CSA understands that International instruments such as commitments made by different countries play a critical role in influencing national policies and programming. Through it’s years of existence, CSA has participated actively in National, regional and international advocacy processes by ensuring that the voices and the will of young people and other underserved communities are well represented in spaces where. At the Global and regional space CSA has engaged in different processes such as; International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), Convention on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York, Global Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Advocacy, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit, the Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) review, Beijing +25 process, The East and Southern Africa commitments on CSE review, the East Africa Community SRHR Bill etc.

                     At the National level, CSA’s advocacy efforts aim at creating an enabling policy and legislative environment for the realization of rights to access information and services by young people across the country. In 2003, CSA spearheaded the development of the first-ever Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development (ARHD 2003) Policy and later provided technical support in the review of the National Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health (ASRH) 2015 Policy.