| ICFP 2025 Side Event Title | Voices from the Margins: Centering Intersectionality in Youth-Led Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) initiatives across the Global South |
| Date | 4 November, 2025 |
| Time | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Colombia Time |
| Format | In-person and Virtual |
| Registration Link | https://forms.gle/Mg4tV7Yo6WBDP8AC8 |
| Duration | 2 hours |
| Focus Area | Youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), Global South, Intersectionality |
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About the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) 2025
The International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) has become a global community, a dynamic movement, and a trusted digital platform advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all.
ICFP brings together researchers, governments, advocates, health equity champions, and local communities to celebrate progress, pledge new commitments, and chart the way forward. Rooted in collaboration, inclusivity, innovation, and scientific integrity, it serves as a strategic inflection point for advancing universal access to family planning and reproductive health.
About the ICFP 2025 Side Event: Voices from the Margins
This side event will highlight the leadership, lived realities, and advocacy journeys of young people from the Global South, specifically from Nepal, Myanmar, and Benin, who are working to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in highly marginalized and often underrepresented contexts.
Key Discussion Focus at the ICFP 2025 Side Event
The event will focus on intersectionality as both an analytical tool and a framework for action in SRHR policy, services, and youth-led movements.Young scholars, emerging leaders supported through ARROW’s capacity-strengthening initiative under FJSI, will co-lead the space, showcasing data-informed, community-rooted advocacy campaigns and sharing lessons across regions.
Objectives
- Amplify the voices of young SRHR advocates from Asia and Francophone West Africa.
- Highlight intersectional approaches to addressing barriers to contraception and SRHR access.
- Promote cross-regional learning and solidarity among youth-led movements in the Global South.
- Create visibility for data-driven, youth-led SRHR advocacy initiatives.
- Strengthen partnerships with key stakeholders for long-term youth engagement and resourcing.
Our Approach at the ICFP 2025 Side Event
The side event will have a moderated discussion divided into two parts. In the first half, 6 young people (from Myanmar, Nepal, and Benin) will share about youth-led SRHR initiatives at local level and highlight the successes and challenges.
The second half consists of a Multistakeholder Panel on young people’s SRHR where speakers representing Asia, West Africa, UN agency, Donor agency and Embassies. The speakers will highlight the situation of SRHR services and movement in the region that will be followed by an interactive Q&A round between participants and panelists.
This will be a hybrid event where registration for participation will be opened ahead of time and shared with young people, partners, and ICFP participants.Interpretation will be available in French and English.
Expected Outcomes
- Documented cross-regional youth-led strategies for SRHR advocacy through an intersectional lens.
- Strengthened visibility for youth leaders from underrepresented contexts.
- Possible commitments from stakeholders to support youth-led intersectional SRHR initiatives post-ICFP.
