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"Victor Rasugu" [ Profil ] |
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Oct 16th, 2008 - 01:50:43 |
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- QUESTIONS FOR WEEK FOUR:
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> 1. Are there specific practices or approaches you think would increase
collaboration among young people, development agencies, and national
governments?
Yes
Involve young people
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> 2. How do you think we in general can ensure increased youth
participation and impact in national and local development programmes? Why
or why not?
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> Involve young people into the programs as much as possible, not only
program implementation but also program design and evaluation to develop
young people's ownership of those programs. Now in a lot of countries, young
people are just implementor like peer educators, which can motivate young
people to do some issues, but cannot achieve the full scale youth
participation.
- enhance youth-adult partnership
- position youth issues as development issues
- communicate best practices from other youth to motivate them
- initiation of cross boarder exchange programmes
- translation of ICPD resolutions into venacular to cater for the
illiterate and semi literate youths
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> 3. How can we ensure the invitation and subsequent participation of
young people in the national and regional assessment processes related to
core ICPD efforts (such as family planning, reproductive health, sexually
transmitted disease and gender equality)?
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> $B!i(B It is important that the concept of ICPD be fully understood. The
entire struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) is
premised on the need to reclaim and give content to what constitutes sexual,
sexuality/family life education, family planning$B!D(B. benefits and content
based on best practices and experiences from stakeholders.
$B!i(B Programmes must strengthen the capacity of their staff to be able to
effectively lobby for the implementation and dissemination of the ICPD
declarations
$B!i(B In the struggle to empower the youth with disabilities to reclaim their
rights to pleasurable sexuality, the central focus has been for the rights
and ability of persons with disability to control what happens to their
bodies. As we continue in this struggle, we are constantly challenged by
poverty, sexism, negative attitude towards disability and all kinds of
injustices and discrimination. Empowerment through rights-based approach
must therefore be comprehensive, recognizing the linkages of the economic,
social, political and sexual dimensions.
$B!i(B During the ICPD Cairo Summit, the international community at the
global, regional and national levels recogonised the need for a rights-based
approach to human and social development. Various policy documents
acknowledge ASRH rights as human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human
Rights defines human rights as indivisible and inalienable. Hence everyone
has the right to the enjoyment of his or her human sexuality.
$B!i(B Present day activism of ICPD arises from a long history of opposition
and misrepresentation of facts on its impact. Continuing to advocate for the
implantation of ICPD supporting policies in Kenya without political goodwill
would do very little to ensure the naturalness and harmonization of
sexuality education.
$B!i(B There is need for a consensus among stakeholders on what constitutes
ASRH, sexuality/family life education, family planning$B!D(Bbenefits and content
$B!i(B There is urgency for the inclusion and harmonization of the
implementation process among stakeholders so that it can be easy to monitor
and evaluate the progress made
$B!i(B As embodied in Kenya's ARH&D Policy. The government has the
responsibility to allocate adequate resources and widely consult the
stakeholders to ascertain the progress made, challenges and way forward..
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A candle looses nothing by lighting another candle
Kind regards
Victor Rasugu
Network for Adolescent and Youth of Africa,
P.o Box 46042-00100
Nairobi.
Tel. +254-020-2715002/0705
cell phone. +254724460009
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