| Background |
Marginalised youth-particularly those facing overlapping vulnerabilities related to gender, age, disability, ethnicity, and sexual orientation-often encounter systemic barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services. The Intersectional Community Score Card (ICSC) developed under the Make Way Programme is a social accountability tool designed to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) service delivery by advancing interface between vulnerable youth and key duty bearers to improve the Availability, Acceptability, accessibility and Quality of SRH services. The intersectional community score card (ICSC) was implemented at Awach Health Centre IV and Pukony Health Centre II in Gulu district Northern Uganda. |
| Learning objectives |
To learn about the ICSC processes and how it addresses the SRHR needs and priorities of marginalised youth to improve the Availability, Acceptability, accessibility and Quality (AAAQ) of SRH services, and how to engage marginalised youth as the main focus group of all ICSC processes. |
| Expected topics |
The expected topics of discussion are the 6 steps created to facilitate the use of the ICSC as a tool to ensure AAAQ for SRH by young people, These are:
• 1st step- Stakeholder analysis, PEA and Social Exclusion analysis
• 2nd step-youth Rights Awareness.
• 3rd step- Issue Identification and scoring by the youth
• 4th step-Scoring by Duty bearers
• 5th step-Interface meeting between the youth and duty bearers about their SRH needs.
• 6th Step- selection of a Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) responsible for implementing the action plan. |
| Main messages |
The ICSC demonstrates the power of intersectional, youth-led accountability in addressing systemic SRHR inequalities. Its successful replication across five additional districts-Kampala, Kalangala, Terego, and Mukono-highlights its potential for broader scale-up. The ICSC, as a proven approach for generating community-driven evidence, can be adopted by civil society organizations and governments to positively influence SRHR policy, targeted funding, and service delivery. By actively engaging marginalised youth in shaping and monitoring SRHR services, the ICSC promotes gender equity, deepens social inclusion, and contributes to building more responsive and accountable health systems. |
| Presenters and affiliations |
Loretta Owino Okeny VSO International |
