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Ongoing · 2025 - 2026

Watching the National Youth-Friendly Health Strategy

National policy & domestic health funding · Nationwide — Lilongwe policy rooms

✿ CEGIWE (lead)funded by Network for Sex Workers Dignity, Regional ChapterUSD 188,000
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from the field, with love.

The story so far

A national strategy is only as good as its funding. CEGIWE leads a coalition of youth-led organisations keeping watch over Malawi's National Youth-Friendly Health Services Strategy — reviewing policies, analysing the Ministry of Health's reproductive health budget, and writing clear advocacy briefs young people carry into sector reviews and parliamentary committee rooms. Along the way we coach young advocates to speak with confidence: policy literacy, public speaking, and the courage to ask for more domestic resources for youth health.

What changed ♡

  • ✿ Independent youth reviews of the national strategy rollout
  • ✿ Advocacy briefs in youth hands at national review conferences
  • ✿ Young advocates engaging parliamentary health committees