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Rights at the heart of RHIYA
Posted by: Thanh Tung on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 03:12 AM
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It was a summer afternoon. Ngan, a secondary school pupil, had just finished an extra-curricular class, and was rushing to the Tan Hoa Youth-Friendly Corner (YFC) in Hoa Binh town for yet another weekly 'class' with her peers. This class, however, is different from the others Ngan attends. The topics covered are not run-of-the mill school subjects delivered through passive lectures. Here, Ngan gets basic information on sexuality and reproductive health, and finds herself in the role of facilitator and active participant of group discussions.
"I am very much interested in these meetings because they give me knowledge which I was previously too embarrassed to ask about, and didnt know where to find," she says proundly.
Participating in interactive education on sex and gender are among the fundamental rights of youths like Ngan that RHIYA has been making all of its endeavors to realize. Today, Viet Nam acknowledges its young boys and girls as the future of the country as never before. Their basic rights, however, are not always fully recognized. Adults tend to address youth issues the way they assume is good for their children, but often without consideration for the real needs and wants of young adults. Adopting a rights-based approach, RHIYA partners are pioneers in basing their activities on young peoples rights rather than on adults responsibilities. Integrating youths into the project implementation process is central to this approach. Young people like Ngan are not merely beneficiaries, but protagonists in key project activities. At the local level, they design, decorate and operate YFCs. At the central level, they take part in the development of project strategies, products and materials. In general, young people are given the power to determine their own destinies. RHIYA is a project of young people for young people.
No one understands the needs and concerns of the young better than the young themselves. Their participation and ownership is crucial to ensuring the services provided by RHIYA are tailored to actual demand. According to a client exit survey conducted in August 2005, as many as 98.2% of respondents perceived YFC services as accessible and discrete. Most of them (85.4%) were willing to come back and would recommend the services to their friends. In a country where reproductive health care services traditionally cater for married people, the data implies initiatives addressing young peoples rights and needs, and, crucially, involving young people themselves, are slowly but steadily emerging.
Adolescence is a critical period for self and identity formation. It comes with many physical, mental and emotional changes. Protecting young people's rights and respecting their dignity are, therefore, key to building up a strong and confident generation of individuals who can make informed decisions for a better future
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EU Sri Lanka: Press Briefing Programme
Posted by: Eshani Ruwanpura on Tuesday, August 08, 2006 - 04:39 AM
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The EU Office in Sri Lanka has selected RHIYA Sri Lanka to be covered under their Press Briefing Programme. Eight members from the local press, of all three languages, will be spending two days at two RHIYA project sites in the hill country from the 27th to the 29th of July 2006.
The two project sites which will be visited include one in the estate sector and the other in the hill capitol of Sri Lanka. In the estate sector, the press members will visit a counselling centre, observe a street drama and visit the RHIYA exhibition. In the hill capitol, the press members will attend a youth camp which is organised in one of the local schools.
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Trauma Couseling
Posted by: Dr Jabeen Abbass on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 08:59 AM
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Trauma Couseling, YFC staff at Hattian Dupata Muzaffarabad AJK Pakistan helped one young girls 13 year old through trauma counseling. YFC female couselor has provided couseling support to that girl who was kept silent after major earthquake of October 8, 2005. The Girl was unable to speak, however her mother told that she crying at night and unable to speak. The couselor who get trained in trauma and grief couseling techniques provided by PAVHNA District office. They asked the young girl to make a scatch of any thing on peice of paper the girl did not respond but after some time when couselor countinued her probing and helping her for long time the young girl make a scatch of a cup, they provided a cup of tea and continue discussion and at last the girl started speaking slowely but after some day she became normal and their parents are happay now.
In another case one of Female YFC youth counselor Naji working at YFC situated at tent village mira tinavolia was on her way back to her tent home bringing water from spring nearby she saw a young married women were weaping she asked her and who told Naji that she has lost every thing because of earthquake and she is also pregnanet at advace stage but she has no food to eat. Naji tooke her to the tent village and provided a tent to her and some food through YFC staff and PAVHNA doctors provided medical support and she deliver a female baby with the help of refferal support of YFC staff.
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Development of Gender Manual
Posted by: CWFD on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 08:45 AM
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Development of Gender Manual
In the Reproductive Health Initiative (RHI) phase one Gender Manual was developed for the NGO workers. But that was not adolescents friendly. It was for all age. This time CWFD took the initiative to develop the adolescent focused and friendly gender manual for RHIYA partners. With the technical support from UNFPA we formed a working committee on that, including UNFPA specialists and experts from Government of Bangladesh. The committee selected one National consultant through the required official procedure and the MOU was developed for the assignment by the last week of October, 05 and will submit it to CWFD. The consultant is following some process like the FGDs, field testing, discussion meeting etc, to make it a quality product and CWFD is cooperating with the consultant very closely. After the completion of the manual the Consultant will arrange a TOT on the manual for the RHIYA partners of Bangladesh.
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Youth Views from Pakistan expressed during National Advisory Group meeting
Posted by: Thierry Lucas on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 03:29 AM
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During last NAG meeting held in Islamabad on 16th of July key staff members from UN agencies, Government department, EC delegation and NGOs met to openly discuss RHIYA implementation in Pakistan. A key moment of the meeting was the views and comments given by young people coming from remote places of Pakistan where RHIYA works.
Ms. Nighat Rahim - Member PAVHNA District Advisory Board, Qilla Saif-Ullah, Baluchistan
District Qilla Saif-Ullah is on the whole a backward area. Education is scare. Unemployment is at peak at the moment. Even basic health activities have very little attention. Only two hospitals in the district are working, which are also lacking basic facilities. In far-flung areas Govt. has established Health Centers, but there is no one trained Lady Health Visitor (LHV) and Lady Health Worker (LHW). Untrained staff leads to a high rate of deaths during deliveries. Causes of high rate of deaths during delivery are shortage of food, rear facilities of health and other local factors.
Naturally, mother is responsible to produce the child and to develop, but lack of proper education, customs and due to superiority of man in the society, mother is scared to make decision, even to recommend decision, about her children. Some social customs are still big hurdle in the health activities of females. So despite provision of some facilities, most of them remain without health facilities.
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