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Harnessthe promise of the demographic dividend in West Africa

In West Africa, Italy will support the improvement of youth access and quality to health care and services, the building and strengthening of mechanisms for the youth empowering as well as promote campaigns for the social and behavioral change of adolescents.

New Bill in the Republic of Kazakhstan on prevention and response to gender-based violence and ratification of Istanbul Convention

Measures are being taken to create in society an atmosphere of “zero tolerance” for violence against women and children. A Bill has been submitted to Parliament providing for tougher penalties for sexual violence against children, for domestic violence against women, and for human trafficking.
Deputies of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan initiated a new version of the Law on the prevention of domestic violence, which is currently being considered. This Bill...

(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.

Mode of engagement:

• Change or creation of legislation

Financing Youth Friendly SRH services in the Republic of Kazakhstan

Starting from January 2020, in addition to the State Guaranteed Health Benefit Package which already provides free services to all pregnant women, the Government will cover 91 outpatient Youth Friendly Sexual and Reproductive Health Services through a newly introduced Social Health Insurance System. This will cover all Young People, including those under 18, all university and vocational students as well as all unemployed (officially registered) Young People below 28 years of age.
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(4) Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and  gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood.

Mode of engagement:

• Budgetary and financial

Young people at policy tables

We commit to working with the Government and stakeholders to ensure that the diversity within the group of youth is respected, and their special need is recognized. We will work to reduce the unmet need for family planning services and information among young people with disabilities by building their advocacy capacity and linking them with the government for meaningful space at policy level, to lobby for young people with disability-friendly family
planning policies at the national,...

(11) Committing to the notion that nothing about young people’s health and well-being can be discussed and decided upon without their meaningful involvement and participation (“nothing about us, without us”).

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Menstrual health friendly community

We commit to working with the Government and stakeholders to collaborate for zero tolerance to menstrual discrimination. We commit to achieving that by building the capacity of young people to make rights-based informed decisions related to their menstrual health practices, and to be able to demand menstrual health-friendly community with their gatekeepers such as school management, teachers, parents, peers, community and local government.

Building Child Marriage Free Communities

The Her Choice alliance commits to zero harmful practices, including child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM). The 27 partner organizations of the Her Choice alliance in 10 countries in Africa and Asia commit to:

i) empower 200.000 girls by providing the opportunity to build their knowledge and skills to exercise their right to choose if, when, and whom to marry;
ii) mobilize 3000 communities to raise awareness of the harmful consequences of child marriage and FGM,...

(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.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Policy and Program

To advocate for policies and programs of action that raise awareness, mindset change to mitigate/reverse the widespread crisis of teenage pregnancies in African communities.

Based on successful experience of supporting leadership capacity building in advocacy for youth-led organizations, we commit to mobilize stakeholders to create and sustain networks and communities of practice in Africa for youth responsive programs

Zero Preventable Death

This aim will be documented in official strategic plans and programs and, monitored as a performance criterion. In order to access zero preventable maternal death goals full Financial and Service Coverage Will Be Provided Under The Universal Health Coverage Scheme Not Only At The Public Health Care Facilities But Also In Private Hospitals. That coverage includes nearly 4 million guests living in Türkiye under temporary protection.

All young people, including LGBTIQ of Nepal, will have access to Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Quality and timely SRHR services including Safe Abortion Service.

We as a Youth Group of Nepal commit to:

- Generate evidence on young people's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) needs to support informed decision-making by the government at all levels by 2022.

- Increase demand for Comprehensive Sexuality Education and quality SRHR Services including safe abortion at grass-root level by generating and mobilizing youth advocates from all diversity including LGBTIQ for promotion and implementation of Comprehensive Sexuality...

(4) Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and  gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood.

Modes of engagement:

• Policy and guidance
• Programmatic action

To raise awereness and mobilize resources to combat SGBV, family planing and reproductive health issues

I commit:
1. To mobilize resources jointly with the development partners to conduct a gender analysis on different categories of diseases and access of various groups of men and women to medical services as a part of the monitoring and assessment of the implementation of national strategies and action plans;
2. To use the analysis’ findings for recommending and then lobbying adjustments to the legal framework and provision of medical services; In partnership with international...

(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.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action