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Hi Kristen and everyone else new to D4Y,

Welcome to the Deliver for Youth (D4Y) list-serve! 

It is good to know White Ribbon Alliance shares the goals of D4Y, and we are all eager to find ways to work together.  Kristin's message reminded us that we have a lot of new members of the list, 75 to date, and wanted to take this opportunity to explain what it is and what is happening over at FCI.

This list grew out of the Youth Advocacy Working Group at the Women Deliver conference in London last October: www.womendeliver.org.  As part of the D4Y project, this list serve is the place to learn and share information about youth advocacy and maternal health, especially as they link in with broader issues and movements in health, rights, development, and social justice, especially for women and girls.

FCI currently coordinates the list, and sends a monthly bulletin with member news and resources.  Importantly, we have decided to phase out this yahoo groups list-serve and rely solely on the e-mail list-serve of which you are all already subscribed. You will be receiving the next monthly bulletin at the end of this week.  If you have any news, updates, stories to add to the next bulletin, please send them to Naomi, nsorkin@..., by this Thursday, March 6, 2008.

The list itself is unmoderated, and we only ask that people be respectful and tolerant.

 Over at Family Care International, the organizing partner for the Women Deliver conference and the on-going initiative, we have been developing a global and country-level advocacy project that includes a mapping component.  Like Kristen, we  would like to know - where are the young people within the maternal health movement?  And how to we help facilitate meaningful youth participation?

We are endeavoring to work with young people to create tools to advocate effectively about maternal health issues and simultaneously working with the maternal health community to infuse their work with the voices and experiences of young people and focus on investing in young people as a crucial component of maternal health.  To this end, we have been consulting with advocates within and outside this group and have submitted abstracts to the AWID conference and the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City for workshops to further explore this.  We plan to build on the materials created at WD and generate powerful messages that better link young people to the maternal health community.

All of this work has been and will continue to be guided by the Deliver for Youth Advisory Group, comprised of members from the youth advocacy working group at Women Deliver representing organizations including Youth Coalition, Advocates for Youth, and UNFPA.  We have not yet formalized the terms of this group and welcome new members.  Please write Naomi directly if you are interested.  We would like to convene a meeting of this group this summer so please consider this as a possibility.

To review prior messages on this list-serve, please write Naomi directly nsorkin@....  They include many calls for assistance similar to Kristin's message; we appreciate the opportunity to reiterate them now.

All of the best,

Naomi and Vanessa

Hi all,

	 It was a pleasure to meet you all in London, to hear your
stories and to learn about the exciting work that you are doing. I am
glad that we have created this forum and the youth newsletter so that
we can continue to follow these efforts.
	 I am currently working with the White Ribbon Alliance for
Safe Motherhood at their global secretariat in Washington, D.C. For
the next few months, I will be working to develop a three year plan
for youth engagement. My job is to try to understand the role of
youth in the maternal health campaign and to design a structure that
will best support youth involvement. As you can imagine, this is a
bit of an overwhelming task, there are so many strategies for
involvement and so many projects already underway.
	 I am writing to all of you today because I think you could be
of tremendous assistance. I spoke with a number of you at the Women
Deliver conference and asked you the very question, "what do you
believe is the role of youth in this campaign? How should youth be
involved?" and your answers have given me a better understanding of
the overall youth perspective. Your stories, work and insight proved
how valuable youth are in this campaign. I am currently in the
process of working through the foundational concepts of this campaign
and researching current strategies and best practices. I would love
to hear more feedback and gather more information from anyone who
would be willing.
	 The strategy that I am working on will incorporate inter-
generational and inter-cultural partnerships. We want to harness the
strength of youth to youth campaigns, but we want to involve youth
from around the world, not just those in countries with the highest
rates of maternal mortality. We want this model to serve as a example
of the global commitment that will be necessary to make motherhood
safe for every woman. But we want this to be more than a youth to
youth campaign. One thing that I think a number of youth echoed at
the Women Deliver conference was the idea that "you can train the
voice to speak, but you must also train the ears to listen". I think
that it is important to incorporate intergenerational partnerships,
while preserving the strengths of youth to youth campaigns, because
in the end, youth need the support of their community.
	 I know this posting is a bit vague, but I thought I would at
least open up the idea for discussion and see what sort of interest
there may be and what ideas some of you may have. I would love to
hear people's thoughts and comments on this. Also, if anyone has any
additional information that you think may be useful to me, such as,
information on best practices or current strategies, I would really
appreciate it. I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks!

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Only Words?

By Rupert Walder

Created Nov 16 2007 - 8:15am

Language has always been an essential agenda in sexual and reproductive health 1 and rights, not least of all because the Cairo and Beijing agendas were so language driven. At these two conferences, the all-important switch was made from "family planning 2" to "sexual and reproductive health and rights." Politically, this development was vital. Semantically, it provided new scope, and not necessarily for the better. (Others on this site - including Malika Sadaa Saar 3 and Gloria Feldt 4 - have written about the resonance of the right and wrong language in current discourse around sexual and reproductive health and rights.)

Writing about the recent Women Deliver and the Global Safe Abortion conferences in London, Beth Frederick 5 concluded that we need to be on the lookout for policy makers who "forget or ignore" the relevant agendas. In terms of language, I think there is an important third here: don't understand.

It did strike me at Women Deliver that some participants - including detractors - were using a language that just doesn't mean very much to anyone other than the converted and the unconvertible. In our efforts to articulate the quiddity - the essence, the correctness, the validity - of our arguments, we are confusing policy makers and the media and other prospective supporters. If Cairo was about winning language, then the following few decades seem to have been about complicating that language. And to such an extent that any decent journalist or civil servant or policy broker has switched off before we have got to the end of our second sentence.

We all know the reasons why we use such `complex' language: to push the agenda onwards and upwards; because we really, really (really?) need to explain the technicalities of our work; to claim the moral high ground; to impress; to discredit our detractors; to differentiate ourselves from our competitors. And the agenda and therefore language is always evolving, with new contraceptive regimes and technology, new political conquests, all of which need to be "explained."

But somewhere along the way, those of us who are promoting discussion about sexual and reproductive health and rights (snappy, huh?) seem to have become so involved, so committed, to our particular agendas, that we have stopped speaking English - or Spanish or French or Russian. With some notable exceptions, most of the briefings and reports at Women Deliver read like short, incomprehensible novellas.

There is also the polarization of our language on issues such as abortion and sex education. How on earth can we say what we really need to say on these issues without first ensuring that we have made it so very clear that we don't think this, and don't advocate that? It is too defensive, too contextualized for the outside world.

And the all important voice of "youth" has also been so sanitized that youth advocates sound like nascent civil servants rather than real young people. Do any normal young people ever really used the term "peer education," or "youth advocate" or even "reproductive health?" I doubt it.

There is also the polarization of our language on issues such as abortion and sex education. How on earth can we say what we really need to say on these issues without first ensuring that we have made it so very clear that we don't think this, and don't advocate that? It is too defensive, too contextualized for the outside world.

Women Deliver demanded that we reach out to new audiences. Let's not do it with language based on programs of action, vital as these documents remain. Let's do it with real words (and also images) that have life and resonance beyond our own particular offices and corridors and conferences.