Accessibility of SRHR services for young people

We as a team will solve infrastructure for youth center and equiping with necessary technologies and furniture so that it will be conducive for youths recreational and service provision (Information, counseling and clinical services) area. 

Capacity building trainings will be provided for health workers and teachers and young people themselves.

My solution will provide an opportunity for the young people to freely talk about their SRHR with their peers and service providers and access services they need to be healthier and productive force. It may need online services access and sound system.

Target population for this solution are young people who will be served by young people themselves and the solution impacts their life meaningfully in helping them stay healthier by preventing unintended health outcomes of SRH health problems and addictions so that they will be a productive citizens for their family and country. The solution will be tailored to each young people who visits the youth center and those which will be addressed through out reach services.   

The tea members are from the community and they are very thrilled to address the complex sexual and reproductive health problems affecting their peers and young peoples in their community. 

It uses home grown solutions and establishes Income generating activities to sustain the intervention. The youths are part and parcel of the project and it provides full and meaningful engagement of young people in all matters which concerns them. 

It is directly linked with the sustainable development goal in addressing young peoples sexual and reproductive health and rights so that they will remain free of disease due to reproduction and its processes and will productive forces of the nation.    

Social medias will be used in information dissemination among peers. DSTV also used for the purpose of entertainment and educational purposes. Capacity building  projectors and computers also will be used.

Ethical clearance will be obtained from the zonal health bureau and a license for legality of the group establishment will be recieved from Sigimo woreda health office and entrepreneur office. Agreement also will be signed. Regular monitoring of the planned activities performance will be made in joint supportive supervision with government concerned bodies and the project will be evaluated at mid and end of the implementation period.

Empowered young people you will be health and productive. This will be achieved through proper implementation of the planned project activities and working collaboratively with all concerned government sectors.  

The team is composed of 4 interns who can dedicate 50% of their time, 4 volunteers who can dedicate 100% of their time and three technical assistances who can dedicate 5% of their time. The team can mobilize more youth advisory council members to freely support the implementation of this project. The youth council representatives will be organized as IGA groups so that the intervention will be sustained beyond the the intervention period. The team pledged to mobilize local resource once recieved some grants to convince government sectors and private companies. 

The group established 6 months ago and had been undertaking situational analysis to identify common challenges oy young peoples in accessing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services and come up with non functionality of youth centers due to poor infrastructure, lack of SRHR information provision facilities, lack of recreational facilities and absence of communication technologies such as computers and internet access and capacity building facilities including LCD.  

Our team leadership believes in diversity in culture, religion, gender, ethnicity and the like. We also aspire to be inclusive in addressing the need for peoples with disabilities and with diffrent social status. Our goal is not to leave anyone behind. Though Ethiopia is a country of multiple sociocultural diversity and near to 83 ethnicities, we are including all concerned who are residing in the woreda. Jimma zone is mainly composed of Muslim religion population where as all other religions followers also live in the area. Thus, proportional allocation will be applied in all socio cultural aspects.

The team focuses on the young age female and male populations ranging within the age of 15-29 (Young people definition in Ethiopia), however we also don't deny service for those who are up to the age of 35 years old.        

The comprises staffs with diffrent knowledge and skills particularly, health and accounting, technology, managment and leadership.

The key layers in the implementation of this project are the young people themselves and we include key stallholders such health managers, Women children and social affair office, the education office, entrepreneur office, Sport and youth office and all non governmental organizations operating in the zone and the specific woreda. 

The team is going to establish income generating activities including collecting very subsidized cost from young peoples who seeks service particularly form DSTV, shower service, production and distribution of local menstrual hygiene managment products, and collecting contributions from government offices who are concerned and have the responsibility to support youth intervention and we also make continued efforts in getting donations    as well.

Since we are newly organized and not licensed, we don't have operating costs and the youth members are providing free services. We have planned  a total of $ 14,100.00 for 2024 physical year.

Since we are at the initial phase it is enough if we get $ 20,000.00 including human capital hiring particularly for the financial managment and overall leadership. Initially, we didn't consider manpower based on wages. 

The program will highly help our team in capacitating ourselves as most of members are fresh graduates and unemployed. Both the seed funding and the mentorship supports us a lot.