Zimbabwe committing to investing in adolescents and youth to harness the demographic dividend

• Improve youth involvement across sectors through enactment of the National Youth Act
and its National Youth Commission;

• Proactively invest in post-secondary school skills building to reduce youth
unemployment by half, by 2030;

• Define and implement policies that promote youth engagement in relevant
developmental issues by 2030;

• Promote health for in school children through implementation of implement the
Zimbabwe School Health Policy;

• Support access to contraception for young people to reduce the high teen pregnancy by
half by 2030

Modes of engagement:

• Change or creation of legislation
  Improve youth involvement across sectors through enactment of the National Youth Act and its National Youth Commission
• Policy and guidance
  Define and implement policies that promote youth engagement in relevant developmental issues by 2030 Promote health for in school children through implementation of implement the Zimbabwe School Health Policy
• Programmatic action
  Proactively invest in post-secondary school skills building to reduce youth unemployment by half, by 2030; Support access to contraception for young people to reduce the high teen pregnancy by half by 2030;