Our Programs

Establishing and strengthening community-based ECD centres.
Supporting capacity building of caregivers and ECD centre management committees.
Facilitating the production of learning and playing materials using locally available resources
Conducting awareness campaigns for community structures on the importance of ECD services
Constructing ECD centres to improve the learning environment
Providing life talks and pass-on knowledge to caregivers
Conducting advocacy to the government to improve ECD support and management
Promoting growth monitoring in ECD centres
Promoting feeding programs in ECD centres
Promoting linkages between ECD centres and primary schools
Promoting innovations in ECD centres such as Special Needs Action Pack, Interactive Radio Instruction, Emergent Learning and Maths, Healing and Education through Arts, and Parenting programs

Construction of primary and secondary schools.
Promoting the creation and enforcement of community bylaws to improve enrolment, attendance in schools, and reduce early marriages and pregnancies
Providing school bursaries (fees and school supplies) to needy students in primary and secondary schools
Promoting adult literacy learning
Conducting mentorship and coaching of primary school teachers to improve school outcomes
Providing bicycle support to mitigate distances to primary and secondary schools, especially for the girl child
Promoting quiz competitions in schools
Providing incentives to motivate teachers to improve teaching performance

Conducting community awareness campaigns on child rights and child protection
Strengthening the capacity of community structures such as Child Protection Committees, Case Managers, VDCs, SMCs, MGs, and Churches on reporting cases of child abuse
Conducting referral and rehabilitation services for abused children
Establishing child protection committees
Establishing survival care systems for abused children
Mobilizing children’s core group structures both in and out of school to empower them on child protection
Facilitating the modification of harmful cultural practices
Facilitating the establishment of male champions as protectors of children and women from GBV

Conducting training on entrepreneurship and financial literacy for the youth to engage in self-employment
Training youths in vocational skills such as tailoring, carpentry, brick laying and phone repairing
Training women in tailoring
Establishment, strengthening and capacity of Village savings and loan association to women and youths.
Establishing and facilitating linkages between youth and vocational education skills training, including TEVETA
Facilitating the formation of youth business cooperatives mainstreamed with IEC on issues affecting them such as substance abuse and harmful social behaviours
Providing soft loans to youth to support business start-up and growth
Supporting women and youth with livestock Pass-on Schemes to enhance livelihoods
Supporting women and youth with start-up farm inputs
Facilitating Village Savings and Loan Associations to promote a savings and investment culture
Supporting women and youth with irrigation-based value chain development services to adopt commercial agriculture
Linking women and youth cooperatives to existing financial lending schemes such as AgCOM, MAIIC, NEEF, and SMEDI to support business start-up and growth

Promoting food production activities including crops, livestock, aquaculture, and apiculture to improve access to food
Promoting nutrition awareness and social behaviour change among communities
Building the capacity of staff, care groups, CBCC management committees, VNCCs, and ANCCs in food and nutrition security
Building the capacity of communities in food processing, utilization, and diversification
Promoting exclusive breastfeeding among mothers

Providing youth-friendly health services such as SRH awareness, training, technologies, and contraceptives
Supporting youth with life skills and peer education
Facilitating the establishment of youth and teen clubs to enhance peer support
Promoting sports for health to nurture talent and increase access to SRH services
Promoting menstrual hygiene management for girls
Conducting group therapy sessions for youth living with HIV
Facilitating the formation and strengthening of Health and Sanitation Committees in schools, villages, and local markets
Supporting the construction of two health centres in the project impact areas
Promoting maternal health services
Promoting early diagnosis and awareness of malaria, bilharzia, and TB
Providing referrals and assistive devices to children with disabilities
Conducting awareness campaigns to address misconceptions around health issues such as cholera, vaccines, and pandemics
Promoting WASH services in schools, markets, villages, and religious institutions

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Youth for Development and Productivity(YODEP)