PRODEVIOW

PRODEVIOW is committed to ensuring that high number of refugee girls and young women attend school both formal and non-formal so that they may respond to and recover from economic hardship, acts of violence, challenges to their communities and enhance their resilience and livelihoods. Conducting trainings on tailoring and Hair-dressing for the identified vulnerable girls/young women meetings and awareness campaigns to community members. Support the beneficiaries with Scholastic materials, tailoring and Hair-dressing start-up kits. It will be expected that the trained group will train 30 people each and continuously for the project sustainability.  Community leaders, Youth and Religious leaders will take ahead of training community members on promoting girls and young women both formal and informal learning and use the knowledge and skills acquired from the project to the coming generation. After mitigating bad practices of culture, the project will construct a society where girls’ education is considered and valued. 

PRODEVIOW intends to address social issues; to scale down the identified dropouts of the vulnerable refugee girls and young women. With this approach, PRODEVIOW involve all orientations of society, environment, responsibility and economy. With this, the beneficiaries may live independently and develop successful lives. 56,947 are affected by this challenge.

Factors include socio-economic, socio-cultural, educational and acts of violence to their communities leading to high rate of school dropouts, lack of scholastic materials, start-up kits supports,  poor education, survival sex, unintended pregnancies, teenage pregnancies, domestic violence,  HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Infections, inadequate skills, sources of incomes and job opportunities are very limited.

Globally speaking, the implementation of this project will enable beneficiaries to become more creative, critical and logical thinking and educated refugee communities. Moreover, this project will play a very significant role of contributing from lower to high local economy. As per UNHCHR November 2019 statistics, Kakuma refugee camp hosts 193,429 (90,719 female, 102,710 male) out of which 75,165 are school going aged girls and young women. Out of this 75,165 only 18,409 are schooling.

Goal: Enhance Conducive Learning for marginalized girls and Young women and promote sustainable Livelihoods.

Program for Defying Violence against Women (PRODEVIOW) is a grassroots Community-Based non-profit Organization established in Kakuma Refugee camp, on 1/11/2012. The organization was legally registered by Kenyan Government on 23/1/2017. The project works on violence against Children, girls and Women's rights (socio-cultural, socio-economic and educational rights). Our interventions are Gender Based Violence Prevention, Livelihoods and Education. Our activities include GBV prevention awareness campaign, Poultry production and management, kitchen gardening/agriculture and Basic skills in Business management, Tailoring, Hair dressing and Numeracy and Literacy in English language learning.

Our beneficiaries are children, girls, young women, teenage mothers, GBV survivors. Age rank is from 6 to 35 years old. Beneficiaries are selected based on their interests and needs, regardless of nationality, reliefs, customs, norms and education background.

PRODEVIOW has skilled volunteer workers who deliver their services. The project runs activities, despite of lack of both financial and in-kinds supports. Your grant of $ 9,800 will play a very significant role of introducing, expanding and growing our organization.

Thank you for undertaking. PRODEVIOW looks forward to a prospect of partnering with SOLVE MIT. The project appreciates your compassion and services delivered to community projects, especially those led by the refugees. By Ilambo Msebengwa Ebunga.

The solution serves the identified most vulnerable school-going girls, (from 12-17 years old) who are at risk of dropping out and young women (teenage mothers, out of school girls, Gender-Based Violence survivors) as from 18-35 years  of age  and those who dropped out due to cultural barriers and any other forms of vulnerability. The project will directly serve 330 beneficiaries during the implementation period of 1 year. 230 marginalized school-going girls will be supported with learning materials and 100 dropout girls and young women will be engaged in life skills trainings to restore and keep their hope and dreams alive. The life skills training beneficiaries will be enrolled based on their interests and motivations to undertake the courses.

The solution will impact their lives by improving and shaping their learning, supporting scholastic materials, tailoring and hairdressing start-up kits to leverage their livelihoods and enhance resilience, from less educated refugee community to high educated ones, from lower income to higher refugee income communities and many more self-employment opportunities. This will change their backgrounds from the lower rank to higher and be the leads in their communities. By so doing, this will create a sense of exclusivity for the marginalized target groups. 

Following the statistics of school going and non-school going girls and young women, PRODEVIOW will conduct surveys to gather Need-Assessment data to identify and determine the most affected target’s population. The project will provide scholastic materials, tailoring and hairdressing start-up kits support for quality learning. Meetings will support the implementation of the project activities. Awareness will facilitate dissemination of information at higher rate and community’s behavioral change. Trainings on tailoring, dressmaking and hairdressing will be conducted to help beneficiaries generate their incomes. Monitoring and evaluation will be conducted to measure the achievements of the project outcomes.  

PRODEVIOW is unique and different from other competitors by its operations approaches. Many competitors in Kakuma Refugee Camp encounter challenges in terms of responding to and improving the life of marginalized girls and young women both formal and informal learning and training because they do only empower their beneficiaries without supporting them with any thing to start up initiatives. Girls,  girls children living with disabilities; unaccompanied girls and orphan girls are being left out of participating in community initiatives which make them feel marginalized and excluded. Following the statistics of marginalized school going and non-school going girls, PRODEVIOW will empower and supoort beneficiaries with jnkwledge and to succeed in their lives. The project is to ensure that we work out effectively and finally changes their former lower status and from marginalization to inclusion. 

Children girls from 6-12 are trained on:                                                        1. Resilience: Childer are taught how to resilient and overcome their difficulties.                                                                                                      2. I have a dream to: Beneficiaries are trained how to succeed dealing with  challenges to their dreams.                                                                         3.Let us imagine out loud: Participants are to analyze the daily duties as childeren.                                                                                                   4. Career profile: Children are highlghed the gist contained in one's career profile as, status, photo, biography, contact and social network information and privacy setting. 

5. In her shoes: Children are to analyze aspect of life via imagination and art.  

Considering the location and environmnent where we are situated, the use of technology is still a very critical challenging issues to the people we serve. Due to this challenge we therefore apply mobile software as means of technology.

PRODEVIOW is currently serving 330 and will serve 1320. In the years PRODEVIOW will serve 6600 girls and young women. 

Our goals within the next year is to ensure improved conducive learning and within the next five years we ensure sustainable livelihood.

Lack of in kind and materials support, practice of harmful cultures are the barriers that may hinder the effectiveness of the project implementation.

More funds and grants from different donors ,meetings, training and community awareness will be used as the tools to overcome the barrires.

Full time-time staff: 13

Part-time staff: 19

PRODEVIOW would like to have so many staff who could join the team and work on behalf of refugees communities. But due to lack of resources and funding, the project still has two separate numbers staffs and the need is higher than our capacity. In order to cover and reach a large number of beneficiaries to serve targeted groups, the project need more grants that could be used to fill these gaps and proposed solutions. Implementation of this project will give access to some refugees to get employment and contribute to local economy. 

PRODEVIOW has qualified staffs who have been implementing activities that are to be covered by this grant under this project. Project coordinator and the Monitoring and Evaluation and Accountability officer will oversee the day today management of the project activities. The project Director will backstop technical support during implementation of program activities and will provide overall administrative support and will the link person in relation to donor communication.

PRODEVIOW recognizes the important role of partnership plays in project design and implementation. Going forward the organization will continue to include the community in all aspects of project implementation by strengthening community structures with which it works to assist in coming up with community managed and more sustainable projects.The organization will realize its objective for effective and beneficial services to targeted beneficiaries including children, girls young women through close working relationships with partners who such as Refugee Affairs Secretariat, UNHCR, XAVIERPROJECT, USEC, ODWEP and Lutheran World Federation who PRODEVIOW will be working directly or through service coordination groups in including Child Protection Working Group and GBV working group among others.

PRODEVIOW will implement its activities in partnership using its globally embraced approach which includes the right based approach and empowerment approach. This will be done in partnership with key partners and stakeholders who include the government of Kenya, Private and public institutions,partner organization, community leaders, Refugee technical communities. The implementation in all aspects approved will be in compliance with known minimum standards and practices which will include UNHCR standard, Sphere standard, INEE standard and standard set by relevant ministries in the government of Kenya as much as practical. PREDEVIOW will be bound by HAP accountability bench marks which will require high levels of transparency and accountability not only in resource manage management and allocation but also in delivery of commitment to the beneficiaries. Guidance of day to day practices in financial management,procurement and Human resource management will guided by will stipulated policies and codes of conduct that will be adhered to the letter.

PRODEVIOW has actively embraced community empowerment approach which is aimed at building and developing the capacity of the community to enable them manage project activities in the relevant in the event that PRODEVIOW scales down or withdraws all together from the project area. Proper record keeping of project assets, documentation of activities and a database of all ongoing support will be continuously updated to facilitate any smooth  handover if such becomes necessary. The existing structures will be trained on management skills for existing and new target groups for continuity of the project. The organization will leverage to build the capacity of the target group on management of their Enterprise and establish market linkages to sell their products therefore building self reliance and sustainability.