Capacity Building of Adolescents and Youth as advocates for Health

Objectives

To build the capacity of adolescents and youth (aged 15-30 years) as advocates for their health along with their meaningful engagements in various youth-led activities for:

• Imparting leadership and communication skills among adolescents and youth to equip them for strengthening the youth-led regional and national actions
• Providing support to conceptualize and implement theme-specific campaigns on health at national level

Methodology

• Nomination of Adolescents and youths (2/ country) to become “Health Champions”
• Training of the nominated participants using the UNICEF Youth Advocacy Guide
• Trained health champions to establish National Hub and train minimum 40 young people in their
  countries
• Country level Action plan to be developed and submitted to Regional Hub (HRIDAY and SYAN)
• Opportunities to implement selected country level action plans and submission of the case studies

Results

• Capacitating Health Champion to become young advocates to lead regional and national action plans for adolescent health
• Strengthening meaningful involvement of adolescents and youth people in the adolescent health programs and implementation of youth-led activities