YLA Webinar: Combatting Child Marriage through Youth Advocacy on Family Planning and RHR

Join YouthLead Ambassadors Nyasha and Chiranthi to discuss combatting child marriage through youth advocacy on family planning and Reproductive Health Rights.

About this event
The continuing practice of child marriage violates the reproductive health rights (RHR) of child brides and grooms—forcing them into roles that have lifelong consequences. Driven by societal norms, religious beliefs, and cultural endorsement of the practice, child marriage persists in local communities in both sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Family planning and reproductive health youth-advocacy programming are effective in helping to change the societal norms surrounding the practice of child marriage, for example, engaging communities in holistic conversation. To learn more about these methods and address the importance of civil society at the community level, we invite you to join YouthLead ambassadors Nyasha Freeman Musikambesa from Zimbabwe and Chiranthi Senanayake from Sri Lanka on Thursday, June 17, 2021, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Nyasha and Chiranthi will discuss how effective youth advocacy can be in promoting family-planning and RHR education.

Attendees of this webinar will learn from Nyasha and Chiranthi’s experience in effective RHR youth advocacy in the context of on-the-ground realities in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and be guided through problem analysis and a discussion of the effects of child marriage practice on individuals and communities.