Gender & Youth Empowerment
Promoting gender equality and equity, nurturing youth potential, and building mentally healthy communities across Nairobi and Kiambu Counties — through inclusivity, advocacy, and transformative capacity building.
Inclusivity at the heart of change
The Gender & Youth Empowerment Program promotes gender equality and equity among communities within Nairobi and Kiambu Counties. The Program recognises inclusivity as a key aspect and advances it through gender mainstreaming, advocacy, and capacity building.
This includes creating awareness, sensitisation campaigns, lobbying, networking, and linkages — addressing the interconnected challenges of gender inequality, youth vulnerability, and mental health across communities.
"Inclusivity at the heart of every intervention — advanced through gender mainstreaming, advocacy, and capacity building."
Key Challenges
Three interconnected challenges that the programme responds to across Nairobi and Kiambu communities.
Gender Inequality
Gender inequality manifests across communities in various forms — higher poverty and unemployment rates among men and women, and increasing cases of gender-based violence and child abuse within families and charitable centres.
Youth Challenges
Youth form the largest population in the ADN communities yet face high unemployment, drug and substance abuse, irresponsible sexual behaviours exposing them to HIV/AIDS, and rising teenage pregnancies.
Mental Health Crisis
Increasing cases of mental illness reflect a broader global trend. Urbanisation stress, socioeconomic factors, stigma, trauma, and substance abuse all contribute to high rates of crime, radicalisation, suicides, and early pregnancies.
Four Programmes, one vision
Four complementary interventions reaching women, men, boys, and youth across Nairobi and Kiambu Counties.
PROMIC
Program for Women of Low Income Status Promoting Entrepreneurship
PROMIC promotes entrepreneurship among women of low income status, equipping them with the financial literacy, business skills, and peer networks they need to build sustainable livelihoods and break cycles of poverty.
ACMA - SDP
Engaging Men Through Positive Masculinity & Fatherhood
This programme engages men as positive change agents in their families and communities — promoting positive masculinity, responsible fatherhood, and men's active role in ending gender-based violence.
Beacon Boys Program
A Mentorship Program Under Catholic Men Association
The Beacon Boys Program provides structured mentorship for the boy child, guided by the Catholic Men Association. It shapes character, instils values, and builds the confidence and direction that young boys need to grow into responsible men.
Youth Program
Addressing All Issues Affecting Youth in Nairobi & Kiambu
A comprehensive programme addressing the multifaceted challenges facing youth — from unemployment and substance abuse to sexual health and financial independence — in collaboration with banks, self-help groups, and the Youth Enterprise Development Fund.
Akili Afya
The Akili Afya project raises awareness of mental health issues and supports access to mental health information and services. We work with the Ministry of Health and a network of partners across Nairobi and Kiambu to bridge the gap between communities and quality mental health care.
Increasing cases of mental illness are deeply connected to urbanisation stress, socioeconomic pressures, stigma, trauma, and substance abuse — and are reflected in rising rates of crime, radicalisation, and suicide. Akili Afya addresses this at the community level.
Toll-free helpline for victims of Gender-Based Violence
Working with a network of trusted institutions
For youth programmes, we collaborate with the Youth Enterprise Development Fund, banks, and self-help groups to deliver financial literacy, entrepreneurship support, and market linkages.
