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SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN PERU, CHILE AND ARGENTINA

APPLICATION TO OPERATION DAYS WORK AI NORWAY SEPTEMBER 2014

WHO WE ARE

AI NORWAY AND OUR YOUTH ACTIVISM With over 100,000 members and supporters, AI Norway is the Norwegian chapter of Amnesty International, the world’s largest membership based human rights organisation. Youth activists play a crucial role in the work of AI Norway, developing and carrying out human rights activism around the country. This human rights activism includes cooperation with local partners, holding meetings and information stands, organising street demonstrations, lobbying local politicians, carrying out information work in schools and ensuring local press coverage. A youth representative sits on the board of AI Norway. In the past two years, AI Norway has been working with engaged young activists intensively, training them on how to develop and carry out their own human rights activism projects. In addition, our youth meet for one day before the biannual General Assembly, to discuss human rights issues and prepare campaigns and actions. In 2013 80 youth activists attended. Our youth activists also contribute to Amnesty’s global campaigns, strategies and activities at the annual Nordic Youth Conference. Through these activities, AI Norway and our 5 regional offices has a widespread and positive experience working with youth and facilitating their active and independent participation in the work of AI Norway.

As part of the NRK Telethon in 2012, AI Norway toured schools campaigning for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transexual people’s rights. During a workshop at Lillehammer High School, the students did a dance performance to express these rights.

“A year ago I was allowed to represent Amnesty Norway on TV2 as part of the seminar “Anonymous Cowards”. The fact that such a large organization trusted someone as young as me with that task, I was only 17 then, gave me enormous confidence and it was an experience like no other. In Amnesty I'm involved in working for human rights and changing my little part of the world, regardless of who I am and how old I am.” Nancy Herz, 18 (above left)

OUR EXPERIENCE IN CAMPAIGNING As a campaigning and advocacy organisation, AI Norway has extensive experience and a strong track record of successful and innovative campaigning and promotional work: n High school students engaged in a song writing contest with Norwegian rap artist Lars Vaular. A total of 140 songs with lyrics affirming human rights were submitted and the winning song has now been recorded. n In 2013, AI Norway’s young activist volunteers promoted lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and inter-gender rights visiting 39 schools around the country with our campaign ‘To love is a human right’. Students expressed their feelings and demanded for these rights through art, a street artist taught the students how to make graffiti paintings. n For the past two years AI Norway has run an anti-rape campaign called ‘No means no’ targeting high school graduates. We have reached 1000 young people through speeches at schools and educational materials for teachers. AI Norway’s team of campaigners and information officers are keen to use their creativity to contribute to an exceptional Operation Days Work campaign. The most recent experience is the successful cooperation with NRK for the Telethon in 2012, where the whole organization contributed to the fundraising event and information campaign. This was the third time AI Norway was awarded the NRK Telethon. With this recent experience behind us and as a recipient of the Operation Days Work fund in 1990, we believe our strong staff team and volunteers have the experience and enthusiasm required to engage young people in Norway in the Operation Days Work campaign, and we have the required financial recourses to carry it out.

PROGRAMME CONTENT

CONTEXT, BACKGROUND AND OVERALL SCOPE OF THE PROGRAMME

HOW WE’VE INVOLVED YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS PROGRAMME As a first step, to investigate this we asked young people in Argentina, Chile and Peru four questions to determine what their needs are for their Sexual and Reproductive health, rights and lives: What concerns you most about your sexual and reproductive rights? What do you think needs to change? What do you think you could do/AI could do to change this through this programme? By 2021/2 what do you hope will be different for you and your peers? Using this information Amnesty International Argentina, Amnesty International Chile and Amnesty International Peru came together at a workshop in Buenos Aires to think about a regional framework for the programme. A programme plan for how to address the common areas of concern was born using a Theory of Change approach which poses 3 key questions: What’s the change that we want to see? What/who needs to change to realise this? What can we (AI, partners and young people) do to influence this change? Amnesty International Argentina, Amnesty International Chile and Amnesty International Peru took this framework and met with the young people in their own countries to run a similar workshop. Asking the young people the same questions, to address problems and concerns relevant to their country. What we as Amnesty International can do to address this is reflected in the design of the programme content.

At Amnesty International, we believe we all have the right to make decisions about our own health, body, sexuality and reproductive life. We respect and celebrate sexual diversity and we believe that no matter where you live in the world, everyone has the right to education and health services which enable you to make choices about sexuality, sexual relationships and when and if to have children. This is enshrined in international law in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Young people in Chile, Peru and Argentina we have talked to tell us that they currently don’t have these rights and the decisions that should be theirs – about their body, sexuality and health – are often taken by others. Teenage pregnancy is high, often resulting in young girls not being able to complete their education and a future without qualifications and employment opportunities. Comprehensive sexuality education in schools is in some cases non-existent (Peru) and though a new law has just been passed to introduce it, there is a risk that it will be repealed; in some cases it exists but the quality is not standardised (Chile) or there is resistance from schools to teach it as teachers and parents disagree with the content and believe that its promoting sex at too young an age (Chile and Argentina). Young people have difficulty in accessing sexual health services: those that exist are poor quality and in Chile young people who seek emergency contraception are subject to their parents being informed. In Peru young people need their parents’ permission to get any kind contraception. Young people see these as barriers. Young people are left not knowing the full story about contraception, abortion and other health services available to them. They have no space to discuss it with someone who has answers, no one to ask for advice. They are left feeling like adults don’t treat them like individuals, don’t understand their needs and don’t trust them to make their own decisions. Talking about these issues is not encouraged in society and they are seen as taboo subjects. We know this because Amnesty International is currently running a global campaign called My Body My Rights which encourages young people around the world to know and demand their right to make decisions about their health, body, sexuality and reproduction without state control, fear, coercion or discrimination. The campaign aims to remind world leaders of their obligations to take positive action to protect these rights, including through access to health services and information about sexuality and reproduction, and to ensure people live free from discrimination, coercion and violence including sexual violence, female genital mutilation, forced pregnancy, abortion, sterilization or marriage.

The campaign highlights some situations which exist for young people in different countries around the world, which we are determined should not go unheard and ignored, and on which we are campaigning in order to improve the lives of millions. Through this campaign we are discovering more and more about the situation of sexual and reproductive rights of young people in Latin America, situations which young people in Latin America tell us they are concerned about and which we believe we need to do something about. Therefore this Operation Days Work programme is a timely opportunity to work with young people in Latin America in depth to support them to address their concerns on such an urgent issue.

The My Body My Rights campaign is launched in Peru, early 2014.

SUMMARY OF THE PROGRAMME Our programme will enable young people in Argentina, Chile and Peru to know and understand their rights in regards to sexual orientation, gender, sexual and reproductive health and to make informed decisions about their own bodies and sexuality; their right to choose their partners and with whom, when and if they have children, and access to the services they need. Through human rights education for empowerment and action we will support them to support each other in the process of developing knowledge, skills and attitudes regarding sexual orientation, sexuality and reproductive rights as they create safe spaces and facilitate discussion, debate and analysis of the issues, and challenge their own attitudes and values through peer-to-peer education. They will develop the ability to make plans to achieve positive change in their lives and communities. We will enable and support young people to come together, gain confidence, develop skills and leadership capacities and become motivated and inspired to act as a force for change. We will leverage and amplify their voices through the Amnesty International movement, so they are empowered to, and can, access opportunities to speak out in society to change other young people’s perceptions and gather public support. Through campaigning actions, they will demand to be able to make decisions about their own bodies without fear, coercion or discrimination. We will train, mentor and accompany youth leaders as advocates to take young people’s voices to the powerful, to have their stories, concerns and needs heard by those in authority and positions of influence, and to demand their rights are fulfilled. Throughout the project, we will monitor the diversity of participants, and actively look for and encourage participation of groups in the region that may be under-represented in the project, aiming to have an equal membership of boys and girls in all activities. The programme will start at the beginning of 2016 and finish at the end of 2020.

OUR PARTNERS EXPERIENCE OF WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AI Argentina has worked with young people for a long time. Most recently, in 2013, they worked together with several partners to develop learning tools for young people on sexual and reproductive rights and to prepare them for the UN States Regional Conference on Population and Development, which took place in Uruguay as part of the UN Cairo + 20 Process. Some young activists were able to participate in the Foro de Juventudes Rumbo a Cairo+20, where 100 young leaders from Latin America came together to support and promote youth participation in public policy discussions nationally and regionally. The document that came out from that meeting was read in the States Conference. AI Peru has a long experience working with young people in Peru and 55% of their members are under 24 year old. In the last few years they have worked with local schools on a Human Rights Friendly Schools programme, giving young people the opportunity to join Amnesty’s human rights activism, learn about human rights through our international campaigns, including the arms control campaign and more local campaigns focusing on non-discrimination. Last year, with the launch of the global My Body, My Rights campaign they started working with young people on sexual and reproductive rights. They started training youth in Lima, Arequipa and Chiclayo. AI Chile has been slowly building experience on working with youth over the years through introducing the Human Rights Friendly schools programme in schools. Al Norway is currently in partnership with all three partners as part of the Education-Empowerment-Justice (EEJ) Programme 2014 funded by Norad as part of the NRK Telethon 2012. EEJ funding is for a project which focuses on sexual and reproductive rights, and is one of the building blocks for this Operation Days Work programme.

WHERE IN THE WORLD PERU

We will work in the following geographical areas and with the following primary targets in each country

Lima, Callao and Ica (coast) Iquitos (jungle area) and Apurimac (Andean land). Young people living in slums or poor areas, indigenous youth and youth studying in state-run schools with low access to health services.

CHILE

Tarapaca, Atacama, Coquimbo, Metropolitan Region of Santiago, O’Higgins, Maule, Biobio, Aysen and Magallanes. Young people from mid-low socio economic backgrounds, attending state-run schools and using state-run public health centres. In some of the regions, indigenous youth will be targeted. Average age of the target group is 14-15 years.

ARGENTINA

Buenos Aires Province, Cordoba and Mendoza, Santa Fe and Salta Province. State-run and private high-school students (aged 13-17), university students from public universities (aged 17-19) and non-formal youth groups (17-19). Disadvantaged young people, such as young people living with HIV, indigenous youth and disabled youth will be encouraged to join the project

AREA 1: EDUCATING AND INSPIRING YOUNG PEOPLE!

We will increase young people’s access to information on sexuality, sexual and reproductive rights and health services.

A young man expresses his support for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transexual people in Lima Peru, June 2014.

OUR TARGET GROUP Overall our programme will train 2000 young people from a variety of backgrounds by partnering with local organisations. We will train 300 18-19 year olds as youth leaders who will then peer-educate their younger peers, and be involved in the training of some of our secondary targets such as teachers and public health workers. The youth leaders will be trained in sexual and reproductive rights and campaigning and peer educate their younger peers in workshops that we will organise and which they will lead. The idea for the youth leaders came from the young people themselves as they said they needed a mentor to guide them, someone young who they would have confidence in to discuss their questions and problems, and give them advice about their body and sexuality. Youth leaders and peers together will form a network of youth activists who will actively campaign on key sexual and reproductive rights issues which they will identify for themselves. Youth leaders will then be trained in advocacy and Amnesty International will accompany these youth advocates to talk directly to government.

Young people expressed concerns about not having comprehensive and correct information on their sexual and reproductive rights. Young people feel that they don’t have space to talk about issues related to sexuality, and sexual orientation and reproduction. They are taboo subjects and people can be stigmatised for discussing them or challenging the norm. The quality of reproductive health services is low, there is a lack of youth friendly services that are non-judgemental and young people want to get contraception without parental consent. There is a disparity in the quality of service provision in different areas of the countries. Comprehensive sexuality education, including sexual diversity, exists in the law but implementation is weak, and only incorrect and partial information is available.

“As much as they say that we are in an open generation, where maybe kids have more space, even so it still is a taboo issue.” A young person we spoke to in Chile, aged 15

Church and parental influence affects the content of education materials – in some cases schools sent back government issued materials without even opening them, as the parents have opposed sexuality education being taught in schools. Adults’ perceptions of young people needs to change as young people feel that this is the underlying reason for other concerns: parents are not comfortable with young people having rights over their own bodies.

HOW WILL WE ADDRESS THIS? We will use a participatory human rights education approach tailored to each of our target groups – young people, teachers, parents and health professionals – we will work with to train them in comprehensive sexuality education, challenging attitudes and beliefs. We will inspire young people to take action on issues they identify as most important to themselves. Human rights education transforms attitudes and behaviours, and informs and inspires young people to take action. Participatory education is different to traditional ‘student-teacher’ style education as each person is able to influence their own education. In participatory human rights education, the young people will take part in role plays, theatre, song, inter-generational dialogue, peer-to-peer education, focus groups and ‘clubs’ as appropriate, to understand international laws and treaties as well as national laws and how this applies to their lives. We have tried and tested many

HRE approaches with young people and teachers in schools in Africa, Asia and Europe, and whole villages in Africa. Sexuality, sexual health and reproduction are sensitive topics in other continents too and we’ve learned how to work on sensitive issues which require a slow building of trust. We are aware that sexual violence, rape, abortion and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intergender young people are issues that are entwined with the concerns that young people have expressed themselves, and that these issues exist in these countries. As the programme activities get underway, and as we gain the confidence and trust of young people, we expect these issues will come to the surface and we are fully prepared to address them using our human rights education approach in a sensitive and appropriate way.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES n

Conduct a baseline study to research young people’s knowledge, attitudes, behaviour and practice in relation to sexuality, reproduction and sexual health, and local access to information and health services in the specific geographic areas of each country where the programme will be implemented. n Develop educational materials on sexual diversity, gender, sexual and reproductive rights with young people. n Train a group of young people to become ‘youth leaders’ who will use a participatory human rights education approach to then peerto-peer train other young people on sexual and reproductive rights. n With young people’s involvement, train teachers in sexual and reproductive rights, to understand and know how to apply national laws on sexual and reproductive rights; where possible engage with parents through schools/partners by creating spaces for parents and young people to discuss sexual and reproductive rights issues in order to increase intergenerational understanding. n Using Amnesty International’s human rights education methodologies and with young people’s involvement, train health professionals in public health centres, university medical departments or hospitals in sexual and reproductive rights issues and youth friendly service approaches.

SECONDARY TARGETS IN ALL 3 COUNTRIES We will not necessarily work with all the following secondary targets in all regions or with all young people involved in the programme. Since we will follow a bottom-up approach, in the first years our focus will be local, and we will work with the young people in identifying their main concerns and who the appropriate targets will be to resolve them. In some cases it may be parents, in others the teachers or health professionals, in others the local authorities and in others all of them. Parents: Considering the socio-economic background of young people we will work with, we will reach families with a similar background. Teachers: We will work with young people who predominantly attend state-run schools, teachers in such schools will be of a similar background, underpaid and working in a variety of conditions. Health professionals: We will work with public health centres, university medical departments or hospitals which have varying levels of resources and capacity. Health professionals may be overworked and not have capacity to give full attention to everybody.

An example of a peer education approach we have used and which we will replicate in this project: ‘Each one teach one’ Amnesty International Ghana in partnership with the Ghana Education Service (GES), is running a project to increase the retention of girls in nine schools. ‘Child Rights’ clubs have been formed in three schools with members educating their peers on their rights using an innovative “Each One Teach One, Teach One” approach. Each trained peer educator trains another student, who in turn trains another, creating a multiplier effect and ensuring that skills and knowledge are continually passed on to others. In order to remember and encourage teaching at least one of their peers, students have created a song about the approach which they sing regularly during Club meetings. The approach is innovative not only because it is led by young people themselves but it is also done informally so there is no need to plan, any venue is suitable and students can talk to their peers at any time, be it at school or in the community.

DIRECT RESULTS OF THE ACTIVITIES

n 300 trained youth leaders are using a peer-to-peer approach to reach out to other young people (inspiring, raising awareness, informing and training other young people). Young people are using participatory methodologies and approaches with their peers and the community. Young people are developing their own material and tools to engage and connect with others to protect and promote sexual and reproductive rights. n 2000 young people (600-700 per country) understand their sexual and reproductive rights as part of their human rights, and have increased their confidence, knowledge and ability to access information and health services on sexuality and sexual health; have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to promote, claim and defend their rights and the rights of others.

CHANGES IN YOUNG PEOPLE’S LIVES Through our programme we believe we can make the following changes to this Programme Area by 2020: n Young people understand and respect diverse sexual orientation, sexual and reproductive rights as human rights and develop a sense of responsibility to uphold them. n Young people can freely access their sexual and reproductive rights, including information, education and services, make their own decisions about their sexual and reproductive rights and health, and can facilitate other young people in the development of their knowledge and skills and share their experiences on sexual and reproductive rights to other young people. n Young people will know who to turn to in the case of sexual violence and rape.

AREA 2: YOUTH ACTIVISM: RAISING OUR OWN VOICES!

We will enable young people to generate public support for, and to claim their sexual and reproductive rights in society. The young people we spoke to want to change society’s perception of young people, to allow them to make their own decisions and to trust them – they are worried about their future. Society thinks that young people don’t have rights as an individual but need supervision of adults.

other countries in the Latin America region but Operation Days Work will not fund the other countries. n Train youth networks in campaigning and assist them in developing a strategy to campaign (including media and communications) for the removal of barriers in government policy and policy implementation. n Develop young people’s leadership capacity to plan their own campaigns and carry out their own influencing actions including learning influencing strategies and power analysis. n National and regional workshops for young leaders to share experience, tools and, strategies and learn from each other. n Young people conduct campaigning actions at key moments e.g. International Youth Day; International Human Rights Day, Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign. n Young people train targeted journalists in sexual and reproductive rights issues; and build partnerships with existing radio/TV programmes targeting young people to discuss and debate sexual and reproductive rights issues; young people create radio/TV programmes where they don’t already exist for youth.

HOW WILL WE ADDRESS THIS?

“There is a stigma against young people in society that needs to change. We can’t do this on our own. Amnesty International can help us to make our voices heard and empower other young people to know their sexual rights”. A young person we talked to in Argentina, aged 19.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES n

Young people create national and regional networks and identify communication tools (social media etc) for network platforms to reach out to peers. The regional network will include

Building on Objective 1, and the transformational changes that will be brought about within young people through human rights education, young people will be empowered to become agents for change to promote and protect sexual and reproductive rights in their societies. As agents for change ready to take action, we will use our expertise in campaigning to support those young people to form a strong network and platform to campaign to overcome the barriers that exist in society so that young people can enjoy their sexual and reproductive rights. This platform will have the solidarity of Amnesty International’s global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in more than 150 countries and territories around the world. People who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights through online actions, letter writing, rallies and events on significant days such as International Youth Day, Human Rights Day and Amnesty International’s annual Write for Rights and 16 days of Activism campaigns. We have used this approach in Asia where Amnesty International supported young people to set up the Asia Pacific Youth Network. It is based on the idea that individuals working collectively can create change. The network is a community of young people who respect diversity and engagement through activism.

In Chile in early 2014, Amnesty activists are campaigning for sexual and reproductive rights as part of the My Body My Rights campaign.

SECONDARY TARGETS General public: We will reach the general public through the media, and through public campaigning actions. Media: We will work directly with the media to train them and ensure they portray youth and their voices in a positive and nondiscriminatory way.

DIRECT RESULTS OF THE ACTIVITIES

n All trained young people (youth leaders and those they have directly peer-educated) have formed a national network in each country and a campaigning strategy is in place to generate public support for young people and their rights. n National youth networks carry out 36 campaigning actions (3 per year in each country for year’s 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the programme) and to generate support for their sexual and reproductive rights.

CHANGES IN ACTIVISM AND MOBILISATION Through our programme we believe we can make the following changes to this Programme Area by 2020: n Young people have a space in society to claim, promote and defend their rights and do so through a strong youth network. n Young people confidently exercise their voice, communicate their messages to society and government, and create the change they want to see in their lives and communities. n Young people take action to campaign for changes in attitudes and behaviours and gain public support for promoting and protecting theirs and others’ sexual and reproductive rights.

AREA 3: YOUTH ADVOCATES: BRINGING OUR VOICES TO OUR PEOPLE IN POWER We will enable young people to engage with and influence government policy on sexual and reproductive education and health services.

An example of an individual case that we at Amnesty International have campaigned on:

“Give women the treatment that they need, don’t make other women suffer like they did me.” 22 year old Beatriz, September 2013

In April 2013, Beatriz (not her real name) stood up for her rights, demanding the medical treatment necessary to save her life. Beatriz has lupus and kidney problems. When she became pregnant, doctors told her that continuing her pregnancy could kill her. The foetus was also lacking part of its brain and skull, and would not have survived. But doctors felt that their hands were tied by a law so extreme that only a handful of countries impose similar legislation. Beatriz was eventually given the medical intervention she needed, as a result of her courage and a concerted campaign by Salvadoran organizations, Amnesty International activists and many others. Even after the scandal of Beatriz’s case, the total abortion ban, which almost cost her life, remains in place. Amnesty International is campaigning to challenge violence against women and girls in El Salvador, including the criminalization of abortion in all circumstances.

In Peru, policy states that when young people want to access contraception, they must be accompanied by their parents. In Chile, policy states that when young people access emergency contraception, their parents have to be notified, and in practice often the presence of parents is required to provide any kind of contraception. In Argentina, by law young people can access contraception but in reality, the quality of the services is poor, not youth-friendly and judgemental and health professionals don’t always give the correct information. Young people expressed these as barriers to accessing contraception and a change in policy and practice is needed. Young people are also concerned about not having comprehensive and correct information on their sexual and reproductive rights, and that they are not getting the information they need from the school curriculum. Even though in all three countries policies are in place that should ensure this, they are not implemented properly because of value judgements of the teachers or parental influence, or the materials are not standardised. Young people expressed that at a local and national level educational policies need to be implemented properly.

“We want to go directly to the authorities, we don’t want to have someone represent us, we want to express our concerns by ourselves – we need a platform to do that.” A young person we spoke to in Argentina, aged 19

HOW WILL WE ADDRESS THIS?

An Argentinian youth demands for the rights of Beatriz and other women like her, she is holding a poster saying “Beatriz has the right to live”.

We have lobbied governments time and time again by amplifying the concerns of their country’s people and the stories of victims of human rights violations to leaders of government, talking to them in person about what they can do to improve the lives of their citizens. Amnesty International is known all over the world as a powerful voice on human rights, and we will use this authority to accompany young people to the offices of power and put them in a place where they can have the ear of those in power.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES n

Train youth leaders in advocacy and assist them in developing an advocacy strategy to influence education and health policies on sexual and reproductive rights and create space in government where youth can be heard at local, national and regional level; n Leverage advocacy opportunities such as strategic litigation cases, reports and hearings at national courts with national youth networks including in civil society advocacy spaces, and at regional and international courts (Inter-American system and UN system) with the regional youth network.

IMPLEMENTATION AND FOLLOW UP OF THE PROGRAMME

SECONDARY TARGETS IN EACH COUNTRY

SUSTAINABILITY OF THE PROGRAMME

Government authorities: Locally the relevant authorities will be the Municipalities, who are in charge of both schools and health centres. The main target may be the Mayor, but it could also be lower-level staff. In years 4 and 5, the targets will be national Ministries and Ministers who are responsible for related national education and health laws and policies. National, regional and international courts: Where relevant we will take cases to court.

After 2020, we will encourage the youth activists and youth advocates within this programme to continue this work and mobilise others to continue working towards these changes. We will encourage them to become Amnesty International members and support them through our membership. In the long term this programme will prepare the ground for the next generation to enable them to understand and enjoy their sexual and reproductive rights, so that access to sexual health and rights information and contraception increases, and teenage pregnancies decrease, and that young people can talk more openly about their sexuality and have respect for sexual diversity amongst their peers.

DIRECT RESULTS OF THE ACTIVITIES

n 300 trained Youth leaders (80-100 for each country) from 3 national young peopleâ€™s networks know how to advocate on behalf of their youth peers to people in positions of power to change local, and national level laws and policies. n Youth leaders have lobbied local councillors and politicians in 6 face to face meetings (2 in each country), and received feedback or affirmations of their suggestions for policy improvement or change. Through our programme we believe we can make the following changes to this Programme Area by 2020:

CHANGES IN SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION

n Sexuality and reproductive health education is comprehensive and fully implemented in the schools where we have worked. n Health services provided for young people guarantee youth friendly, non-judgemental, non-discriminatory information and health advice and care on contraception and abortion in those regions/cities. n Steps have been taken to ensure that the laws in Chile and Peru allow young people to access sexual reproductive health services without barriers including without parental consent (Peru) or without parents being notified for emergency contraceptiovvn (Chile). In Argentina, the laws that allow young people to access services from the age of 14 years old are implemented accordingly in the areas where we have worked, without imposing additional requirements. n Steps have been taken to ensure that governments effectively monitor and supervise the correct and full implementation of existing laws on education on sexual and reproductive health with support from schools, and without cultural and religious influences.

RISKS IN IMPLEMENTATION AND HOW WE WILL MANAGE THEM Risk 1: Individual participants, such as trained youth leaders, withdraw from the project. Management strategy: maintain good relationships with primary and secondary targets, and get regular feedback from targets on project activities to ensure quality in content and implementation of activities. Risk 2: Partner capacity to reach project goals and monitor and track activities and financial expenses. Management strategy: We will provide a common project management and accounting manual, as well as training and ongoing capacity building support as indicated by the partners. Risk 3: Change in government policy or attitude towards sexual and reproductive rights or civil society space. Management strategy: we will work closely with the local partners to monitor the political situation, and adapt our strategy according to any changes in the political agenda. Risk 4: Devaluation of national currency. Management strategy: we will transfer funds on a 6 monthly basis, only for planned and budgeted activities. We will monitor activities and budgets monthly to avoid underspends or overspends.

OUR ROLE AND ADDED VALUE IN PROJECT COLLABORATION A new cooperation through Operation Days Work will build on AI Norwayâ€™s existing relationship with the partners in Argentina, Chile and Peru and enable our sections in those countries to develop their work with young people further on the theme of sexual and reproductive rights.

Project planning and implementation of activities will be done by the three Amnesty sections, with support from the coordinator in AI Norway as needed. The three Amnesty sections are respected and highly competent organisations with the necessary capacity to carry out the project. They will work together with other local organisations in their respective countries, and be responsible for gathering narrative and financial information from these organisations. The three Amnesty sections will submit their narrative and financial reports to the coordinator in AI Norway. AI Norway will have a coordinating role and will be responsible for submitting consolidated plans and reporting to Operation Days Work as well as making sure that the three Amnesty sections have access to the needed support and capacity building. Monitoring of and support for the programme will be ensured through regular email, phone and skype contact as well as site visits. The programme will also benefit from the expertise of other sections around the movement, Amnesty International’s International Secretariat in London, and our Regional Office in Latin America.

Norwegian youth prepare for a flash mob during one of Amnesty International Norway’s Youth Gatherings.

We will continue to develop existing financial partnerships on openness and mutual trust to ensure that all funds are being spent as agreed and that the local partner organisations are given the support and capacity building that they need to account for the grant. AI Norway’s monitoring routines are developed taking into account the requirements set by the Amnesty International movement and by Norad. AI Norway’s anti-corruption work is based on Amnesty International and Norad’s zero-tolerance policy on corruption. AI Norway will sign legally binding contracts specifying roles and responsibilities with the three partner organisations for the full programme period, supplemented by annual agreements. Similar agreements will be signed by our three partner organisations with their respective local partners in the three countries. The grant will be transferred to each organisation in two instalments per year upon timely delivery of 6 month and annual narrative reports, and annual financial audits complying with international standards. The auditors used by the three Amnesty sections are regularly checked and adhere to Amnesty International global standards.

Hearts produced by Norwegian youth in solidarity with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transexual people around the world.

BUDGET Activities

Partner

Amount (in NOK)

Education, campaigning and advocacy

AI Argentina

7 500 000

Education, campaigning and advocacy

AI Chile

7 200 000

Education, campaigning and advocacy

AI Peru

7 020 000

Regional workshops

All three partners

700 000

Follow-up and capacity building (8%)

2 080 000

Administration (5%)

1 300 000

Total budget

26 000 000