Thuria Ibrahim \ Y-PEER International Network

Y-PEER stands for Youth Peer Education Network. It is a comprehensive youth-to-youth education programme initiated by UNFPA. Y-PEER is a network of more than 200 organisations and institutions involving young people working in the broad areas of adolescent sexual and reproductive health. The members of Y-PEER are young people from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and East Africa. The Y-PEER network is run by and for young people, involving person-to-person meetings, national and international training events, electronic networking, and computer -based distance learning courses, workshops and public campaigns. It aims at promoting youth participation in sexual and reproductive health issues and at building partnerships between youth and adults in advocating for the dissemination of information and knowledge on adolescent sexual and reproductive health; the creation of standards of practice and improved training resources for peer educators; the development of a stronger knowledge base for peer educators and trainers of trainers; and for the elaboration of national youth development strategies.