YouthPolicy'com Better Policy, Healthier Youth

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Youth-Policy.com Better Policy, Healthier Youth
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Objectives

• Access to full-text youth RH and HIV/AIDS
  policies
• Guidance on formulating good policy
• Exchange of information and networking

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Intended users
Youth-Policy.com Website

• Youth advocates
• Young people
• Policymakers
• Technical assistance groups
• USAID and other intl organizations
• YRH program managers

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Main Components
Youth-Policy.com Website

• Policy database
• Framework for YRH Policymaking
• Links and resources

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Key Elements
Youth-Policy.com Website

• Encouraging healthy, wanted pregnancy
• Preventing STI/HIV infection
• Improving nutritional status
• Reducing harmful cultural practices
• Reducing human trafficking and sexual
  abuse/coercion
• Stimulating economic development and reduce
  poverty

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Dimensions
Youth-Policy.com Website

• Level
• Sector
• Type
• Authorship

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Guiding Principles
Youth-Policy.com Website

• Good Policies
• Acknowledge gender differences
• Segment the youth population by age and life
  stage
• Acknowledge the needs of marginalized
  sub-populations
• Address sexual orientation
• Promote youth involvement
• Respect culture
• Treat youth as assets, not problems
• Promote access to information and services
• Are consistent
• Reinforce the inter-connectedness of YRH

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Marketing
Youth-Policy.com Website

• Via the internet
• Face-to-face
• Meetings and Special Events
• Dissemination of Print materials
• Collection of new policies for database and/or
  related documents

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Monitoring
Youth-Policy.com Website

• How many

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Use of Web site
Find out about countries that do not have
policies, and advocate for policy development
An advocacy tool

• A tool to guide users to develop new policies

Learn from policy making experience in other
countries
Research
A technical assistance tool at country level
Educate colleagues who are working on youth
issues
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Youth-Policy.ComBetter Policy, Healthier Youth