know your policy

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How Young People can

engage in development issues in

their communities...

By knowingkey governmentpolicies, you

can realize yourrights and

make demands.


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Whats inside...

1. What is a Policy?

2. Teenage Pregnancy

3. Adolescents health plan

4. Youth Friendly corner

5. Re-Entry Policy

6. Engaging our local Leaders

7. Youth Civic Participation


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A government policy is a written document or plan of action by a government touide and regulate the delivery of services such as health and education.

Good to know weshall go and right

to be taught on howto avoid

teenage pregnancy

Good to know we

have the right to

be taught on how

to avoid teenage

pregnancy


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policy

Teenage pregnancyDid you know that over 15,000 teenage pregnancies occur in schools annually? But by beingmade aware of key government policy, young girls can realize and demand their right tocomplete school after delivering.


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relieved

policy

Sibeso

ADOLESCENT HEALTH STRAGIC PLAN, TEENAGE PREGNANCY

AND THE RE-ENTRY POLICY

enable

ADOLESCENT HEALTH PLAN, TEENAGE PREGNANCY

AND THE RE-ENTRY POLICY


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advice


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NCY

TSE

ICEF

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addressed

ASSESS DELIVERY OF SERVICES IN YOUR COMMUNITY

Have an assessment toknow what

you lack in your community..

y ur ei n lF d n rse?

c.es. . iy .t k!

After assessing thedelivery of services in

the community, youths havethe right to makedemands for improvements or

make suggestion to theirelected leaders through the

constituency officein their community.

Youth

Here is acommunity

assessment toolyou can use.

Great!we can use it

to assesscommunity services.

Lets go andassess the

health clinic.

I am going tocheck how

youth friendlytheir services

are..


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Early marriages,sexual cleansing

arranged marriagesare bad practices

we as youngpeoplesay..

being


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ASSESS YOUR SELF.

1. What is a policy?2. What do the letters ADHS stand for?3. Are young people allowed to go for

counseling at clinics?4. What policy allows young women

to go back to school after delivering?5. State if the following statements aretrue or false.

(a) You can seek an audience with your local Member of parliament through

the constituency office.(b) Access to youth friendly services reduces teenage pregnancy and therisk of getting STIs and HIV.

(c) A community self assessment tool can

be used to check the quality of health services in you clinics.

Answers - next page.

ASSESS YOUR SELF.

ASSESS YOURSELF

ASSESS YOURSELF


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O HY U AVE I !HTSGR

Know Your Policy..

After reading this, I hope ourdear youths can now realize

that they have rights and havethe power to make theirleaders deliver in their

communities..youths must also take an

interest and play their rolein decision making processes

and be active in governanceissues.

Answers1.Apolicyisawrittendocumentorplan

ofactionfollowedbyagovernmenttoguideandregulatethedeliveryofservices.2.AdolescenthealthstrategicPlan3.Yes4.There-entrypolicy

(a)True(b)True(c)True

5.


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Restless Development Zambia, 15 Gwembe Road High Ridge Kabwe.and Suit # 107, Foxdale Court Zambezi Rd, Roma, Lusaka

National Aids Council,315 Independence Avenue Lusaka. Help line Call: 991

Youth Vision (For more information on Relationships, HIV and STI call Help line on 431

Forum for Youth Organisations in Zambia (FYOZ) P.O.Box 169 Lusaka

Zambian Governance Foundation, 45 Joseph Mwila Road Rhodespark Lusaka

National Assembly of Zambia, Parliament Road P.O.Box 31299

Adolescent Health Strategy Plan 2011-2015 ( Visit the restless development website)

www.restlessdevelopment.org/zambiawww.parliament.gov.zm/www.youthforumzambia.wordpress.com/www.zgf.org.zm/index.htmlwww.nac.org.zm/

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