The Provincial Coordinating Committees (PCC)

Each LCC chairperson and another LCC member of the opposite sex to the chairperson seconded by the LCC shall sit in the Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC). As such, the PCC does not have a fixed number but shall be constituted of the total number of local chapters in the province. The PCC members will have a leadership structure like the LCCs with similar responsibilities but at the provincial level. The SAYWHAT PCCs facilitate joint planning between colleges and link college level activities with the national consensus and trends within SAYWHAT and, broadly, the reproductive health.

The National Coordinating Committee (NCC)

In every meeting of the PCC preceding the national AGM, the PCC must elect two representatives, reflecting a gender balance, to the NCC.  The provinces shall send 12 representatives to the AGM (two per province), where they shall be confirmed as members of the NCC. The AGM constituted by all the SAYWHAT local chapters/colleges shall elect from among these 12 the NCC Chairperson, his/her Vice, and the Treasurer. The remaining provincial representatives shall take up the following posts by appointment from the NCC Chairperson – Gender Secretary, Organizing Secretary, HIV and SRHR Secretary, Information and Publicity Secretary, Membership Secretary, Program Planning and M&E Secretary, and 3 committee members etc.,

The NCC provide the students with a voice in planning and determining the course of SAYWHAT programmes ensuring that the students participate meaningfully in the affairs of SAYWHAT. The NCC, on behalf of the students and to the extent possible, participates in the entire program cycle of SAYWHAT. NCC is also represented in the SAYWHAT Advisory Board – 3 students namely the sitting NCC Chairperson, Treasurer and the immediate past chairperson. These students strengthen the voice of young people the governance of SAYWHAT at that level.