About 50 delegates from 19 organizations nationwide gathered and participated in the 1st National Peer Educator's/Facilitators Forum on ARH held in Panglao Island Bohol City last October 23-26, 2003. This 3 day forum was dubbed:" Uniting the Youth: One Vision, One Voice" organized by Remedios AIDS Foundation - YOUTH ZONE project in partnership with KABALAKA, POPCOM Region 7 through the support of Packard Foundation.
The goal of the youth forum is to provide a venue for youths to discuss/share/learn among each other's Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health project. Specific Objectives were as follows:
- Identify youth situations in their respective area
- Share project activities and learning
- Share approaches in implementing activities
- Determine gaps of their projects
This activity showed full youth participation from the conceptualization, design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of this activity. A Feedback Forum among key stakeholders was conducted last November 27 , 2003 to give the results of the workshop.
Workshop participants went home energized and revitalized as they imbibed new learnings, reflecting on past project initiatives and evoke new strategies on ARH. What is appreciated amongst participants is the process the workshop was handled and the richness of experienced by everybody.