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Building Youth Leadership: MENA Regional Training for Sexual and Reproductive Rights Advocates

Deadline– 30 April 2013

Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (YCSRR) is inviting applications for MENA Regional Training for Sexual and Reproductive Rights Advocates Youth Leadership program. The mission of this program is to offer significant opportunities for progressive youth advocates to influence the next development agenda, and, ultimately, ensure that youth SRHR is at the heart of the agenda.

YCSRR will conduct the third training of this series in the Middle East and Northern Africa region to build knowledge of youth activists on the ICPD and MDG review processes on regional and international levels, and assess how their commitments have been implemented at the country level. Training will be conducted in Egypt on May 21-24, 2013.

Training Goals–

  • Build the capacities of young leaders to incorporate youth SRHR issues in the ICPD 2014 Review process, MDG 2015 Review and national poverty reduction strategy (PRS) processes.
  • Mobilize young people to advocate for youth SRHR in their respective national, regional and international ICPD and MDG review processes.

Eligibility & Criteria-

  • Based in MENA either working on regional or national level in the region.
  • Working with, or strongly connected to, young people between the ages 18 and 27.
  • Have strong connections with national youth organisations and networks.
  • Have a working knowledge of English (training will be conducted in English).
  • With demonstrable experience working in the area of sexual and reproductive health and rights or related field.
  • Planning to work on the ICPD, MDGs and PRS related advocacy initiatives & programmes in the lead up to 2014 and 2015.
  • Have the institutional capacity to support its representatives to the training in the follow up at the national level.
  • Willing and able to commit staff time and other resources to coordinate the preparation and follow-up to the training in the form of getting involved in and developing national-level advocacy initiatives in the lead up to the ICPD review in 2014.

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