advances made on the technological front, with specific focus on the role that information and communication technologies (ICTs) are playing in advancing education worldwide. It will also be critical that stakeholders prioritize life skills and health education as an intrinsic component in all education and training curricula. This should as well be tied and implemented through popularizing and strengthening of civic education programmes so that ‘education’ is not necessarily tied to the ‘classroom’. 3.3 YOUTH HEALTH Health is a fundamental and cross cutting issue which has important bearing on youth’s wellbeing and capacity to partake in education, skills development, poverty eradication, and participation in the national economic, political and social processes. Of fundamental importance to young people is being given the opportunities and space to identify their sexual and reproductive health issues and needs, and that they are allowed to participate in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes to addressing these. It is also critical that all stakeholders work on establishing new and strengthening already existing youth friendly health services. This is one sure way of ensuring increased accessibility to health services for young people.