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Youth Are a Driving Force Behind ICFP
According to the results of the ICFP 2025 Youth Summit feedback survey, the majority of respondents (86%) agree that ICFP plays a “significant role” in increasing the visibility and engagement of youth advocates in family planning.
ICFP offers a multitude of engagement pathways for youth involved or interested in any area of family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Explore all the ways youth are leading the movement toward universal access toSRHR through the initiatives below.
ICFP 2025 Youth Pre-conference Registrants
ICFP 2025 Youth Trailblazer Award Winners
Organizations Comprising the AYSRHR GRA
ICFP 2025 Youth Highlights
There were three distinct youth spaces designed by and for youth at ICFP 2025: the Youth Summit, Youth Plenary, and Youth Lounge.
Each of these youth-led spaces provided dynamic opportunities for knowledge exchange, capacity building, mentorship, and networking for young people working in SRHR. Read more about the impact of each of these initiatives below.
See What ICFP Youth Are Saying!
“Despite coming from a marginalized community, the Phil Harvey SRHR Innovation Award reminded me that my work is being seen, we are being heard, and our voices matter. The award opened doors to new advocacy platforms and leadership opportunities, strengthening my confidence to champion community-led solutions and elevate voices often left out of decision-making spaces. It continues to inspire my commitment to ensuring that policies, programs, and investments in SRHR are shaped by our lived realities.”
Silvia Okoth
2025 Phil Harvey SRHR Innovation Award Winner
“Being a youth advocate can be an exhausting, tiring and often unrewarding journey where you’re constantly trying to build a space for yourself and your work despite all barriers – in the midst of this chaos, the passion is often lost. I’ve been working in SRHR for half a decade now, and these episodes of hopelessness fueled by the rising anti-rights movements, far-right politics, and funding cuts have become more common.
Being an ICFP Trailblazer was a reminder that as a young person, I hold power – power to show up, power to take space, and power to keep my passion for reproductive justice alive in the face of all odds.”
Sila Nighat Shahid
ICFP 2025 Youth Trailblazer Award Winner
“Being part of the ICFP 2025 Trailblazers strengthened my voice as a young man living with HIV and an SRHR advocate from Cameroon. It affirmed that our lived experiences are powerful tools for policy change. The journey has expanded my global network and deepened my commitment to advancing youth-led, rights-based, and stigma free sexual and reproductive health services.”
Maxime Bivina
ICFP 2025 Youth Trailblazer Award Winner
ICFP 2025 Youth Trailblazers
The ICFP 2025 Youth Trailblazer Award aims to amplify and highlight the voices of young leaders (aged 18-35) from around the world in the family planning and SRHR field through active planning and participation in the ongoing ICFP platform and the ICFP 2025 conference.
The 40 Youth Trailblazers for ICFP 2025 each engaged with ICFP 2025 through subcommittees, side events, pre-conferences, and other impactful events.
Youth Subcommittee
The ICFP Youth Subcommittee brings together young people from around the world with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and expertise to advance the sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice agenda. The Youth Subcommittee organizes the ICFP Youth Summit, a multi-day event focused on concepts around human rights, inclusivity, justice, identity diversity, and gender equity.
AYSRHR Global Roadmap for Action
Launched at the ICFP 2022 conference in Pattaya City, Thailand, the Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Global Roadmap for Action (AYSRHR GRA) is a growing coalition of 40+ youth-led organizations and collectives, as well as a robust platform for implementing a youth vision for SRHR, co-created and led by youth from around the world.
