Our Programs

Establish and strengthen community based ECD centres
Support capacity building of care givers and ECD centre management committees
Facilitate production of learning and playing materials using locally available resources
Conduct awareness of community structures on importance ECD services
Construct ECD centres to improve the learning environment
Develop incentives for ECD care givers
Conduct advocacy to government to improve ECD support and management
Promote growth monitoring in ECD centres
Promote feeding programmes in ECD centres
Promote linkages between ECD centres and primary schools
Promote innovations in ECD centres such as Special Needs Action Pack, Interactive Radio Instruction, Emergent Learning and Maths, Healing and Education through Arts, Parenting

Promote food production activities including crops, livestock, aquaculture, and apiculture to improved access to food
Promote nutrition awareness and social behaviour change among communities
Capacity building in food and nutrition security for staff, care groups, CBCC management committees, VNCCs, and ANCCs
Build the capacity of communities in food processing, utilization and diversification
Promote exclusive breast feeding among mothers

Conduct community awareness on child rights and child protection
Strengthen the capacity of community structures such as Child Protection Committees, Case Managers, VDCs, SMCs, MGs, Churches on reporting cases of child abuse
Conduct referral and rehabilitation of abused children
Establish child protection committees
Establish survival care system for abused children
Mobilise children core group structures both in and out of school to capacitate the children on child protection
Facilitate the modification of harmful cultural practices
Facilitate establishment of male champions as protectors of children and women from GBV

Conduct training on entrepreneurship and financial literacy for the youth to engage in self-employment
Establish and facilitate linkage of the youth to vocational education skills training and machinery including TEVETA
Facilitate formation of Youth business cooperatives mainstreamed with IEC on issues affecting them such as dangers of substance abuse and harmful social behaviours
Provide soft loans to youth to support business start-up and growth
Support women and the youth with livestock Pass on Schemes to enhance livelihoods
Support women and the youth with start-up farm inputs
Facilitate Village and Loan Associations to promote savings and investment culture
Support women and the youth with irrigation-based value chain development services to adopt commercial agriculture
Link women and youth cooperatives to existing financial lending schemes such as AgCOM, MAIIC, NEEF, SMEDI, etc to support business start-up and growth

Provide youth friendly health services such as SRH awareness, training, technologies, and contraceptives
Support the youth with life skills and peer education
Facilitate establishment of youth and teen clubs to enhance peer support
Promote sports for health to promote talent and access to SRH services
Promote menstrual hygiene management for girls
Conduct group therapy sessions for youth living with HIV
Facilitate formation and strengthening of Health and Sanitation Committees in Schools, Villages, and local Markets
Support construction of 2 health centres in the project impact areas
Promote maternal health services
Promote early diagnosis and awareness of malaria, bilharzia and TB
Provide referral and assistive devices to children with disabilities
Conduct awareness to address misconceptions around health issues such as cholera, vaccines, pandemics, etc
Promote WASH services in schools, markets, villages, religious institutions

Develop a Disaster Risk Management Action Plan to guide DRM response
Increase awareness on climate smart agriculture practices and DRM
Promote agroforestry activities
Promote afforestation and reforestation activities for carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation
Promote forest-based enterprises as a means to climate change adaptation
Build capacity of village based natural resources committees on climate smart agriculture
Build the capacity of district and community structures in early warning systems, response and recovery
Strengthen provision of psychosocial support to those affected by disasters
Promote humanitarian response to mitigate disaster effects

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Youth for Development and Productivity(YODEP)