This document outlines Family Health Options Kenya's approach to meaningful youth participation and youth-centered programming. It advocates embracing young people as partners and ensuring they are at the center of efforts to deliver relevant and effective sexual and reproductive health services and programs. The key aspects of FHOK's approach include building youth leadership, promoting equal youth-adult partnerships, providing youth-friendly services and comprehensive sexuality education, and empowering young people to make decisions about and help shape the programs that affect their lives and health.

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MEANINGFUL YOUTH
PARTICIPATION
Youth Centered Approach
Presented by Kevin Karuga
13th November 2019
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• FHOK embraces young people as partners hence a more youth-
centered approach.
• FHOK is committed to youth-friendliness and ensures young
people are at the center of everything; meaningful youth
participation.
• Focuses on young people’s lives and needs, from their own
perspectives, to deliver services, programmes and interventions
that are truly shaped by them, and thus relevant, inclusive and
effective.
INTRODUCTION

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• Being youth-centered is about encouraging young people to think,
question, explore and search for answers, and in doing so they get
empowered to transform their lives and to influence the cultural
context and local power dynamics that affect their lives.
• It builds on FHOK current three-pronged approach to youth sexual
and reproductive health and rights, including:
1) Youth-Friendly Services,
2) Comprehensive Sexuality Education
3) Social and policy change
Why YCA?

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Young People Are…
Decision
makers
Clients
Advocates
Educators
and
Trainers
Staff
Volunteers

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OBJECTIVES OF MYP/YCA
• To provide a forum and set mechanisms for young people to
express themselves as decision makers
• To build leadership capacities among young people
• To promote equal partnership between young people and adults
• To have a strong network of young people that can easily be
mobilized to accelerate SRHR

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PRINCIPLES OF MYP
1. Young people are SEXUAL BEINGS and their sexuality should be
a source of pleasure that contributes to their overall fulfillment
and happiness
2. Young people are AGENTS OF CHANGE: they have the capacity
and agency to fight for their own rights and the rights of others
3. Young people’s EXPERIENCES, PERSPECTIVES, OPINIONS AND
ASPIRATIONS must be at the core of efforts to realize their
rights

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4. Young people’s RIGHTS AND PARTICIPATION are central to all
sexual and reproductive health programmes, service delivery,
CSE and policy making
5. Young people’s INTRA AND INTERGENERATIONAL
relationships and transitions, in their unique cultural and
political contexts, influence their sexual rights as they grow up
and thus must be taken into account in youth programming

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THE CORE ELEMENTS OF MYP
• FREEDOM OF CHOICE
• INFORMATION
• DECISION-MAKING POWER
• VOICE
• RESPONSIBILITY

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DELIVERY OF YCA
• Provide youth-friendly services & CSE
• Young people take an active role in decision making and
programme delivery. (They identify problems and find solutions)
• Young people know and exercise their right to sexual and
reproductive health
• Understand young people’s context, realities and identities
• Challenge gender norms, build confidence and skills

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ENABLERS OF MYP/ YCA
Capacity strengthening
Inclusivity
Enabling environment
Youth Commitment

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Youth Friendly Vs Youth Centred
Youth Friendly Youth Centered
Believes that adults are the experts on
youth needs.
Youth are experts of their own
evolving needs
Youth have information that they can
share with adult decision makers.
Youth bring valued perspective,
strengths and resources.
Adults are friendly and respectful to
Youth and interaction is an
opportunity for Youth education.
Partnership based on trust respect,
honesty and open communication.
Purpose is identified by the adults and
successes are measured by the adults.
The purpose is Youth empowerment.

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Monitoring and Evaluation
• Monitor the priority plans/objectives this should include both
qualitative and quantitative monitoring.
• Monitor:-
• Institutional commitment and Policies.
• Programme Improvement.
• Human Resources.
• Operations .

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“Actualizing
Youth Leadership in SRHR
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