FP2030’s Youth Strategy from the North, West, and Central Africa Hub
FP2030’s North, West, and Central Africa Hub, based in Abuja, Nigeria, aims to enhance family planning through youth engagement. The Adolescent and Youth Strategy focuses on innovative service delivery, data-driven decision-making, and empowering youth leadership to address high teenage pregnancy rates and unmet contraceptive needs in the region.
A KM Champion’s Journey to Incorporate Knowledge Management Into His Youth-led Work in India
Abhinav Pandey from the YP Foundation in India, emphasizes the importance of knowledge management (KM) in enhancing youth-led initiatives. Through his experiences as a KM Champion, he has integrated strategies like knowledge cafes and resource sharing to improve family planning and reproductive health programs across Asia, fostering collaboration among diverse organizations.
The Safe Love Project: Leveraging Dating Apps as a Tool to Ignite Essential Conversations About Sexual Health
The Safe Love initiative (India) by the Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3) (and with support from the Packard Foundation and TrulyMadly) leverages a popular Indian dating app to provide young people with essential sexual and reproductive health information, focusing on safer sex practices, contraceptive methods, and STI prevention. This project aims to educate and empower young
ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Technology: Transforming Tech for Feminist Inclusion
The ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Technology, held in New York in June 2024, aimed to harness the transformative power of technology to advance women's rights. Key takeaways include the potential of feminist-centered technology to address gender-based violence and inequalities, the need for intersectional feminist approaches to technology development, and the importance of government and tech corporations
Empowering Young People to Make Healthy Sexual and Reproductive Health Choices: Lessons from Heroes for Gender Transformative Action in Uganda
Knowledge SUCCESS, in collaboration with the WHO/IBP Network, is featuring implementation stories that showcase implementers who have successfully navigated complexities to deliver impactful outcomes. This feature story on the Heroes for Gender Transformative Action Program (Heroes4GTA).
Advancing Measurement of HIPs
The Research for Scalable Solutions and SMART-HIPs projects—hosted a four-part webinar series on Advancing Measurement of High Impact Practices (HIPs) in Family Planning. The webinar series aimed to share new insights and tools that can strengthen how HIP implementation is measured in order to support strategic decision-making.
ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity and Sustainable Development
Held on May 15-16, 2024 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity and Sustainable Development focused on how our world's changing demographics impact sustainable development, with a special emphasis on promoting gender equality, advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
ICPD30 Global Youth Dialogue: My Journey Toward Empowering the Future
In April 2024, United Nations Population Fund hosted the ICPD30 Global Youth Dialogue in Cotonou, Benin. The dialogue provided a unique platform for youth activists, policymakers, and regional and intergovernmental organizations to collaborate on sexual and reproductive health and rights, education, human rights, and gender equality.
Intergenerational Dialogues Tackle Family Planning Taboos in Mali
MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience (MIHR), in collaboration with the government of Mali, is implementing demand creation and social behavior change interventions to promote positive attitudes and supportive cultural norms for family planning and related health services, particularly for youth.
Addressing Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
Knowledge SUCCESS and TheCollaborative CoP hosted a webinar to explore insights on technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TF-GBV) in East Africa. Hear powerful stories from TF-GBV survivors and discover effective interventions and digital safety tools.