Youth participation in sexual and reproductive health: policy, practice, and progress in Malawi.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Ensuring youth participation in policymaking that affects their health and well-being is increasingly recognized as a strategy to improve young people's reproductive health. This paper aimed to describe the policy context and analyze underlying factors that influence youth participation in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) policymaking in Malawi.

Methods

This critical, focused ethnographic study is informed by postcolonial feminism and difference-centered citizenship theory, based on data collected from October 2017 to May 2018. Multiple research methods were employed: document analysis, focus group discussions, and "moderate" participant observation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with key informants and youth, supplemented by open-ended drawing exe

SUBMITTER: Wigle J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7275026 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature