OUR FOCUS
Our Strategic Focus Areas
OAY works for and with young people with a main objective to promote Meaningful Adolescent and Youth Engagement (MAYE); we strive to unify the Voices of young people in Kenya and beyond by working with and strengthening youth coalitions and movements.
To realize its mission, OAY work in three core areas:
Health and Wellbeing
We believe in improved access to quality and responsive Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (AYSRH), Mental Health (MH) and Nutrition and food systems; and information among young people especially those marginalized and vulnerable adolescents and youth.
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Socio-Economic Empowerment
To improve household incomes and ability of young people to meet their economic and employment needs through skilling, agency, and leadership, access to income generation and business training opportunities in the effort to ensure total human development. Efforts are made to ensure that youth have access to decent jobs as enshrined in the SDG 8, particular focus will be on vulnerable adolescent girls and young women.
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Environment and Climate Change
To influence the adoption of sustainable environmental practices, conservation of natural resources, and the preservation of biodiversity in order to minimize environmental impact. OAY strives to promote youth centric environmental sustainable practices among communities in Kenya. We advocate for the use of renewable energy sources, proper waste managements and environmental conservation practices and initiatives.
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Complimentary Programming Areas
Toward ensuring that the 3 above programming areas are all-inclusive, meaningfully
representative and issue/context oriented, OAY deliberately and uniquely integrates and mainstreams the following four core-concepts;
Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI)
Equality and Equity in access to services and opportunities especially for the most marginalised.
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Leadership and Interpersonal Skills Development
Young people's growth and development to engage, influence and positively impact the society.
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Governance, Democracy and Civic Engagement
Innovations and actions by young people to influence policy, civic and democratic processes, decision and policy makers and promote accountability.
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Youth Peace and Security (YPS)
YPS in Practice: Engaging Youth and Communities for Conflict Prevention, Resolution, and Peace building.
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