Youth Peace and Security (YPS)
YPS in Practice: Engaging Youth and Communities for Conflict Prevention, Resolution, and Peace building.
YPS in Practice: Engaging Youth and Communities for Conflict Prevention, Resolution, and Peace building.
The Kenyan constitution, varuouys policies, laws and strategies strongly recognise the right to highest attainable health to everyone. However, there are still demand and supply gaps in terms of access, quality and uptake of RH services and information among adolescent and youth especially the marginalized and vulnerable ones.
According to National Council for Population and Development ( NCPD), the major challenges Kenyan youth face that have direct impact on their health and wellbeing include; (1) low quality education, (2) early and risky sexual encounters (3) low contraceptive use and unmet needs despite demand (4) HIV/AIDS, and (5) unintended pregnancy, early marriage and early child bearing. All these issues compound to increased dependency ratio and a struggling economic growth, yet the SRH of this group is rarely planned, resourced and meticulously implemented.
Young people develop many of the habits, behaviours and relationships that they will carry into their adult lives. Their habits, health seeking behaviours and the choices they make at this stage in life have both direct and indirect impact on their lives and it affects their productivity in terms of personal and national development.
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Improve adolescents and youth health indicators and conditions through responsive, accessible and quality health services and information, and preventive care within PHC and UHC frameworks.
We believe in improved access to quality and responsive Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Mental Health, Nutritional and Non Communicable services and information among young people especially those marginalized and vulnerable adolescents and youth in Kenya.
We believe that when young people are empowered and supported, they make informed rights based health decisions and have healthy relationships devoid of risky behaviours and partner violence.
We believe that meaningfully adolescents and youth engagement in policy, advocacy, and service and information delivery and demand creation, in partnership with stakeholders and adult partnership, is key to reducing the negative indicators.
The young people through their organizations/agencies and networks understand and appreciate the unique yet extremely diverse health seeking behaviours of this demography. Their efforts can help reduce access barriers and sexually education and health literacy gaps that promote early and risky sexual encounters, unmet contraception demands, unsafe abortion, HIV/AIDS, unwanted pregnancy, early marriage and early child bearing.