2025 ICFP Youth Trailblazer Award

Formerly known as the Youth Travel Award or Youth Leader Video Contest, the 2025 ICFP Youth Trailblazer Award aims to amplify and highlight the voices of young leaders (aged 18-35) in the global family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SHRH) field through active planning and participation in the 2025 ICFP conference.

Those who receive the 2025 ICFP Youth Trailblazer Award will be funded to attend ICFP 2025 in Bogotá, Colombia happening 3–6 November 2025. Awardees will also actively participate in planning activities for ICFP, have speaking roles at ICFP, and engage in other conference opportunities that raise the voices, perceptives, and experiences of youth in the global family planning community. You will receive an electronic certificate for your participation after the ICFP 2025 conference.

Examples of Trailblazer Roles

Throughout the planning and implementation of the latest ICFP, the Youth Trailblazers played a vital part in the success of the conference, taking on various roles, including (but not limited to):

• Session speakers
• Session moderators
• Opening ceremony speaker
• Youth Plenary organizers and speakers
• UHC Plenary speaker
• Phil Harvey Award winners
• Lunch with Leaders keynote speaker
• WHO ICFP Scientific Writing, Mentoring, & Coaching course facilitator
• Youth Lounge organizers
• ICFP LIVE Stage & FPNN management/support
• ICFP press/media support
• Power-shifting co-chair
• Youth Pre-conference session facilitators
• Youth Pre-conference hosts
• Roundtable organizers & facilitators
• Poster judges
• Bayer Symposium moderator

Eligibility Criteria

• To apply for the 2025 ICFP Youth Trailblazer Award, young leaders must:
  • Be between the ages of 18-35 on 1 November 2025.
  • Submit an online application. Young leaders may only submit one application. Team applications are not permitted.
  • Upload a 3-minute maximum video to YouTube or Vimeo about their work and the impact they would make at ICFP 2025.
  • Provide the name and contact information of 1-2 references who can speak to the applicant’s qualifications as a speaker at the conference (e.g. a mentor, teacher, or supervisor from an organization that they have volunteered for or worked with in the past).

For more information, visit International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP).