Projects
Youth-to-Youth Programme in Kenya
Target group: Adolescents aged 10-24 in Western Kenya, the Nairobi area, Eastern Kenya, Nyanza, Coast and Rift Valley province.
Project aims:
Progress made:
By the end of 2006 more than 172 active Youth-to-Youth clubs had been set up in the five regions of Kenya where DSW is operational: Western Kenya, the Nairobi area, Central Kenya, Nyanza, Coast and Rift Valley provinces. Over 100,000 youth have been reached directly through Youth-to-Youth counselling and trainings. Over 1.5 million young people have indirectly benefited from the Youth-to-Youth programme through community outreach and IEC materials.
New Y2Y-component: Mobile voluntary counselling and testing services (VCT’s)
More and more adolescents in Kenya are not only threatened by HIV, but suffer from AIDS. This is why DSW has begun exploring new ways to support youth: the mobile voluntary counselling and testing services (VCT’s). Three mobile „trucks“ are being developed and fully equipped to suit a youth friendly VCT service and will be operational within specific regions: Coastal, Nairobi/Central and Western/Nyanza in the near future.
Partners:
Embu Youth Aids Advocates, European Commission / Kenya, Division of Reproductive Health Ministry of Health, IRECHO, Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP), Kwetu training centre for sustainable development, Liverpool VTC Kenya, , Mama na Dada-Africa, Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA), Ministry of State for Youth Affairs and Sports (MOYAS), National Aids Control Council (NAAC), National Coordinating Agency for Population & Development (NCAPD), Nekeki NGO, Shangila Mtoto Wa Africa
Target group: Adolescents aged 10-24 in Western Kenya, the Nairobi area, Eastern Kenya, Nyanza, Coast and Rift Valley province.
Project aims:
- To improve the sexual and reproductive health status of young people in Kenya;
- To empower youth in clubs to provide replicable quality, effective and sustainable sexual and reproductive health information, education and services to adolescents and youth in order to change attitudes and behaviour towards healthy sexual life;
- To decrease the spread of HIV/AIDS;
- To reach adolescents directly through intensive counselling and indirectly through mass edutainment;
- To enhance the capacity of young people to initiate and sustain effective reproductive health (RH) youth clubs;
- To enhance managerial, technical and institutional capacity of youth serving non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to implement Youth to Youth Reproductive Health Initiatives;
- To produce and disseminate information, education and communication (IEC) materials on adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) and to facilitate ASRH club networks;
- To enhance adolescents reproductive health knowledge and skills of club members and young people outside the club;
- To increase access to high quality and affordable reproductive health (RH) services including voluntary HIV testing for young people;
- To create reproductive health (RH) supplementary services in the project area;
- To improve the environment for adolescent reproductive health (RH) activities in schools and local communities;
- To establish monitoring and evaluation mechanisms.
Progress made:
By the end of 2006 more than 172 active Youth-to-Youth clubs had been set up in the five regions of Kenya where DSW is operational: Western Kenya, the Nairobi area, Central Kenya, Nyanza, Coast and Rift Valley provinces. Over 100,000 youth have been reached directly through Youth-to-Youth counselling and trainings. Over 1.5 million young people have indirectly benefited from the Youth-to-Youth programme through community outreach and IEC materials.
New Y2Y-component: Mobile voluntary counselling and testing services (VCT’s)
More and more adolescents in Kenya are not only threatened by HIV, but suffer from AIDS. This is why DSW has begun exploring new ways to support youth: the mobile voluntary counselling and testing services (VCT’s). Three mobile „trucks“ are being developed and fully equipped to suit a youth friendly VCT service and will be operational within specific regions: Coastal, Nairobi/Central and Western/Nyanza in the near future.
Partners:
Embu Youth Aids Advocates, European Commission / Kenya, Division of Reproductive Health Ministry of Health, IRECHO, Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP), Kwetu training centre for sustainable development, Liverpool VTC Kenya, , Mama na Dada-Africa, Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA), Ministry of State for Youth Affairs and Sports (MOYAS), National Aids Control Council (NAAC), National Coordinating Agency for Population & Development (NCAPD), Nekeki NGO, Shangila Mtoto Wa Africa
Our special thanks for their most generous support of this programme go
to the European Commission (EC), Stiftung Evolutionfonds Apfelbaum, TUI AG, Hallbaum Bank, AWD-Stiftung Kinderhilfe, Adolf Würth GmbH & Co KG, Rotary Club Bad Salzuflen, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Daimler AG.
