IYAFP STRATEGIC PLAN
2021 – 2025
Our Reality
In 2020 the world witnessed the rise of a global pandemic that imposed significant challenges around the world and the re-emergence of the black liberation movement.
These events have influenced all fields by transforming the ways of working of institutions, redefining priorities, and starting long-overdue conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion, and the decolonial horizon of the peoples of the Global South.
The development sector has been no exception, even though very little practical progress has been achieved so far.
It is clear that the Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice (SRHRJ) community should not trail behind in pursuing the decolonial horizon within the SRHRJ space. For centuries, an imposed hierarchy of knowledge and power led to the dominance of Western or Westernized views and the hegemony of Eurocentrism. Decolonization is the call to human rights organizations, policymakers, implementers, donors and academics to open the space and share power, so that experience and knowledge of people from the Global South are shared, implemented, and considered to have an equal value to knowledge coming from the Western world.
How will we transform oppressive systems and advance SRHRJ?
Building a strong values-driven community
Elevating the voice and expertise of young people in SRHRJ
Global movement building in SRHRJ
Fully youth-led agenda setting
Local-Global Synergy in our advocacy
OUR STRATEGIC GOALS
STRATEGIC GOAL 1: ADVOCACY
Young human rights defenders influence policies to advance, protect and defend Sexual Reproductive Health Rights and Justice at all levels.
STRATEGIC GOAL 2: COMMUNITY
A values-driven community of connected young human rights defenders that are at the forefront of SRHRJ decision-making in policy settings.
STRATEGIC GOAL 3: MOVEMENT BUILDING
A united set of young human rights defenders commits to fighting systems of oppression and spur a global movement.
