Ghana's Youth Commitment
Commitment description:THE “NAIROBI COMMITMENTS”
THE VOICE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN GHANA
This year, as countries, organizations and world leaders prepare towards the Nairobi Summit to be held under the theme “Accelerating the promise”, UNFPA Ghana Youth Leaders Fellows and AFRIYAN Ghana have organized a consultative event for young people to deliberate and have a unified front on the commitments that is representative of young people in Ghana at the Nairobi Summit.
Universal SRHR in the context of UHC
Young people will
1. Advocate for the inclusion of sexual and reproductive health services in the NHIS package
2. Advocate for adolescent and youth friendly SRHR services and safe spaces in community hospitals and health centres near them
3. Commit to honouring postings (as health professionals) to rural areas, and also commit to follow-up and advocacy so that fellow young health professionals do same
4. Advocate for equitable distribution of resources for health facilities across all geographic regions
5. Advocate for the completion/ rehabilitation of infrastructure, including roads, hospitals, clinics, and Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS), irrespective of change in government
6. Advocate for the availability and accessibility of Family Planning services to diverse groups of young people
7. Increase SRHR campaign and education to create awareness among adolescents and youth in Ghana
8. Advocate for availability of quality and disaggregated data to help in programming and SRHR service delivery
9. Ensure persons with disabilities are not discriminated against accessing Family planning information and services
Creating financing momentum
Young people will
1. Engage in fundraising activities, including crowdfunding, to support local projects
2. Engage in social entrepreneurship
3. Work with local government to outsource funding for communal projects
4. Advocate for opportunities of paid internships for young people while in school
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionYoung people will 1. Advocate for the restructuring of DOVVSU to be an autonomous institution or DOVVSU personnel to be included as first respondents to SGBV cases 2. Invest time and resources in educating themselves and friends on SRH/human rights
Address gender-based violence and the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.
