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• Topic - HIV/AIDS and THE YOUTH Stop
  AIDS- Keep the Promise
• Presenter- Youth Action for Development
  Association (YADA)
• Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• By Ephrem Tekle
• Nov.29-2005
• VIDEO CONFERENCE

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Contents

1. Activities of Young People in the fight against
   HIV/AIDS.
2. Role of government, donors and other institutions
3. YADAs achievement and next programs

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1. Activities of Young People in the fight
against HIV/AIDS.

• Current Status
• Around 3037 active Anti-AIDS club, Youth
  Organizations, Initiatives and associations in
  the country (FHI/Ethiopian Youth Network/2002).
• Working area (some)
• Awareness creation
• Advocacy
• Social care and support
• Voluntary Counseling and Testing

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• Activities (some)
• Information delivery
• Researches and studies
• Networking programs
• Community based discussion forums
• Peer educations
• Street shows
• Coffee ceremonies

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• Challenges
• Weak and low youth participation and
  representation
• Less conducive environment
• Weak system and implementation of plans
• Lack of capacity
• Lack of information
• Weak networking and integrative activities
• Lack of trust by the government and society on
  the youth.

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2.Role of government and donors

• Role of government
• Creating conducive system
• Implementing policies and strategies
• Opening the gate for the young people.
• Role of Donors
• Open house
• Information desks
• Informing their activities
• Having direct funds (grants, small funds)---
  WB,UNICEF
• Supporting youth initiatives ( technical,
  financial)

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3. Youth Action for Development Association(YADA)

• Introduction
• Establishment
• Previously named Youth Advisory Group (YAG).. WB
• Established in august 2003 with 22 young people
  from four regions and the capital.
• Supported by World Bank (during establishment)
• Mission
• To serve young people in providing reliable and
  timely information to enable them to be
  mobilized.
• Vision
• To see well informed and mobilized youth working
  for the development of their country.

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• Achievement
• 1. Assessment on youth participation and
  representation.
• coverage area Addis Ababa and other Four
  regions
• Findings - weak and low youth participation
  in their issues
• - lack of capacity and information
• - Intense bureaucratic barriers in
  governmental offices
• 2. Dialogue among NGOs, Youth organizations,
  donors and government officials.

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• 3. Youth Based Information Providing project
• - Aim - to solve the problems identified in
  the previous assessment.
• - Donor - World Bank and SIDA.
• - Components
• a. Publication of Guide book and Bulletin
• Guidebook-
• - List of Funders in Ethiopia
• - note on project designing
• - List of recreation centers
• - Experience sharing
• - List of VCT centers.
• Bulletin -
• - learning material.
• - national writing contest.

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• Distribution
• books distributed in the 11 regions of Ethiopia
• b. Establishment of HIV/AIDS corners in 25 high
  schools.
• - 20 in the capital and 5 in other regions.
• - distribution of learning materials on
  Adolescent reproductive health.
• c. Youth to Youth Dialogues
• - Focus information, participation,
  development ...
• - Regions - 5 regions
• - Aim - creating plat form for discussion
• - enable the youth to solve their problems
• - creating the interface among the youth.
• - discussion with government officials.

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• Next Programs Integrated Youth Mobilization and
  Empowerment Project (IYMEP)
• Aim - to mobilize and empower the youth to
  stand against its problems
• Means - information delivery using different
  ways of communication
• Components -
• Electronic media-
• TV program entertaining and educating programs
• Website
• - database of Youth organizations, funders and
  related organizations
• - Timely activities of these registered
  organizations.
• C. Radio program

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• 2. Print media (Guidebook, bulletin and leaflet )
• - writings of young artist
• - latest directories
• - short messages.
• 3. Folk media
• - Community conversation
• - Peer discussion
• - village based dialogues

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Remark

• To implement the plans, the association needs
• Financial Assistance
• Technical assistance
• Experience sharing

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YADAs Believe

• Information ? Initiation ? Mobilization ?
• EMPOWERMENT

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• THANK YOU.