Advocating for change for adolescents! A Practical Toolkit for Young People to Advocate for Improved Adolescent Health and Well-being

Overview

We are thrilled to present the second and updated version of the Advocating for Change for Adolescents! toolkit, a joint effort between The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (The Partnership) and Women Deliver. Since the initial launch of the toolkit, the global community has made strides in acknowledging and supporting its underlying ethos: young people are powerful agents of change. With increased access to tools and resources, young people can work to achieve gender equality, the unique needs of adolescents, health for all, and Sustainable Development Goal 3.

And change is happening. The 2018 monitoring report of the Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health highlighted that adolescent mortality worldwide has dropped by 17% since 2000. However, much more needs to be done to address adolescent mental health issues and access to stigma-free health services (especially sexual and reproductive health services).