Young Omang Pakistan commits to advocate for the inclusion of SRHR in national and provincial policies

We commit to advocate for the government to take immediate measures to ensure that comprehensive programmes with adequate budget allocation for the provision of Life Skills Based Education (LSBE) for all young people are in place, and are being effectively implemented and monitored as part of public sector education, National and provincial governments work together to ensure uniform and consistent guidelines for LSBE curricula development across the provinces, where such curricula includes rights-based information and gender-sensitive content to challenge gender stereotypes, and incorporates inputs from SRHR experts and young people themselves. We ill advocate for national and provincial governments to ensure that all provinces have Youth Policies in place, which include progressive commitments regarding youth and gender friendly SRHR information and services, and are accompanied by costed implementation plans to ensure adequate resources and budgets for their full implementation. We commit to urge national and provincial governments to take immediate measures for the sensitization of duty-bearers, teachers, and healthcare providers on youth-friendly health services, to ensure young people’s access to stigma- and discrimination-free and gender-sensitive health services. Sexuality among young people is little researched in Pakistan, primarily owing to cultural taboos restricting open discussions on sexuality and sexual health in general. Further research and data collection is needed, in order to fully understand the barriers young people face when it comes to realizing their SRHR. It is essential to ensure timely and proper implementation of the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s formulated task force on alarming high population growth rate. There must be special programmatic interventions to address SRHR needs for transgender people and people with disability and we commit to assist the governments in the process.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance
  Young Omang network is a lobbying and advocacy network that is working nationally through 9 organization to make youth policies more inclusive of SRHR, provision of LSBE and YFHS.