Partners
The existence of the Youth Alive! Kenya as an organisation and the effective realisation of our objectives has been through taking stock of existing projects working on a similar vision to share experiences and transfer skills. This has been possible by forging partnerships with other players directly or indirectly working with young people. Since there are others with a similar vision, we are always committed to partnering with them with similar work in as far as our objectives permit. Our past and present networks and partners who have continued to place us strategically to effectively develop and implement our projects include:
Funding & Technical Partners
* The British Council Kenya
* The Finnish NGO Foundation for Human Rights (KIOS)
* National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
* UNDP Kenya/Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva
* Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF)
* Safaricom Foundation
* Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
* VSO Jitolee (East African Volunteering)
* ActionAid International Kenya
* GOAL Ireland Kenya
* Africa Youth Trust (AYT)
* Ministry of Gender, Social Services & Children Affairs – Department of Children Services
* Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports
* The National AIDS Control Council of Kenya
Implementing CSO Partners
* Kenya Disabled Action Network (KEDAN)
* CIANET
* Vijana Pamoja
* KISH Group
* Upperhill Youth Group
* Kisumu Youth Network
* Maji Mazuri Mathare
* Pamoja Youth Foundation
* Action for Life – Kibera
* Urban Slums Peace Network (USPEN)
* Young Widows Advancement Programme
* Kamukunji Human Rights Defenders Group
* TEMBEA Youth For Sustainable Development
Implementing Institutions
* Nairobi Children’s Remand Home,
* Getathuru Reception & Discharge Centre,
* Dagoretti Girls Rehabilitation School,
* Kabete Boys Rehabilitation School,
* Ofafa Jericho Secondary School,
* Shimo La Tewa Borstal, Mombasa
* Shikisa Borstal, Kakamega
* Nile Road Girls secondary School,
* Langata High School
* Kamukunji Secondary School
* Kibera Glory Secondary School
YAK-KIOS Partnership Programme
Youth Alive! Kenya and KIOS (The Finnish Foundation for Human Rights) rolled out a partnership programme in July 2008 that aims to identify and support community based human rights groups to harness their full potential and become key human rights actors in their region and ultimately nationally. The central aspects of the programme are networking the participating groups with each other and with other relevant institutions in the country (whether governmental or non-governmental), and providing individualised training and mentoring on issues that will be identified together with the participating groups.
The pilot groups to be chosen in this programme are community based groups that have shown unique commitment to advancing human rights in their communities and who have capacity and drive to become significant human rights advocates in a wider context. The partnership programme has just concluded its pilot year successfully engaging eight (8) groups from across Kenya.
The partnership programme is currently on second year of implementation and has just concluded selection of eight (8) community-based human rights organizations to be involved in the 2009-2010 programme year. The idea of this new programme is to get more involved in the grassroots work and share the knowledge accumulated by both YAK community partners and KIOS funded projects over the years. Besides supporting smaller human rights actors the idea is to also enhance networking between all KIOS project partners in Kenya while allowing Youth Alive! Kenya to strengthen its youth-serving partners.
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Read more about KIOS on their website - www.kios.fi
