PROGRAMMES

Programmes & Objectives

OUR CORE PROGRAMS

      1. SGBV Support programs
      2. Access to Justice
      3. Capacity building and Skills Program
      4. Community Livelihoods program
      5. A Temporary Shelter for Survivors .
      6. Creating peaceful Co-existence
      7. Climate Change
      8. Mental health Services Awareness.

BROAD BASED OBJECTIVES

1. Establish support structures for survivors of SGBV to access mental health/psycho-social support, medical and justice services

Target:

  • Create weekly Mental Health awareness forums in Mathare
  • Conduct weekly Gender Champion and Women HRD Forums
  • Train 300 parents on parenting skills and good relationship with children
  • Establish a referral system/pathway  for survivors of SGBV victims in need of mental Establish 12 Violence Against Children school clubs within Mathare 
  • Establish 6 safe spaces for children and adolescents to play and interact
  • Create 6 support groups for survivors of SGBV
  • Health, psychosocial  and shelter support
  • Create mental health education in 15 schools.
  • Establish 1 safe house for survivors of   and domestic workers

 

 

2. Assist young mothers and women access economic and vocational skills opportunities

Target:

  • Improve management capacity of 12  voluntary saving and loan associations in Mathare
  • Train 100 women on entrepreneurship skills  in Mathare
  • Link 100 young women with secondary scholarship and vocational skills opportunities

3. Facilitate creation of safe spaces for community dialogue forums

Target:

  • Conduct monthly stakeholders meeting
  • Conduct monthly human rights awareness forums
  • Establish a resource centre for girls and women groups
  • Improved peaceful coexistence between different ethnic communities
  • Improved relationship between police, local leaders and community

 

 

4. Promote peace and cohesion in the community

Target:

  • Conduct monthly peace and cohesion meetings
  • Participate in activities in mapping out hotspots areas within mathare
  • Participate in quarter local administration chief baraza meetings
  • Conduct community weekly dialogue forums.
  • Organize monthly stakeholders meetings
  • Engagement meetings with youth groups and women groups

5. Create safe spaces for young girls and women working as domestic workers

Target:

  • Weekly Domestic Worker experience sharing forum
  • Weekly field visit to access working condition of domestic workers.
  • Create a movement for casual domestic workers
  • Conduct a baseline survey to establish current situation of domestic workers
  • Improved peaceful coexistence between different ethnic communities
  • Improved relationship between police, local leaders and community

 

Expected Outcome

Short Term

  • Increased awareness on prevention of SGBV
  • Improved access to mental health and psychosocial support and services
  • Improved knowledge and skills on how to prevent violence against children in schools and community
  • Improved networking between stakeholders addressing SGBV cases
  • Established strong support network for survivors of SGBV
  • Created safe space for children in and out of school to enjoy their rights
  • Improved organization capacity of VSLAs to manage finances, organization and  solve conflict
  • Increased participation of girls, teenage mothers and women in community initiatives
  • Young girls facilitated to access secondary school scholarship
  • Youth, teenage mother and women facilitated to access vocational skills opportunities
  • Reduced reported cased of violation experienced by domestic workers 
  • Increased awareness on human rights and ways of addressing violations.
  • Situation analysis conducted on the status of young girls and women working as domestic workers

 

Long Term

  • Improved environment sensitive to the needs of survivors of SGBV
  • Improved working condition of domestic workers
  • Established safe house for survivors of SGBV
  • Improved capacity of community to identify and report cases of human rights violations
  • Improved household income through membership of vibrant VSLAs  in the community
  • Improved relation between parents and children
  • Improved entrepreneurship capacity of teenage mothers and women to establish economic ventures
  • Improved community participation and voice in decision making processes 
  • Improved peaceful coexistence between different ethnic communities
  • Improved relationship between police, local leaders and community