Early Childhood Development (ECD)
- 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
Quality Basic Education Services
- 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
Child Protection
- 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
Women and Youth Economic Empowerment
- 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
Food and Nutrition Security
- 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
Health Programs
- 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
Disaster Risk & Natural Resources Management
- Developing a Disaster Risk Management Action Plan to guide DRM response
- Increasing awareness on climate-smart agriculture practices and DRM
- Promoting agroforestry activities
- Promoting afforestation and reforestation activities for carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation
- Promoting forest-based enterprises as a means of climate change adaptation
- Building the capacity of village-based natural resources committees on climate-smart agriculture
- Building the capacity of district and community structures in early warning systems, response, and recovery
- Strengthening the provision of psychosocial support to those affected by disasters
- Promoting humanitarian response initiatives to mitigate disaster effects
- Providing food assistance to families affected by disaster
- Providing farm input assistance to families affected by disasters
Governance and Social Accountability
- Facilitating interface meetings between duty bearers and communities
- Conducting budget tracking for the District Council, including CDF, DDF, and School Improvement Grants
- Raising awareness on corruption among community structures and members
