PEERCAST

Y-Peer Egypt: UNFPA Egypt

Location: Egypt

Y-Peer is a youth-led network pioneered globally by UNFPA in 2002. Y-Peer Egypt is one of the most active national networks in the world. It has been operating in Egypt since 2005 with more than 125 local NGOs and almost 3,000 members.

Due to the current situation of the COVID19 pandemic and the urgent need to inform the young people about the infection methods and the precautionary measures of the virus and engage them in the response to the global pandemic, UNFPA Egypt CO is supporting Y-Peer Egypt to find and scale up new ideas from the young people to spread the right messages on the virus using technological tools to avoid the gatherings and in light of the quarantine.

PEERCAST is a podcast program from youth to youth that opens new a era for raising awareness among young people on population issues using new technologies through a new platform. The first season of the podcast is dedicated to COVID19, where the young people interviewed experts from WHO and ministry of health and population (MOHP) in Egypt to spread the right information and correct the misconceptions and rumors about the virus.

The episodes of the podcast are recorded remotely. The interviewer sends the questions to the interviewee who records the answers and send it back, then the episode is edited in the final shape. Till now, the first three episodes are available on SoundCloud and Youtube covering the transmission methods of the virus, the precautionary measures and answers to most frequently asked questions about the virus, and other episodes will follow in the next days and weeks.

Other activities conducted by Y-Peer in response to the pandemic include

  1. Social media campaign: The network is conducting a huge social media campaign to reach out to 500,000 through the different social media platforms. The aim of the campaign is to disseminate accurate information from the WHO about the infection methods and precautionary measures from the virus. The campaign has different activities such as hand washing challenge between the members of the network, thread of informative posts on FB, Twitter and Instagram in addition to stay at home FB frame and Whatsapp stickers. 

  2. YouthAgainstCovid: Y-Peer Egypt is participating in the global campaign pioneered by UNFPA to record videos with the messages from WHO and spread the correct information about the virus.

See more:

https://egypt.unfpa.org/en/node/47706

https://egypt.unfpa.org/en/video/peer-cast-episode-2

For more information contact covid19@unmgcy.org