Early Childhood Development (ECD)
- 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
Food and Nutrition Security
- 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
Child Protection
- 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
Women and Youth Economic Empowerment
- 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
Health Programmes
- 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
Disaster Risk & Natural Resources Management
- 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
Governance and Social Accountability
- Facilitate interface meetings between duty bearers and communities
- Conduct budget tracking for the District Council including CDF, DDF, School Improvement Grant
- Develop awareness on corruption among community structures and community members
Quality Basic Education Services
- Facilitate construction of primary and secondary schools
- Promote girl child education
- Promote creation and enforcement of community bylaws to improve enrolment, attendance in schools, reduce early marriages and pregnancies
- Provide school bursary (fees and school supplies) to needy students in primary and secondary schools
- Promote adult literacy learning
- Conduct mentorship and coaching of primary school teachers to improve school outcomes
- Provide bicycle support to mitigate distances to primary and secondary schools especially for the girl child
- Promote quiz competitions in schools
- Provide incentives to motivate teachers to improve teaching performance
