{"id":64501,"date":"2026-03-13T12:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/?page_id=64501"},"modified":"2026-03-13T12:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:19:31","slug":"adolescents-youth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/adolescents-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Adolescents et jeunes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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To reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030\u2014and to ignite a world in which every young person can access modern contraception when and how they say they want\u2014we need to get youth-powered.

Learn how PSI is applying that approach through our flagship adolescent reproductive health and rights project, Adolescents 360 (A360).<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Overview<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>

Globally, two in five people are under the age of 25, and nearly half of this segment lives in sub-Saharan Africa. Young people have the potential to catalyze development outcomes in their countries and around the world, including economic and social progress, but only when governments and organizations prioritize inclusion and holistic youth development. When we build positive assets, protective factors and resiliency in young people, and reduce their access barriers to information and services, they will have the power to help us unlock the challenges ahead.<\/p>

However, many young people still experience interlocked forms of discrimination, limited political inclusion, high levels of poverty and limited access to health systems, educational opportunities and decent jobs. In sexual and reproductive health, a persistent unmet need for reproductive health services exists among young people directly contributing to cycles of poverty based on economic and social exclusion.<\/p>

We believe that one reason young people have unequal representation, care and support is due to a lack of inclusion and shared power, particularly in the design, implementation and evaluation of services created for their health and well-being. We need their voice to be a part of the solutions that serve them through meaningful youth engagement, participation and leadership.\u00a0 Young people have the right to be included, and we have the responsibility to build their capacity for greater impact. To do so, we are honoring young girls and boys as the experts of their own lived experiences and elevating them as co-decision makers for the health solutions that serve them. We are prioritizing their voice, choice and agency in our work because if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)\u2014and nations are to achieve a demographic dividend that will propel their economies\u2014the health and well-being of young people will be critical to their meaningful contribution and leadership to solve these challenges.\u00a0By prioritizing our youngest consumers we can not only build lifetime contraceptive users but create healthy, educated and economically productive adults that can lift their families, communities and countries out of poverty.<\/p>

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Our <\/span> Commitments to Adolescents & Youth<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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By 2030, PSI pledges to identify, train and deploy a corps of 500 young people from around the world with the skills to co-design and implement adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights programs alongside technical experts. These youth fellows will be employed as practitioners in programs within and beyond PSI, working as researchers, analysts, advocates and community-level champions who can counsel teams on how to apply meaningful youth engagement and design youth-powered programs.\u00a0And, through inter-generational and peer-to-peer mentorship, they will be supported to develop the confidence and skills needed to successfully influence and deliver public health programming.<\/p>

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Human Centered Design (HCD) is one approach to design-thinking, and is often paired with other health systems approaches to develop deep and nuanced understanding about what matters to people, on a deep, emotional level. There\u2019s power in working with young people for the solutions that serve them. But that partnership must include protocols to ensure we protect young people\u2019s integrity, dignity and wellbeing throughout our work.<\/p>

That\u2019s why PSI alongside A360 and the HCD Exchange\u2014a representative group of implementers, designers and funders\u2014developed the Commitment to Ethics in Youth-Powered Program Design to honor and uphold ethical principles when conducting HCD with adolescents and young people. Three pillars ground the Commitment\u2019s principles: respect; justice; and do no harm to the young people we work with and for.<\/p>

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Working in partnership with young people unleashes breakthroughs\u2014but without proper guardrails in place, we can endanger young people\u2019s safety and well-being. Alongside the members of the HCD Exchange, we launched the\u00a0Commitment\u00a0to Ethics in Youth-Powered Design<\/a>\u00a0at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in November 2018 to formalize principles for how we, as a community, can ensure that we respect, balance power with and do no harm to the young people we work with and for. The Commitment, in addition to the World Health Organization-led\u00a0Global Consensus Statement on Meaningful Adolescent and Youth Engagement<\/a>\u00a0also signed during ICFP, reflects how we\u2019re addressing the\u00a0unique vulnerabilities<\/a>\u00a0that arise when working alongside young people, both during implementation and well after we leave.<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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We successfully met and surpassed our FP2020 pledge two years early. In the process, we exposed gaps in how we were assessing who was coming through the service delivery door. We did not have a long history of age disaggregated service delivery. We needed to know exactly who we were serving if our goal was to impact unmet need and reduce unintended adolescent pregnancies.<\/div>
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