Nigeria: Implementing the Advocating for Change for Adolescents Toolkit

As an advocacy fellow at EVA, I have been able to use the toolkit to push for the implementation of laws and policies that uphold the rights to health of adolescents and young people. For instance, in Niger State, Nigeria, I participated in an advocacy visit to the State Primary Healthcare Development Board to discuss the specific inclusion of adolescents and young people as beneficiaries of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund. My knowledge of the toolkit helped me to actively participate in the conversation and present our concrete asks. This advocacy visit gave us the platform to make recommendations on adolescents ’ and young people’s SRHR as well as led to the incorporation of youth-targeted activities for unmarried adolescents and young people in the Niger State workplan for 2019. EVA constantly works to ensure that young people gain the skills they need for advocacy and that policy-makers support policies and programmes that promote adolescents ’ health and well-being. Our strategies are simple; to influence policies, we map out relevant stakeholders and engage them in face-to-face discussions and online campaigns on the need to support policy change that promotes adolescents’ health and well-being. We share evidence through our person al experiences and that of other young people we work with at community level.
Source: WHO Maternal, Newborn and Child Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: child health [subject], children's health, children, young child, child Source Type: news