Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education 2016 Sexual Health and Rights. They also conduct training and development programs for youth advocates and volunteers who take part in various conferences and opens up the opportunity for a lot of youth to advocate for SRH issues. 7.2 Youth Health Café An initiative under the name of the Youth Health Café was started by the Ministry of Youth and Sports with the UNDP’s financial assistance. The cafe was targeted at out of school youth. Since then they have conducted Life Skills and peer education programmes in various atolls in the Maldives. In 2008 they conducted a very successful peer education programme in Aminiya School, where they selected students with behavioral problems and provided training to them using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The success of the programme meant that by the end of the year the outreach had extended to about 700 students from the school. Similarly, in 2012 they focused on conducting outreach programmes for school children. Once again one of the main concerns raised was that organizers found it difficult to get approval from school management and the school boards. During the stakeholder meeting held in 2012, participants from YHC explained the major obstacle faced when conducting these programmes was the difficulty in getting the trained facilitators. Further, problems with accreditation of certificates made participants unwilling to take part in the training programmes. 43 SERVICES AVAILABLE FROM NON‐GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

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