Teenagers and Tehsil Nazims, Mothers and Mullahs: New Alliances for Young People’s Reproductive Health presents the ground-breaking work of the Society for the Advancement of Community, Health, and Training (SACHET) in the Chakwal District of Pakistan.

The practice was selected because:

• Their careful efforts to consult and engage the community and address their concerns effectively paved the way in a conservative environment for the establishment of 20 youth information centres, ten each for boys and girls that included sexual and reproductive health education in their mix of activities. They were also successful in enabling girls to use the centres.
• They adapted their strategies to the situation in innovative ways, for example, they undertook research on Islam and reproductive health to address the concerns of local Mullahs which proved so useful it was adopted by others.
• Their strategies and the tools they developed can be replicated.

• Case Studies From RHIYA: Good Practices for Creating an Enabling Environment, pp.18-31
• SACHET project
• Entertainment as a means to ASRH awareness raising

What about Next Year? Forging Sustainable Public/ Private Partnerships in Pakistan describes the work of Marie Stopes Society in Jacobabad, Pakistan to ensure the sustainability of its sexual and reproductive health interventions for young people in the district by securing an allocation for such work in the local government budget.

The practice was selected because:

• It was effective in developing support among all stakeholders. It got local level policymakers to better understand and address young people’s reproductive health needs and to table them at a District assembly session, unprecedented in an environment where young people’s sexual and reproductive health is potentially controversial, especially for those who are unmarried.
• The project successfully procured government support for its Youth-Friendly Centres and signed a Memorandum of Understanding to formalize it, significant steps towards the institutionalization of its work.
• The project innovatively used a new local government mechanism to garner this continuing support for its work. By envisioning the transformation of the Youth Friendly Centres into a new type of local group, called Citizen Community Boards, the implementers found a way to make them eligible for local government resources allocated for young people’s reproductive health and other funding.
• The process is replicable and is already being replicated in other districts of Pakistan.
• The main result of the advocacy work is that the Youth Friendly Centres can become sustainable.

• Case Studies from RHIYA: Good Practices in Advocating for Policy Development pp.3-17
• Marie Stopes Society Project
• Turning Potential Foes into Friends