The Nuture4Youth study concluded a successful three-day co-development intervention workshop with young people in Kanyama, Lusaka, one of the study’s implementation sites. Held at the Christian Brethren CMML Church, the workshop brought together young migrants and project stakeholders to collaboratively design interventions aimed at improving access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services that are responsive to the needs and lived experiences of young people.
Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Nature4Youth is a four-year research project that seeks to generate policy-relevant evidence to strengthen the resilience, health, and wellbeing of migrant adolescents and young people (mAYP). The study focuses on mobile young people aged 18–30 who have recently migrated to urban communities, with implementation taking place in Kanyama, Lusaka, and Maramba, Livingstone.
A defining feature of the project is its collaborative, people-centred approach.
Young migrants are actively involved in shaping the interventions through co-development workshops, ensuring that proposed solutions are informed by their experiences and priorities. The project also works closely with trained peer navigators, community mobilisers, social scientists, and Young People Advisers (YPAs), whose lived experiences of migration help ensure that the interventions are relevant, practical, and sustainable.
The workshop marked an important milestone in the project, reinforcing Nature4Youth’s commitment to developing inclusive, youth-led strategies that improve access to quality sexual and reproductive health services for migrant young people in Zambia.