“The current global youth [population] bulge provides an unprecedented opportunity. [This is] the largest pool of children and youth in recorded history. It also provides an opportunity to capture the demographic bonus or dividend. Youth can be a positive force for change. Youth can be a positive change for the future if the right investments are made early.”— Elizabeth Lule, World Bank
“This conference is uniquely desgined to assemble researchers and policy makers together to freely interact and share knowledge that will promote and better prepare our youths for the new world that we all desire now and in future.”
— Oladosu Ojengbede, Centre for Population and Reproductive Health, College of Medicien, University of Ibadan
“Twenty years ago most research was focused on the why, making the case for attention to adolescents. … This conference provides abundant attention to WHAT needs to be done for adolescents.”
— Jane Ferguson, World Health Organization
“This meeting will be very useful to learn state of art in this field; we need to make sure we have evidence to convince policymakers to invest early in adolescence. We need to know how to target those young people out of reach especially married adolescents and unmarried girls. We need better evidence of how to design health services deliery models. We need to improve our standards of how to deliver young-friendly reproductive health services.”
— Laura Laski, UNFPA
“Our hope for this conference is that we will all come out with evidence-based findings that will better inform policy planning design and implementation for improving young people’s health.”
— Abdullahi Maiwada, USAID Nigeria
“The slogan of this conference, “Youth Deliver the Future,” is an apt one. Without the proper development of young people thre will be no future development anywhere.”
— Hajia Turai Umar Yar’Adua, First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; her opening remarks given by the Minister of Health and Labour, Dr. Hassan Muhammad Lawal
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