THOSE THAT INSPIRE



Edith Esinam Asamani is a young female Ghanaian who grew up in a peri-urban slum and has reproductive health and gender issues at the core of her heart. She has been an SRHR advocate since 2012 and counting. She grew up in a community where it was a norm for adolescent girls as young as 11 or 12 to get pregnant. She knew this wasn’t right and really wanted to do something about it. Her passion and anger are what has driven her all these years to speak out and act on these challenges.

Miss Asamani has had over a decade’s experience in volunteerism, children, youth, and women’s rights advocacy. Edith is passionate about changing the world with and for young people and women. She founded KnitWeb Foundation which has initiated a virtual support network for persons suffering various forms of depression and also has as part of its flagship program, a mentorship initiative for girls and young women. She has gained some voluntary and professional work experience with UNFPA and UNICEF. She was the Conference Coordinator for the 7th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights which brought the continent’s focus to adolescents and the role they play in the demographic dividend on the continent. Both conferences were successfully organized with strong outcomes that play a key role in Africa’s voice in the Post 2015 Agenda. She is a Conference Patron for the African Youth SDGs Summit and led the reactivation of the African Youth and Adolescents’ Network on Population and Development (AfriYAN) in Ghana.

Miss Asamani had been actively involved in the International Conference on Population and Development Beyond 2014 review process, the Post 2015 agenda, and in all levels of discussions and advocacy on the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  Through these experiences, she has developed policy advocacy, media advocacy, community outreach programming and project management knowledge and skills especially in the areas of adolescent, women and youth development. 

Edith has actively engaged in the development of simplified, comic and child-friendly versions of some of these laws to make them user friendly especially for young people. Edith served on the Steering Committee of the Morocco Forum for Adolescent and Youth Human Rights Driving Sustainable Development and as a Facilitator and Rapporteur at the 2012 Global Youth Forum in Bali. The Global Youth Forum’s outcome document, the Bali Declaration, called for accountability, transparency and the need for implementation as a cross-cutting theme across all recommendations, with special focus on populations whose rights have often been overlooked in the Post 2015 Agenda.
Also, she is a member of various global and continental platforms and has consistently advocated for quality health, education and development of her constituencies; She is a Women Deliver Young Leader Alumni and a past member of the UNFPA Youth Leadership Working Group, the Young African Feminist Dialogue and an advisory member of the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. She was also the Co-Coordinator of the international advocacy group of dance4life – the dance4life Change Makers.

Today, the Youth Advisory Board of Marie Stopes Ghana celebrates you for your hard work and efforts in ensuring that every young mother gets back on her feet, becomes assertive and takes a bold decision to either go to school or learn a trade. You indeed are an inspiration to the youth and we say Ayekoo!!!!!!

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