Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Responses
Description: In each pilot country (Thailand, Botswana, and Papua New Guinea), a
diverse team of young people works with an adult mentor to research existing policies
and strategies on RH/HIV for youth, interviews NGOs and government agencies, and
conducts a field assessment with young people involved in RH/HIV programs. Each
team develops a report outlining the recommendations, findings, and priorities of young
people and presents them to the “adult” teams for prospective enclosure into the final
documents.
Lessons learned: Through building key analytic skills and technical capacities, and by
pairing with adult mentors, teams of young people were able to significantly contribute to
national and UN level planning processes, thereby strengthening the youth component of
many strategic documents. As a result, it is hoped that the CCA processes will make
greater efforts to involve young people, as the contributions of youth in these processes
have now been established. In addition, a case study comparing CCA processes that
involved youth members and those that did not - which includes an analysis of how youth
issues were addressed in each situation - is being prepared.
Recommendations: Greater efforts to meaningfully involve young people in national
processes and strategic planning should be made as young people’s involvement
improves the relevance and technical approach to planning processes.