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Rutgers is seeking an external evaluator for Hello I Am programme in Bangladesh.

This November, the Nairobi Summit took place in Kenya. Young advocate, Ligia DeStephen from Honduras attended, as part of our Right Here Right Now (RHRN) programme. Ligia looks back at an inspirational experience in Nairobi, and will continue to hold her government to account for the commitments it made during the Summit.

Every year 25 million women undergo an unsafe abortion and between 22,500 and 44,000 women worldwide die from the complications. She Makes Her Safe Choice works to reduce these devastating numbers by providing women with a safe choice.

Indonesia's parliament raised the minimum age at which a girl can marry from 16 to 19, in a ruling which is expected to curb child marriage in the country.

The Yes I Do Alliance (YIDA) has again completed a year with good results. The number of child marriages has decreased, alternative ceremonies have been held (instead of female circumcision), trainings have been given and lobbying is progressing. The annual report gives insight into what was achieved last year.

November 12 to 15, Rutgers will lead a number of key activities the 5th International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), which takes place in Kigali, Rwanda. This year’s conference is focused on the theme, Investing for a Lifetime of Returns, which draws upon sustainable strategies to reach the goal of enabling an additional 120 million women to access voluntary, quality contraception by 2020.

On July 17th, PSTC in cooperation with the othe Hello I Am partners succesfuly launched the programme during a festive event in Dhaka. The Hello, I Am programme is enabling young people in Bangladesh to break harmful social norms and have more say in decisions about their futures.

From 11 to 20 July, governments from around the world will gather at the United Nations in New York for the High-level Political Forum (HLPF). At this site, they will discuss yearly progress on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The HLPF 2016 is particularly special as it is the first one to take place since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Rineke van Dam, Advocacy Officer at Rutgers, will be participating as member of the official delegation of the government of the Netherlands.

In 'Young and in Control' 7 young people from different countries in Africa and Asia show the importance of the active participation of themselves and their peers in the ASK programme. This online report is intended to inspire and encourage young people to stay or become involved in programmes that affect themselves, and to motivate adults to work with young people. Get inspired!

In October an expert meeting took place in Pretoria (South Africa) on SRHR education and HIV prevention programmes for adolescents and young people. For three days 100 people, from 18 different countries, working with and for young people and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and HIV prevention had the opportunity to link policy and practice. Read a reflection of the results in the online magazine called ‘More Access and Better Quality’.

In a recent survey carried out by Keystone Accountability Rutgers partner organisations rate Rutgers 9th out of 70 international NGOs (INGOs) worldwide and 4th out of 10 of Dutch INGOs in terms of ‘overall satisfaction’.

Recently Malawian Chief Mrs. Kachindamoto featured prominently in the media as she annulled over 300 child marriages. The traditional leader applied a new law which forbids marriage before girls are 18 and sent the girls back to school.

The World Association of Sexual Health (WAS) has awarded Doortje Braeken – IPPF’s Senior Adviser on Adolescents, Gender and Rights, Programmes & Technical - their prestigious individual Gold Medal in recognition of her lifetime’s contribution to sexual health.

How to make your E/M health strategy sustainable? What are effective strategies in increasing the utilization of services among youth? What are the pros and cons of working with young co-researchers? These were some of the questions that were addressed during the ASK Operational Research Symposium that took place in Kisumu, Kenya in May 2015. The ASK programme – Access, Services, Knowledge – targets key elements in meeting young people’s needs.

For youth between the ages of 10 and 24 years living in Africa, Asia and South America, a better future lies ahead: a better future in relation to sexual and reproductive health and rights. This is the aim of the new strategic partnership between Minister Ploumen and Rutgers, Hivos, Choice, Dance4life and three regional networks in the South.

Fourteen-year-old Zeba wakes early in the morning with her younger siblings Saira and Hina. The girls get dressed, comb their hair and leave their home at 7.30 am; they are not headed to their school, but to help their mother who works as a maid at several houses in the capital. “In a conservative society like Pakistan a girl usually has to face discrimination right from the moment her family learns that a mother-to-be is pregnant with a baby girl,” said Rutgers's Qadeer Baig.

KAMPALA - The government has been called on to embark an inclusive health care system to help reduce the number of unsafe abortions among mostly young Ugandans. In fact, youths and the civil society are demanding for a law to legalize abortion for cases that are extreme and unavoidable. During a an Inter-Generational Dialogue (IGD) in Kampala recently, students and other youths that attended the meet argued that many pregnancies are as a result of inevitable circumstances like defilement and rape.

Kampala, Uganda - Today nearly half of the World’s population – around 3 billion people- are under the age of 25. As these young people become sexually active, sexual and reproductive health services are under increasing pressure.

About 150 young SRHR leaders from 19 cities across Pakistan participated in the two-day ‘Youth Ask Leadership Conclave 2014’, organized by Rutgers Pakistan. The event allows young people to become the face of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) initiatives at national and international events.

A delegation from Burundi are in Nairobi to learn from their Kenian colleagues about comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and how it can best be taught in secondary schools. In July a group of young people, UN officials and government and civil society representatives from Burundi are in Nairobi to visit the Centre for the Study of Adolescence (CSA). This Rutgers partner organisation is implementing the comprehensive sexuality education programme the World Starts with Me (WSWM) in schools in Kenya.