Voices for Change

Submit your email to volunteer to write a short blog (300-400 words) or create video blog (1-2 minutes) to share your thoughts and suggestions for the transition. 

    Meet Board member Ulukbek Batyrgaliev

    Ulukbek shares his expectations for a transformed IPPF and how to sustain a youth-centered Federation across all countries where IPPF is present.

    What it means to youth to have at least 20 per cent representation on IPPF’s new Board.

    In a series of video blogs, IPPF youth volunteers share their views on the importance of youth voices to IPPF’s future and their hopes for meaningful youth participation in the new IPPF Board of Trustees.

    Reflections on the Transition and GC

    In the lead up to the May Governing Council meeting, Dr. Sharman Stone, TC member and former commissioner on the IRAC, offers some reflections on the process.

    Read the full interview here.

    “It would have been so wonderful to have been able to physically embrace, laugh and cry with my GC colleagues as we sign off and hand over to the new regime in May.  This will now have to be virtual, but I have made life-long friends in the process, and I am in awe of the contribution of my fellow TC volunteers who can truly claim to have played a pivotal role in the reformation of the IPPF.”

    Why IPPF needs diversity

    Hi everyone, my name is Advait Pershad, from Suriname, I am the vice president and youth representative of the board of Lobi Health Center Foundation. I believe that the new BoT of IPPF should represent us in all our diversity.
    Diversity for me means having different ways of thinking combined in one group. A certain way of thinking comes from a person with their own unique story. Having different minds working for one cause is a blessing, because everyone adds a different value to the greater good.

    My call to all young people is to never stop dreaming and achieving. Your mind believes
    everything you tell it, so feed your mind with positive and ambitious thoughts and watch you win! So if we are privileged with an opportunity let’s take it, and create more for the others who don’t have one right now. Let’s design a future for us and those who come after us by seizing and creating opportunities!

    IPPF is Changing, by choice. For Choice. And we all should be part of it

    Diversity, inclusion, and youth participation

    Youth volunteer Birenda Bist, from Nepal, speaks to IPPF’s shared values and urges young people to continue driving positive change during the reform process.

    “Young people are an engine of reform.”

    Hello everyone

    My name is Hayathe AYEVA. I am 20 years old and I am the youth focal point of MAJ ATBEF TOGO.  

    Given the opportunity for me to express myself, I always say: Being young and belonging to such a great federation as IPPF is a big step and a great opportunity for our future family and professional future, since IPPF also involves young people in all these programs and policies. Young people are an engine of reform, and they should join the Board of Directors. I hope that they will be able to express their needs in matters of sexuality. Personally, I am interested in the objectives of IPPF and I am passionate about SRHR issues.

    I therefore invite young people from IPPF’s 6 regions, in particular the Africa Region, to apply for the call for applications to the Board.

    Because IPPF is changing, by choice and for choice. Thank you

    What does meaningful youth participation mean for IPPF?

    Alice Ackermann, a youth member of the Governing Council, discusses why IPPF needs youth volunteers in its governance, and why you should consider applying.

    Importance of nominations to the IPPF Board of Trustees

    I am Echat Ahmed Bacar, national president of the MAJ Comoros, Comorian association for the well-being of the family (ASCOBEF). First of all, IPPF is in full swing and it is changing by choice and for young people. And one of IPPF’s main objectives is to promote SRH for young people. So in this transitional phase I encourage young people in the Africa region to apply to the IPPF board to defend our rights, win our places and make our voices heard within the federation. We understand that as young people, we have to integrate ourselves enormously, voluntarily commit ourselves for a better future of our federation because we are IPPF’s number one partner and nothing can be done without us.

    Youth voices on SRHR matter!

    I am Diana Al-Fallaha from Syria. I’m a volunteer in Syria Family Planning Association and I attended the Arab Regional Conference and the Global Youth Forum of IPPF in New Delhi, as a Syrian youth representative. The youth today have the potential to achieve their goals and are capable of being creative. Today we, as IPPF volunteers, are in need of becoming active participants and contributors in the transition process of IPPF as decision makers.

    We must do that in order to voice our requests and needs, to express our message in this transition, to be influential leaders in our communities and societies and become equal partners in shaping the future of IPPF. Our work as volunteers of IPPF will help achieve Sustainable Development Goals which include gender equality and empowering women and specially giving her equal rights to make independent decisions.

    Be inspired to participate in IPPF’s governance.

    Egwede Juliet, a youth representative on the governing board of the Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria, shares her experience from serving on her MA’s governing body.

    Are you interested in applying for the Board/NGC?

    Transition Committee youth member Waimarama Matena gives a youth lens on the process of applying to serve on the Board or Nominations and Governance Committee.