by dswen | Aug 25, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
East Africa’s population is young. 64 per cent of the population – an estimated 251 million people are below age 25. Life is not always easy for them. We asked Kennedy Mambo Chande, Y2Y (Youth to Youth) Coordinator at DSW, to tell us about the challenges and...
by Peter Ngure | Jul 29, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
Convening for the Financing for Development conference, in the middle of July leaders from all over the world were meeting here in Addis Ababa. There were many hot topics on the agenda; was about tax, illicit flow of money, gender and health financing, whether female...
by dswen | Jul 28, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
Funding Family Planning – DSW launches new budget studies for East Africa Since 2010, DSW and its Euroleverage partners have conducted policy and budget analyses to help improve budget allocation, policy implementation, and funding family planning (FP) services,...
by dswen | Jul 7, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
We would like to share with you some of the amazing successes we have had with this programme over the past year. DSW established the Youth-to-Youth Initiative (Y2Y) in 1999 to address the needs of young people aged 10 to 24 in East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya,...
by Andreia Oliveira | Jun 30, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
2015 is a special year for development, both outside and inside the EU. It is the first ever European Year to specifically target the EU’s external action and is then a great platform to foster citizens’ interest and knowledge on development policy and...