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Health Rights Youth Forum (HRYF)

Health Rights Youth Forums are formed with active and enthusiastic youth who are involved in different social activism. Youth Forums are formed both at district and upazila levels for a wider community engagement, data or information collection for BHW's research, and mass campaign on health rights and public service. Each Youth Forum comprises 15 to 25 youth members with a provision to have one-third female members.

Selection Criteria for HRYF Membership

Selection criteria of the youth forum are as follows:

Youths who are permanently living in selected district, upazila and union.
Have interest to work voluntarily for the improvement of health services at regions.
Have interest to collect users feedback and participate in different advocacy and campaign activities.
Have good social acceptance.
Politically non-partisan and having no direct or formal involvement in partisan political activity.
Person should not have any conflict of interest with health institutions.
Should not be convicted of any criminal offence.
Have enough respect for women and women’s rights.
Age should be between 18 and 27 years

Major Activities of Health Rights Youth Forum

Meeting	Youth Forum sits regularly for their planning, survey, campaign activities led by the coordinator.
Assisting BHW Research	Youth Forums are the frontliner of the Regional Chapter. The members collect clients' feedback. They also collect necessary data from both service recipients and service providers while assisting research activities carried out by BHW.
Campaign	Arrange different campaign activities to make mass people aware on health rights and entitlements. As part of mass campaign a Youth Forum can arrange rally, mass gathering, day observation, etc.