Gender Equitable Attitudes and Healthy Lifestyles among Young Men and Women

The YMI third phase is strongly focused on creating an enabling environment for a long-term systematic solution for life skills education of high school and elementary school students. All efforts will be joined to accomplish the overall goal: to contribute to creating positive and peaceful societies for young people in BiH that support gender equality, improve health and decrease interpersonal violence.

For building on and going beyond the earlier achievements the YMI phase III will specifically induce the adoption of life skills curricula by educational institutions, enabling educators to support young people in developing healthy, non-violent, gender equitable behavior and thereby facilitate their smooth transition from adolescence to adulthood.

This will be accomplished through work on institutionalization, standardization and quality insurance of comprehensive Program Y in high schools as well as piloting and implementing Program E for healthy lifestyle education in elementary schools in BiH.

Furthermore, YMI III will continue in paving the way for social change in BiH by gathering support of movement/ coalition building through the development of new alliances that engage teachers, parents, universities, media representatives, young people and citizens in supporting gender equality focused life skills education program.

Program is expected directly to reach 10,000 high school and elementary students, as well as 300 teachers over a three-year period. Regarding universities, 100 university students would be enrolled, while 20 academic staff as well will be engaged in embedding Program Y in university curriculum. The campaign activities and YMI movement activities are supposed to reach 200,000 people mainly in 8 targeted communities but also across the entire country.