
Commitment Makers
Creating a future for women and girls with the freedom and ability to lead healthy lives.
A group of youth-led organizations – supported by FP2030 – is setting out to challenge the Sexual and Reproductive health and Rights field (especially governments, iNGOs, and donors)and take the movement for equitable partnerships with young people to the next level!
We (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!
This last month, we’ve been celebrating LGBTI Pride as well as the second Generation Equality Forum in Paris. This is a good opportunity to recognize that the FP2030 partnership will be bigger and more inclusive, engaging partners beyond the family planning sector. People everywhere and in every body have the right to choose when or whether to have children, and they have the right to live healthy lives — and these rights are foundational to achieving gender equality. This is just one of the many ways FP2030 commitments are aligned with Generation Equality.
Reflections on the anniversary of the ECHO study
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that everyone’s health is deeply interconnected. We recognized this in the Sustainable Development goals, in SDG3: good health and well being for all. But we will never achieve this goal by segmenting people and their health care. This applies to family planning as well. For too long, family planning has been siloed as a “women’s issue,” but if the most excluded and stigmatized people in our communities can’t use the family planning services available, we won’t succeed in meeting our family planning goals.
We are young people living with HIV from 11 African countries who make up the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s Committee of African Youth Advisors (CAYA). In our respective countries, we hold different roles such as peer educators, youth champions, and youth advocates. We also actively engage in dialogues about adolescent and youth reproductive health at national and local levels.
Most organizations who work with and for young people strive to genuinely involve young people in their work—after all ‘nothing about us, without us’ is a slogan we’ve heard time and time again. This serves as a reminder that if you want programs and policies targeted at young people to work, you must have youth’s full and meaningful participation.
We have been energized as we hear from partners around the world who are in the process of developing their FP2030 commitments. Governments are collaborating with civil society and youth organizations to shape national commitments using many of the resources in the FP2030 commitments toolkit to guide their discussions. If your organization is considering making a commitment, the toolkit will walk you through the steps and underlying principles, with links to key resources to inform your commitment.
The OPCU recently hosted a webinar, Family Planning in a Humanitarian Crisis: How to Maintain Services and Strengthen the Resilience of Populations and Health Systems, as a chance to continue conversations raised at the OP annual meeting in December.
Beverly Nkirote, FP2030 Youth Focal Point for Kenya, is a Program Officer at the Network for Adolescents and Youth of Africa (NAYA), a youth-led regional advocacy network committed to sexual and reproductive health and rights advocacy.
