YouAct Annual Report 2019

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ADVOCACYHIGHLIGHTSReflecting YouAct’s values, during 2019 our memberstook part in exciting opportunities, advocacy eventsand youth engagement campaigns.RFSU Body Rights 2030RFSU (the Swedish Association for SexualityEducation) launched an ambassador programmefunded by SIDA, the Swedish InternationalDevelopment Cooperation Agency, aiming to educatethe Swedish public on the importance of SRHR issuesfor global development and Agenda 2030.Adriana Pereira and Frida Gunnarsson attended atraining in Stockholm to become ambassadors for theproject and subsequently to hold trainings for youthpolitical parties in Sweden on how abortion rights,comprehensive sexuality education and sexualityrights are crucial for global development.8
Power, Progress and Change – We Found Plenty atWomen Deliver 2019The Women Deliver 2019 Conference took place on 3-6 June 2019 inVancouver, Canada, and was the world’s largest conference on genderequality and the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women in the 21stcentury. More than 8,000 world leaders, influencers, advocates, academics,activists, and journalists gathered in Vancouver with the drive to accelerateprogress for girls and women everywhere.The conference presented new knowledge, promoted world-class solutions,and engaged a broad spectrum of voices. It focused on several issues fromhealth, nutrition, education, economic and political empowerment to humanrights, good governance, and girls’ and women’s agency and equality.Our network was represented by two members, Anamaria Suciu, WomenDeliver Young Leader and Anuki Mosiashvili, member of the Women DeliverYouth Engagement Working Group. Anamaria presented the latest YouActproject funded by Generation Now, who brought young advocates face-tofacewith Members of the European Parliament. Anuki told her story abouthow she started community-based activism in her municipality to changenarratives around sexuality education in Georgia and how she ended up doingyouth-led advocacy at the European Parliament in Brussels.On June 6th, YouAct and DSW co-facilitated a special event called “The Powerof Community: Advocates from Europe”, aiming to bring European advocatestogether to network, identify common and specific goals and priorities andways of collaborating as members of this community of practice.You can have a glimpse into the conference by watching this 4-minute video .9
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