Embracing intersectionality for health equity and justice

Name: Make Way
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All individuals, including people who are the most minoritised, should be able to realise their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). SRHR are human rights that allow people to make informed decisions about relationships, their bodies, family planning, sexuality and well-being. Rights that enable them to have access to a full range of sexual and reproductive health services.

The Make Way programme aims to break down barriers to SRHR by applying an intersectional lens. Making overlapping vulnerabilities visible helps us to understand their effects on a person’s SRHR. We develop and share intersectional tools, and also engage in mutual capacity strengthening with other civil society organisations, to advocate for much-needed policy and societal changes.

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Toolkit

The Make Way SRHR toolkit sets out to increase and improve the capacity, skills and knowledge of civil society groups and organisations. That will enable them to undertake game-changing intersectional SRHR lobby and advocacy. This toolkit consists of a wide range of tools – each with a different purpose – for the steps that make up an advocacy cycle.

Some tools build an understanding of the concept of intersectionality or help clarify values. Other tools are about applying the principles that underlie intersectionality in your approach to policy analysis, communication and community engagement.

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Latest updates

Two Years of Make Way’s Regional Council of Youth with Disabilities: the young people reclaiming their voice and influence in SRHR policy OR

In 2022, Make Way partner Liliane Fonds formed the first ever ‘Regional Council of Youth with Disabilities’ – to be implemented in collaboration with other partner organisations. The initiative which aligns with the Make Way programme’s intersectional approach to SRHR youth-led advocacy, is made up of fifteen (15) youth across Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda and Uganda.

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16 Days of Activism: Eradicating gender-based violence

We are currently in the midst of 16 Days of Activism – an international campaign raising awareness on gender-based violence (GBV). We spoke with three Make Way youth representatives: Bertha Chulu, Elizabeth Warindi and Vilda Atieno to hear the about the different GBV issues that youth face, the role of youth and Make Way in combatting GBV and their call-to-action to governments to finally eradicate GBV.

Advocacy for policies with a human face: A look back at our masterclass on intersectional policy analysis

On November 11 and 12, we hosted an interactive online masterclass, ‘Advocacy for policies with a human face: Explore how you can do policy analysis from an intersectional perspective.’ With participants from diverse sectors, we explored practical tools and strategies for integrating intersectionality into lobby and advocacy efforts to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

Reimagining Art, Redefining Activism

Mika Obanda, a renowned artist from Mukuru, Nairobi, recently partnered with the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians in a powerful act of artivism during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. His artwork was prominently displayed on the 27th and 28th of November at St. Paul's School of Theology...

Make Way for Youth Podcast

Make Way for Youth is a youth-led podcast that brings to the fore conversations on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in sub-Saharan Africa. With co-hosts Warindi, Vilda and Bertha, this podcast offers a space to break taboos, normalise conversations on SRHR and provide inspiring stories into the work of SRHR youth advocates, religious leaders and civil society actors!

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Agenda

20 Jan

Leading the way: Advancing the African Disability Protocol for Inclusive SRHR

Webinar to spotlight the African Disability Protocol and SRHR Advocacy

Join us for a webinar on January 20, 2025, designed to deepen your understanding of the African Disability Protocol (ADP) and its potential for advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for young people with disabilities.

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