Ana Aguilera

At Women Deliver 2023, the largest multi-sectoral convening to advance gender equality, the YIELD Hub will host a side event alongside its partners (as proposed below) to dissect how we have employed collective action learning to address key issues related to youth partnership in the adolescent and youth SRHR field. During the event, we will endeavour to demonstrate the value of collective action learning; leveraging our ongoing action learning group topics as real-life case studies. We will also share key learnings from our previous action learning cycle on gender and inclusion, and measurement of youth partnership; and consequently, share new resources that stakeholders in the filed can benefit from. In turn, we are confident that we will inspire thought and action, geared towards addressing SRHR challenges, no doubt bringing us one step closer to achieving gender equality. The event will also serve as an opportunity to raise visibility of, and spotlight engagement in the upcoming Global Forum for Adolescents (October 2023) and the 1.8 Billion Young People for Change Campaign. Organized by YIELD Hub.

bell hooks reminds us: “Much […] emerges from [those] who live at the center, whose perspectives on reality rarely include … the lives of [people] who live on the margin.”

This session seeks to highlight and re-center perspectives on reproductive justice from activists and leaders of historically marginalized communities, namely LGBTQIA+, people living with disabilities, youth, and those from Global Majority countries affected by neocolonial global funding mechanisms and conflict.

Through a panel discussion with community leaders and experts from inroads and EngenderHealth, we aim to continue weaving a collective narrative of intersectionality in the pursuit of reproductive justice for all.

Session format: Whole System in a Room

Organized by inroads (The International Network for the Reduction of Abortion Discrimination and Stigma) & EngenderHealth