PPD & UNFPA to organize webinar on youth engagement

The Partners in Population and Development (PPD) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are jointly organising a webinar, titled, "Harnessing Youth Engagement to Address SRHR through SSTC in Post-Covid Era," on Thursday, September 22, 2022.

The webinar speakers will include Alice Michira, youth leader from Kenya, Nthabiseng Mogashoa, youth leader from South Africa, Loza Admassu, youth RH focal person, St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia, and Mohammad Mamun Mia, youth leader from Bangladesh. Junjian Gaoshan, the youth leader from China, will moderate the discussion, and officials from the PPD and UNFPA will deliver introductory remarks.

PPD, a global Inter-Governmental Organization (IGO) comprising 27 developing countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, represents more than 60% of the world population, including a large share of youth population. In collaboration with the UNFPA, the PPD seeks to promote population and reproductive health agenda for sustainable development through youth-led South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC), reads a press release.

Given that the young people have effectively played the diverse roles of service providers, educators and change makers over the course of the pandemic, it is of vital importance that they are integrated into the formal decision-making processes, political mechanisms, and global development agendas in order to achieve more inclusive and equitable policy outcomes.

The webinar will thus address effective ways to raise a new generation that would commit to the responsibility of promoting and protecting Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in the post-Covid era, and help deliver on the promises of ICPD25 and the SDGs.

The webinar will be streamed live on PPD's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ppdsecretariat