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FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Partners in Development Join Hands to
Enhance Youth Awareness through Creativity
TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN – In April 2010 UNFPA,
United Nations Population Fund in Uzbekistan
initiated and supported a number of
youth–related activities in cooperation with
such partners as “Kelajak Ovozi” Youth
Initiatives Centre, United Nations
Development Programme in Uzbekistan (UNDP)
and Uzbek Association for Reproductive
Health.
One of the activities in the chain of
educational events is a 5-day peer education
training for trainers on theater-based
education, which aims to equip active
volunteers of UNDP Information and
Communication Technology Centres in Khorezm,
Andijan, Surkhandarya, Fergana, Jizzakh, and
Navoi provinces
and the volunteers of “ Kelajak Ovozi”
with skills and knowledge on training their
peers in theater-based education with
specific focus on equal rights of women and
men and reproductive health.
“This activity is one of the ways we plan to
address gender and reproductive health
issues among young people who comprise
approximately
65% of the country’s population” –
said Mr. Ulugbek Zaribbaev, UNFPA Programme
Associate on Reproductive Health. “The
overall objective of the workshop is to
build the capacity of selected young people
to plan, design and deliver high quality
theater based peer education training
programmes. Consequently, the trainers will
return to their provinces and stage theater
performances for local youth sensitizing
them on gender and RH issues.”
It is expected that later on the same
national and international partners will
further join efforts in organizing a Theater
Festival where selected best plays will be
performed in the Uzbek Capital.
UNFPA supports peer-to-peer education
through Y-PEER youth network in Uzbekistan.
The network was established in 2005 and by
now has a pool of trainers covering all
regions of Uzbekistan. The Youth network
promotes participation of young people in
issues regarding the healthy lifestyles
through
peer-to-peer education, which implies the
information sharing between well-trained and
motivated young people and their peers
(those similar to them in age and
background). This approach helps to ensure,
either in an organized or an informal way,
that those peers have the optimal knowledge,
attitudes, beliefs and skills to be
responsible for and to protect their health
and well-being. Peer education can happen in
small groups or through individual contact
and can take place in a variety of settings.
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UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund,
is an international development agency that
promotes the right of every woman, man and
child to enjoy a life of health and equal
opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in
using population data for policies and
programs to reduce poverty and to ensure
that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth
is safe, every young person is free of
HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is
treated with dignity and respect.
For additional information please contact:
Mr. Maksim Fazlitdinov
Programme Associate on
Advocacy/Communication
UNFPA/Uzbekistan
Fazlitdinov@unfpa.org
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