Health & Wellbeing
Youth advocacy for SRHR, mental health, and maternal wellbeing - because healthy youth build healthy communities.
The Challenge
In Africa, adolescent girls and young women face compounding barriers to health: limited menstrual health education, stigma, inadequate access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) information, and invisible mental health burdens. These are not peripheral issues - they directly determine whether a young person can attend school, participate in civic life, and lead in their community. The climate crisis amplifies all of them.
Our Approach
AYA integrates health into every dimension of its work. RISE delivers menstrual health education and dignity kits in partnership with global menstrual hygiene entities. And our broader health work is intentionally linked to climate justice; because period dignity and environmental resilience are, for many young Ghanaians, the same struggle.
Current Initiatives
RISE integrates AYA’s health, climate, and inclusion work into one coherent intervention.
Goal
To improve the health, leadership capacity, and environmental agency of young people across Africa.
- Expand menstrual health education and reusable dignity kits to adolescent girls through tailored interventions
- Amplify youth voices on climate, gender, and health
- #GreenRISE digital campaign linking climate change impacts to girls’ health and menstrual equity
Launched with eA MAAK Consult and Youth Force Ghana, Aqua Brief Africa is a youth-facing knowledge and advocacy platform on Africa’s Blue Economy and aquaculture futures. Already producing branded content and public dialogues, it gives African youth a credible voice in fisheries, aquaculture, and maritime policy.
- Youth-focused knowledge platform with articles, explainers, and advocacy content on African aquaculture
- Youth Blue Economy dialogues;Â panels featuring youth fisherfolk, aquaculture entrepreneurs, and policy actors
- Aqua Brief Africa Youth Position Paper on African Aquaculture (output of dedicated dialogue session)
Key partners: eA MAAK Consult, Youth Force Ghana
A creative platform amplifying youth voices on environmental justice through music, performance, visual arts, and digital content creation.
- Music, performance, visual arts exhibitions, and theatre focused on climate and environmental narratives
- Digital media and content creation by and for youth
- Youth artist showcase and advocacy campaigns