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Disabilities Awareness Week

Sustainable Development Goals and YOUth

Children's Day: Key issues affecting our children in their communities

Poll to co-design a new youth skills service

Reimagine Education with NSSC and UNICEF (Results to PM Andrew Holness' Education Transformation Commission)

Distance learning (Ministry of Education, Youth & Information)

School suspensions poll (for National Secondary Students' Council)

Sexual health education in schools (HFLE) with JYAN

Action against violence in schools

#ENDviolence in Schools

Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes

Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health

Child Month: Mental health poll with Jamaica Observer

Poll: Advertising unhealthy foods to children (Conducted for Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network and Healthy Caribbean Coalition)

Poll on Government's School Nutrition Policy, conducted with JYAN

MOHW poll to name new mental health campaign

Attitudes to COVID-19 vaccines

Voting to name Mental Health Chatline

Mental health chatline name suggestions

Nutritional behaviours among Jamaican youth

Impact of COVID-19 on eating and exercise habits (conducted for UNICEF)

World AIDS Day Quiz with UNAIDS

COVID-19 regional poll 2: personal impact

COVID-19 regional poll 1: national response

CoronaVirus Information Centre

NFPB sexual and reproductive health

Suicide Prevention Bot – World Mental Health Day

Ministry of Health & Wellness Anxiety Test

HIV & sexual health

Adolescent and Youth Mental Health

Youth Mental Health and Suicide

Safer Internet Poll 2023 with Flow

Global cyberbullying poll

Social media influencers

U-Report Safer Internet Day contest with FLOW

Mental Health and Social Media

Safety & security

Corporal Punishment and Bullying

Child Month: Violence poll with Jamaica Observer

Spotlight Initiative - domestic abuse in COVID-19

Human Rights Day on December 10

Corporal Punishment (Office of the Children's Advocate)

Human trafficking

Volunteer for summer camps for children in ZOSO communities

Women's Day 2019

July 30 - World Day against Trafficking in People

Road Safety in Jamaica

Exploring the issue of crime in Jamaica

Youth Participation

Eyes Pon Di Budget Poll

FunDoo Feedback 2025

Youth Future Outlook Poll

Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Youth Action Summit Poll

Constitutional reform poll: Should Jamaica replace the king?

#YoungVoicesOfChange U-Report poll for EU-LAC Summit

World Children's Day 2021

Youth Participation

Eyes Pon Di Budget Poll

February 6, 2026

421

RESPONDERS

92%

RESPONSE RATE

26%

103

74%

287

budget

public finance

public financing for children

national budget

TOTAL RESPONDERS

1

Have you ever heard about Jamaica's national budget?

421 responded out of 459 polled

2

Do you think schools and youth groups should teach children and young people how the national budget works?

405 responded out of 421 polled

3

How important is it for the government to spend money on services for children and youth?

387 responded out of 405 polled

4

Should children and youth have a bigger say in how money is spent on public services for them?

380 responded out of 387 polled

5

If the government could spend more money on children and young people, which area do you think should be prioritised?

354 responded out of 380 polled

6

Would you like more opportunities to take part in decisions about how the government spends money on children and youth?

350 responded out of 354 polled

7

If you had the chance to decide how a portion of Jamaica's budget is spent, what would you fund first?

298 responded out of 350 polled

8

If you could ask the government to spend more money on ONE thing for young people, what would it be?

280 responded out of 298 polled

9

What do you think is the biggest issue with how the government currently spends money on services for children and youth?

243 responded out of 280 polled

10

What do you think would help more Jamaicans, especially youth, understand how the national budget affects them?

222 responded out of 243 polled

U-Matter: U-Report Mental Health Chatline launched

I am that happy person who also happens to have depression

Kyle Nunes: “My generation can support one another”

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