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Advocates for Youth and Health Development (AYHD) is a youth led non-governmental, non partisan, non-profit making organization for human rights promotion & protection and health development for adolescents and young people, women, children, key and vulnerable populations through capacity building, service delivery, advocacy and policy influencing.
AIMS & OBJECTIVES
1. Provide women, children, adolescents and young people, key and vulnerable populations with skills that are in demand in targeted communities in order to reduce poverty, human rights violations, prevent Gender Based Violence and ensure equality and improvements in their health;
2. Foster cultural understanding, religious tolerance, peace-building, conflict resolution and transformation that ensures the well-being of our beneficiaries;
3. Through advocacy targeting decision and policy makers at national and sub-national levels ensure that policies, laws and practices that will improve the Sexual and Reproductive Health and rights (with particular focus on HIV/AIDS) of our beneficiaries are formulated or implemented;
4. Build the capacity of our beneficiaries on advocacy and policy influencing strategies and work with them to engage with decision/policymakers on policy formulation and implementation. And ensure their active participation in decision making processes in a peaceful atmosphere;
5. To network with other NGOs with similar objectives at local and international levels.
