Joshua Dilawar
- Award:Most Active Volunteer AwardAwarding Organization:UNDP-PakistanDate Awarded:August 12, 2015
- Award:Youth Excellence AwardAwarding Organization:Sughran Health and Education Development OrganizationDate Awarded:June 2, 2016

I’m a young SRHR and Family Planning Advocate. I’ve been able to bring innovations into social, behavior and economic change through performing arts (Theater). Theater is a great medium to disseminate such awareness among the audience even at grassroots level. It plays an important role in bringing change in behaviors and practices of people. I’ve been performing theater since 2012 to spread awareness regarding FP, SRHR, HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness against early age marriages and violence against women among the youth of different institutes and under-privileged areas. This includes a campaign “Youth Coalition for Family Planning and SRHR” to advocate FP and SRHR through theater which is an entertainment-education medium for long-lasting impact. I contributed at ICAAP12.
In Pakistan, majority of the women particularly young girls are far away from the proper knowledge of SRHR and FP. Incidents of abortion are 50-60/1000 women or 2.10-2.30 million abortions in a year. According to CIA World Factbook (Infant mortality rate: male: 57 deaths/1,000 live births, female: 50.6 deaths/1,000 live births. I passion rooted in my past as I lost one of my dear friend just because of the no SRH access and knowledge. Therefore, I started working to advocate SRHR and FP.
I initiated 2 campaigns e.g.“Theater to Eliminate HIV/AIDS” & “Be a Social Change” to spread awareness regarding the prevention of HIV/AIDS, SRHR and FP. I’m actively working with International youth Alliance for Family Planning, AWID, Amnesty International and International Youth Activists Network (iYAN) to spread awareness on SRHR, HIV/AIDS prevention and FP. I founded Institute for Social and youth Development to engage youth to be active members and change agents.
I will be establishing and strengthening Youth Coalition for Family Planning and SRHR. I want to grow Youth Coalition for Family Planning and SRHR at National and International level to engage young people to breakdown the stereotypes and to exchange, share their ideas, issues and efforts to advocate for SRHR and FP. I will be advocating through performing arts (Theater performances) and awareness seminars to spread proper SRHR and FP education and to prepare young activists for FP in Pakistan.