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With support from PMNCH and Women Deliver, the Advocating for Change for Adolescents toolkit was created by young people for young people, to lead and influence change in their communities as well as to hold governments accountable for delivering on their commitments to prioritize adolescents’ health and well-being. The toolkit provides youth-led and youth-serving organizations with the resources and strategies they need to become effective champions and advocates.
Following its launch at the Global Adolescent Health conference in Ottawa in May 2017, five youth organizations (in Cameroon, India, Kenya, Malawi and Nigeria) received grants and technical support to pilot the toolkit over a 12-month period. In December 2018, an updated toolkit was launched at the Partners’ Forum in New Delhi, India. The new edition is more youth-friendly and comprehensive, and includes the five youth-led organization as illustrative case studies.
Grantees have adapted the toolkit to their country’s context and developed country-specific advocacy roadmaps, which are being implemented throughout 2019 with activities at national and subnational levels. Many of the grantees have incorporated the country toolkit into their broader advocacy efforts.
Brief: Rolling out the advocating for change for adolescents toolkit
This advocacy brief: Rolling out the Advocating for Change for Adolescents toolkit in five countries, shares the highlights of, challenges to and lessons learned in the five countries for the period from the project’s inception until June 2019. It focuses on best practices in capacity building, coalition strengthening, advocacy and accountability, as well as engagement in decision-making bodies, including national multistakeholder GFF platforms. It is intended to assist youth-led organizations and national youth coalitions interested in using the advocacy toolkit, including the additional five organizations who will receive grants from PMNCH to roll out the toolkit in 2020-2021 in their respective countries. It will also be relevant to youth-serving organizations and other stakeholders and champions promoting youth-led advocacy.