Project Title:
Youth-led SRHR advocacy in Phalombe district
Youth-led SRHR advocacy in Phalombe district
Start Date: November 2023
End Date: October 2025
End Date: October 2025
Brief Description: Empower young people to actively and meaningfully advocate for quality and youth friendly SRHR in Phalombe
Project Title:
Nzotheka Project
Nzotheka Project
Start Date: January 2024
End Date: June 2024
End Date: June 2024
Brief Description: Empower young people to actively and meaningfully advocate for their rights while improving their participation in decision making, budgets and policy processes in Mulanje and Phalombe districts
Project Title:
Converting Waste into Energy
Converting Waste into Energy
Start Date: January 2023
End Date: February 2023
End Date: February 2023
Brief Description: Train 20 young people in briquettes making and business management
Project Title:
Reducing Intimate Partner Violence through Health Promotion
Reducing Intimate Partner Violence through Health Promotion
Start Date: July 2021
End Date: December 2021
End Date: December 2021
Brief Description: The project aims at fighting and ending the intimate partner violence that is high in Phalombe district. This will be done through community mobilization and capacity development of the community and the local structures inorder to ably fight the violence
Project Title:
Leveraging Positive Action towards Improved Youth Participation in Budget and Policy Processes in Phalombe district
Leveraging Positive Action towards Improved Youth Participation in Budget and Policy Processes in Phalombe district
Start Date: November 2020
End Date: June 2021
End Date: June 2021
Brief Description: The project enhances youth and citizen participation and engagement in budget and policy processes in Phalombe district. Key project outcome is improved public expenditure tracking skills among the youths and local governance structures
Project Title:
Improving Delivery and Access to HIV Services for young people living with HIV in Chiwalo and Jenala Phalombe district amidst COVID 19
Improving Delivery and Access to HIV Services for young people living with HIV in Chiwalo and Jenala Phalombe district amidst COVID 19
Start Date: October 1, 2020
End Date: September 30, 2021
End Date: September 30, 2021
Brief Description: The project supports health facilities, Network of Young People Living with HIV, and support groups maintain and evolve their critical services for people living with/at risk of HIV during the COVID-19 crisis. In Traditional Authorities Chiwalo and Jenala
Project Title:
Improving Delivery and Access to HIV Services for young people living with HIV in Phalombe district amidst COVID 19
Improving Delivery and Access to HIV Services for young people living with HIV in Phalombe district amidst COVID 19
Start Date: July 1, 2020
End Date: December 31, 2020
End Date: December 31, 2020
Brief Description: The project supports health facilities, Network of Young People Living with HIV, and support groups maintain and evolve their critical services for people living with/at risk of HIV during the COVID-19 crisis.
Project Title:
Strengthening provision of method mix and improving access to family Planning methods among Adolescent Girls and Young Women(AGYW) in Phalombe District
Strengthening provision of method mix and improving access to family Planning methods among Adolescent Girls and Young Women(AGYW) in Phalombe District
Start Date: July 2019
End Date: January 2021
End Date: January 2021
Brief Description: Increase access to youth friendly sexual and reproductive health services through the development of 100 young leaders as SRHR Youth Champions for advocacy and empowerment and Youth Community Based Distribution Agents – YCBDAs for supply distribution and demand generation
Project Title:
Leveraging Positive Action towards Reducing Violence Against Women and Girls in Phalombe District
Leveraging Positive Action towards Reducing Violence Against Women and Girls in Phalombe District
Start Date: October 1, 2019
End Date: September 30, 2021
End Date: September 30, 2021
Brief Description: End Gender Based Violence:
To raise awareness on issues of violence against women and girls with a focus on cultural norms, attitudes, services, policies, laws and prevalence in Phalombe, Malawi by 70% between 2019 and 2021
Improve SRHR Knowledge & Access: To improve SRHR service access by women and girls who experience violence and harmful practices use available, accessible, acceptable, and quality essential services including for long term recovery from violence from 49% to 70% by 2021
Improve SRHR Knowledge & Access: To improve SRHR service access by women and girls who experience violence and harmful practices use available, accessible, acceptable, and quality essential services including for long term recovery from violence from 49% to 70% by 2021
Project Title:
Enhancing the capacity of the AGYW in leadership and advocacy
Enhancing the capacity of the AGYW in leadership and advocacy
Start Date: 1/07/2018
End Date: 31/08/2018
End Date: 31/08/2018
Brief Description: As an organization we were successful to achieve project goal of empowering adolescent girls and young women to actively participate in decision making forums and to also hold duty bearers accountable in the implementation of youth friendly health services. 30 AGYW from youth networks in two traditional authorities were trained and we continue to mentor them in SRHR/YFHS leadership and advocacy As a result of the training,
AGYW and youths are increasingly being engaged in some activities in the district. The trainings have started yielding results of amplifying young people`s voice. The lessons learnt from the experience of implementing the capacity building training and mentorship will be applied in implementing this project with high prospects of making improvements on the delivery process as well as the outcomes of the proposed project through inclusive participation of young people in enhancing access to family planning methods by all girls and women.
AGYW and youths are increasingly being engaged in some activities in the district. The trainings have started yielding results of amplifying young people`s voice. The lessons learnt from the experience of implementing the capacity building training and mentorship will be applied in implementing this project with high prospects of making improvements on the delivery process as well as the outcomes of the proposed project through inclusive participation of young people in enhancing access to family planning methods by all girls and women.
Project Title:
Liwu Lathu – Increasing Young People`s Voice in Local Democratic Governance in Phalombe district
Liwu Lathu – Increasing Young People`s Voice in Local Democratic Governance in Phalombe district
Start Date: May 2016
End Date: July 2017
End Date: July 2017
Brief Description: The project aimed developing the capacity of young people and local governance structures for an inclusive and responsive local governance. The project conducted public expenditure tracking and community scorecard on CDF, DDF, LDF and SIG projects in Phalombe. It also helped to increase youth representation in VDCs and ADCs.
Project Title:
Action for the Youths and AGYW
Action for the Youths and AGYW
Start Date: January 2015
End Date: December 2020
End Date: December 2020
Brief Description: The project is aimed at improving youth friendly health services delivery and increasing uptake of Youth Friendly Health Services (YFHS) and Y Family Planning in the district. So far, the advocacy done has helped the improvement in service delivery in some of the health 4 facilities out of 14 facilities in the district. It is therefore in the success that have been recorded in this project that will apply the skills and knowledge in the implementation of the proposed project.
Project Title:
Action for Adolescents programme
Action for Adolescents programme
Start Date: 1/03/2016
End Date: 28/02/2018
End Date: 28/02/2018
Brief Description: Having championing the issues of Youth Friendly Health Services in Phalombe district. This is the program helping young people in the district access Youth Friendly Health Services and information. As an organization we strongly believe implementing the proposed project will not be a problem as structures the we established will be used during the implementation of this project to increase access to family planning methods amongst girls and young women.
Project Title:
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Advocacy
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Advocacy
Start Date: January 2015
End Date: July 2015
End Date: July 2015
Brief Description: This too is a project that aimed at championing improvements in delivery of Youth Friendly Health Services in Phalombe district. This project helped young people in the district to access improved Youth Friendly Health Services and information. As an organization we strongly believe implementing the proposed project will likely succeed building on the relationships that we have already established in the district with both government and non-governmental structures. Furthermore, the youth structures in the district are more organized and equipped with a diverse skills and knowledge which may be applicable in the implementation of the proposed project aimed at increasing access to family planning methods amongst girls and young women.