Youth Sustained Advocacy Project: YSAP .
About Youth Sustained Advocacy Project YSAP
Y-SAP provides youth with the knowledge, skills, and tools to meaningfully engage in influencing policies that drive health system improvements. It ensures that youth are central to planning processes that affect their reproductive rights.
- Improve delivery of high-quality SRH services
- Sustain youth voices in policy and programming
- Build evidence-based advocacy through youth data
What We Are Doing
- Framework Training: Training 10 Community Champions per district in the application of the Accountability Framework.
- Evidence Collection: Implementing Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) to influence health planning.
- Policy Dialogue: Holding national round table meetings with traditional leaders, parliamentarians, and the MoH
- Stakeholder Validation: Facilitating quarterly meetings to validate CLM findings with district stakeholders.
Where We Are Doing It
- Project activities are executed at the local district level for service monitoring, with strategic advocacy spanning National and Regional policy spaces.
Our Objectives and Targets
To provide Adolescents and Young People with the necessary skills and tools to influence policies for sustainable and equitable health system improvements.
- Make health systems more efficient and effective for youth-targeted delivery.
- Sustain youth influence on national health planning, strategies, and policies.
- Improve evidence-based policy debates on SRHR service delivery.
- Establish effective client feedback mechanisms helpful in addressing service barriers.
- Build youth leadership to claim sexual and reproductive health rights.
"Before YLAP, we had nowhere to turn for real information about our health. Now, we know our rights and where to access youth-friendly services without fear or judgment. The weekend clinics changed everything for us!"
Naledi
19 – Chipata"I never thought I could be part of making health services better. Through the training, I became a Community Health Champion, and now I help other young people understand SRHR and get the help they need."
Brian
22 – Kazungula"The interface meetings helped us improve how we engage with young people. We now offer more friendly and accessible services, and we see more adolescents coming in for SRH support."