DSW envisions a world where all youth – especially girls and young women – live free from disease and make independent and informed choices over their sexual and reproductive lives with full access to sexuality education, health services and modern contraceptives.
We do this by advocating with policy makers for investment in domestic resources and policies for youth-friendly SRHR, through multisectoral approaches.
Through the DSW Youth Empowerment Strategic Approach (YESA), and the Young Adolescent Empowerment Strategy (YAES), we work with young people to raise their awareness on sexual reproductive health and rights, gender equality and access to modern contraceptives and to strengthen their livelihoods.
The DSW lifeyangu.com online platform provides access to accurate, reliable SRHR information to young people, and connects them to health facilities.
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DSW Kenya’s activity clusters include:
- Cluster 1:
Build youth ‘s awareness and demand for SRHR through age-appropriate and gender-sensitive sexuality education and training.
- Cluster 2
Provide youth with modern contraceptives in their communities, in youth centres and youth empowerment centres.
- Cluster 3
Strengthen girls’ rights, advance gender equality as an enabler for SRGR and eliminate harmful practices.
- Cluster 4
Advance youth economic empowerment through work opportunities for SRHR.
- Cluster 5
Strengthen capacity of youth organisations to be active in SRHR
- Cluster 7
Advocate for increased, more effective investments in global health with special focus on youth and adolescent SRHR.
“We must continue to ensure the needs of the youth are adequately considered in county and national development plans. After all, they are the single-largest demographic group in Kenya (34% are aged 10-24 years old)”
Evelyn Samba, Country Director DSW Kenya
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Contact us
Hatheru Court | Hatheru Road (Lavington) | Nairobi
P.O. Box 2438-00202 Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254 736 616491
Email: info@dswkenya.org
