Dignified and Gainful Employment
Youth Horizons Kenya in partnership with her development partners aims at increasing dignified and gainful employment opportunities for the out of school youth 18 to 35 years in both formal/informal employment by building the capacity of youth in, vocational skills, work readiness, employability skills and further facilitate linkages to profitable markets, market infrastructure, youth friendly/affordable financial services, job/employment and enterprise development support.
Our key innovation in skilling is creation of mobile vocational skilling centers. To determine skills gaps, we conduct labor surveys after which youth are mobilized into training cohorts based on desired skills arising from identified gaps, local artisans are identified for specific required skills and trained in participatory training methodologies and youth engagement principles ,community structures are then identified and modified into fully equipped training centers where the youth are then taken through a 3 months hands on skilling conducted by local artisans and later a one month apprenticeship
Access to Government Services
Youth Horizons Kenya success is implementation of programs that are sustainable even after funding comes ends. We aim at increasing access to national and county governments services which are more sustainable, We conduct Gap analysis on policy implementation and build capacity of service providers to provide youth friendly services, empower youth to demand for services, conduct focused community advocacy drives/campaigns on access and utilization of Government services while ensuring safety of youth in their community and learning environments
Improved Sexual and Reproductive Health of Children
Youth Horizons Kenya aims at increasing access to Sexual Reproductive Health information and services for the youth through provision of age appropriate , integrated, and youth responsive SRH information and services that include; SRH information and services, Linkages to psychosocial support, Promoting conducive and Facilitating enrolment and retention of HIV positive children, youth and their caregivers into HIV care and walking them through the journey of Viral Load suppression, We facilitate attitude and norms change at personal and community level that in turn improves uptake of health services
The Girl Child Program
Youth Horizons has established a GIRL CHILD PROGRAM whose aim is to provide a permanent approach to addressing the many challenges faced by the girl child in our region. It has grown out of the recognition that the girl child is in many cases very vulnerable to unforeseen circumstances like the sudden death of their parents, lack of employment and also living in slum areas. The sad story is that girls are often being turned into sexual slaves by the men in the estates, while others run the risk of engaging in illicit sex if not well taken care of. Indeed our concern is based on the notion that they will not be able to exploit their full potential as a person due to all kinds of cultural practices and believes that still prevail in many parts of Kenya. Still many others are still being forced to undergo the FGM.
Youth Arts
Youth Horizon has designed Arts to give arts agencies, juvenile justice agencies, social service organizations, and other community-based organizations detailed information about how to plan, run, provide training, and evaluate arts programs for youth and those at risk. The impact of arts programs on adolescent behavior and the risk and protective factors associated with behavioral problems and delinquency. Youth Arts shows that arts programs really can have an impact on youth. Not only can such programs enhance young peoples' attitudes about themselves and their futures, but the programs also can increase academic achievement and decrease delinquent behavior. Arts Programmes helps in reduction of substance abuse, rehabilitations and offer education programmes.
Human Rights and Civil Society Strengthening
Youth Horizons runs the above program whose goal is to ensure that CSOs are strengthened to foster human rights, democratic governance, and empowerment of youth, whose outcomes are as follows:
• An engaged youth citizenry who exercise individual agency and collective action in defending and promoting human rights and democratic governance.
• Increased accountability of duty bearers in upholding human rights and democratic governance
• Ensure that the operating environment for civil society actors is safe, secure and strengthened
• Actively engaged Youth HRDs influencing a conducive legal and policy framework on human rights protection and democratic governance5.Enhanced capacity of Youth HRDs.
Anti-Corruption and Rule of Law
The purpose of this program is to reduce corruption through improved service delivery, Rule of Law and Culture of integrity to be achieved through the following objectives
• Youth and civic groups are organized and empowered for collective action in the fight against corruption
• Youth and civic groups influence a decrease in corruption at the point of delivery of public services.
• Youth and civic groups influence a decrease in corruption in public procurement
• Strengthened Rule of Law in the fight against corruption
• Civic groups influence a culture of integrity amongst duty bearers and youth.
• Enhanced Rule of Law, Judicial Accountability and independence
• Improved access to justice.