Objectives of the Programme

1. To encourage participation of the youth in leadership.
2. To conduct capacity building and training (CBT) of the youth.
3. To promote Socio economic empowerment of the youth through provision of information and knowledge.

Description of the Programme

This is a programme that deals with all the concerns of the youth and offers them knowledge to gain the ability and authority to make decisions and implement change in their own lives. This is done through channels like workshops and seminars to empower the youth.

The project also seeks to give the youth exposure, networking skills and best practices. The main interventions are to provide youth with a foundation necessary to develop sustainable long-term youth projects, encourage development of skills and self-reliance and to increase youth accessibility to information and knowledge.

Activities

1. CV writing skills
2. Interview skills
3. Communication skills
4. Career choices
5. Capacity building courses:
6. Identification of Academic Research and Projects
7. Development of Research Projects
8. Training on Research and Surveys
9. Reports Writing Skills Training
10. Proposal Development Training
11. Entrepreneurship Training
12. Peer Education Training
13. Child Delinquency Training
14. Career Clinic (Job Search and Interview Skills Training)
15. Life Skills Training
16. Personal Image Training
17. Team Building Skills
18. Management Skills
19. Negotiation Skills
20. Communication Skills
21. Organizational Development Training
22. Cultural Practices Education
23. Community/Social Mobilization Skills
24. Resource Mobilization Skills
25. Public Speaking Skills
26. Partnership Development Training
27. Peace Building and Conflict Resolution Training
28. Modeling and Casting
29. Mentoring and Role Modeling Training
30. Group Formation Skills
31. Counseling Skills
32. Monitoring and Evaluation
33. Leadership Training
34. Child Psychology and Development Training
35. Mapping and Data Analysis
36. Geographic Information System (GIS) Training
37. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Training
38. Balanced Score Card Training
39. Project Implementation Training
40. Policy Lobbying and Advocacy
41. Project Management Cycle
42. Gender Development and Mainstreaming
43. Personal Capacity Assessment and Evaluation
44. Career Development Training
45. Drug and Substance Abuse Prevention and Training
46. Disaster Prevention Management Training
47. Home Based Care Training
48. Corporate /Organization Governance Training
49. Public Relations Skills

Scholarships Assistance -Entails sharing information on

1. Bursary
2. Fellowships and
3. Educational finance support sources.

Employment support

Includes placement programmes for College and University students in various organziations and agencies as part of their official attachment for them to apply their academic knowledge and skills. The College and University Graduates are offerred an opportunity to serve their communities in various areas of their skills by being placed in several organizations, companies and government agencies. Also relevenat job opportunities are shared. This activity covers:

1. Attachments
2. Internships
3. Volunteering
4. Job placement

Talent Development Support

The youth are involved in identifying their talents and gifts and focusing on them to build their future in sports, arts, culture and entertainment.

1. Performing Arts Support (e.g. play, skits, poems, music, dancing, modeling, beauty contests)
2. Visuals Arts Development (e.g. photography, drawing, printing, design, movie, crafts, beading, sculpture, jewellery making, video and film making, etc)
3. Sports (e.g. games, football, volleyball etc).
4. Talent development training

Other Activities

1. Mentorship, Coaching and Leadership Support - Covers social and cultural areas of leadership lifeskills, policy debates, leadership and academic topics.
2. Formation, management and leadership of youth groups
3. Participation at elective positions
4. Inclusion and representation at government and community committees.
5. Behavior change communication (BCC)
6. Delinquency transformation
7. Nutrition training
8. Decision making skills
9. Family planning talks
10. HIV/AIDS awareness
11. Sexual reproductive health (SRH)
12. Life skills awareness
13. Peer education training
14. Drug and substance abuse awareness
15. Gender awareness
16. Environmental education
17. Goals setting training
18. Peace building and conflict management training
19. Leadership training
20. Health education
21. Motivational talks
22. Public speaking training
23. Self awareness
24. Talent development training
25. Discipline training etc

Social Exchange Forums

These sincludes seminars, conferences, trainings, exchange trips and tours etc aimed at sharing information, training, charity work,  tours, academic and  recreation purposes. They include:

1. Trips
2. Game parks tours
3. Debates
4. Clean ups
5. Academic tours
6. Youth cutural tours
7. Picnics
8. Entertainment contests
9. Partying
10. Outings
11. Hikes
12. Charity walks and visits etc

Achievements of the Programme

1. Educated the youth about the National Youth Council (NYC) formation and elections, 4 forums were held reaching to over 1,000 youths and 14 youth leaders were elected in Machakos and Makueni counties.
2. Peer Education has been done to over 2,000 youths in Machakos and Makueni Counties.
3. Shabaa programme whose aim is to bring together youth and young leaders in promoting value based leadership and peaceful coexistence has been conducted in 10 secondary schools in Machakos County. 2 youth leaders from the county were involved in the programme.
4. One career seminar was conducted in 2009 and another one in 2015.
5. 8 youth resource centers were established for youth to access information and positive recreation at Machakos and Makueni counties with support from the Global Fund on HIV.
6. Organized the international youth day celebrations in conjunction with the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MOYAS).
7. Organized a beauty contest during the world environment day on the 5th of June 2012 at Machakos district with support from APHIA Plus Kamili.
8. Organized Machakos County Career Day 2015 at Machakos University College (MUC) on 17/11/2015
9. Over 50 Secondary Schools, Colleges and Universities were done life skills courses.
10. Conducted several youth career seminars including AIC Manza, AIC Maiuni and AIC Mungala, AIC Katoloni Compassion Kenya.

Partners

1. Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF)
2. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MOYAS)
3. APHIA Plus Kamili
4. Ministry of Devolution and Planning
5. Care Kenya
6. I Choose Life Africa (ICL-A)
7. Universities (5)