Advocacy for Change for Adolescents! – Nigeria
Education as a Vaccine is one of the six organizations identified by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child health to implement an advocacy initiative that aims to advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescents and young people. The Partnership is an alliance of more than 800 organizations in 77 countries from the sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health communities, as well as health influencing sectors. In order to advance the health and rights of adolescents and young people, the Partnership in collaboration with Women Deliver has developed a toolkit called the Advocacy for Change for Adolescents toolkit.
EVA is localizing that toolkit by making it country specific and ensuring that young people can use the tool to effectively implement advocacy strategies within and outside the project area.
EVA seeks to improve the policy environment that upholds the rights of adolescent and young people to sexual and reproductive health information and services under three broad objectives;