| Name of Youth Empowerment Center, Youth Group, Youth Club or Youth-led Organization | Community for resilience support and wellbeing (CRSW-Kenya) |
|---|---|
| Email Address: | Email hidden; Javascript is required. |
| Phone | +254717702039 |
| Location (City or Town): | Juja |
| County | Kiambu |
| Team Leader: | Churchill Ouma |
| Innovation Title | Reflect power over status |
| Focus Area | Combating Gender-Based Violence (GBV) |
| Problem Statement: | Most cases reported and gathered from young gay, bisexual men and trans person usually are dominated with intimate partner violence. young persons dont report those cases due to fear of been judge, criticized or undermined for reporting their partners as the perpetrator. over the past years young persons age of 18-24 years who are living with HIV virus have follow as victims due to their status, inability to have power and knowledge, spiking the rate of violence. the need is not meet due to lack of better young safe friendly safes to address and have informed queer centered GBV interventions |
| Innovation Description: | engaging young persons as drivers for change will help combat the above problem and hence, improving the capacity on knowledge revolving around GBV is one the key factor to first help change through development of a hub program that will be working with young human right defenders, community paralegal and survivors of IPV as well GBV will help create an informed space to share skills, experience and action on gaps. the hub will involve podcast sessions for young queer stories, human rights educational week, mentorship workshops with law court users, interaction with community through monthly community services activities to help inform change and resilience among survivors and design young queer safe and security mechanism for young persons who are living with HIV virus. |
| Uniqueness and Innovation: | calling it a hub program is to have an open space and platform that will invite and encourage interaction to help boost well young person mechanism towards combating IPV among young persons. the podcast and community service will work as resources documented and archived for continuous learning and healing tools in future after the project ends. through mentorship the will be partnership and network creation for young persons to increase resilience. |
| Impact and Scalability: | through the development of safe and security mechanism it, together with engagement law court users it will create a space to enhance new collaborative efforts and dialogue for access to justice and stigma reduction around court spaces. |
| Implementation Plan: | conducting weekly podcast to help air stories and coping mechanism with IPV survivors and key community paralegals. 100,000 |
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