We believe sustainable development and transformation are essential to ensuring the creation of justifiable initiatives that empower poor, marginalized and vulnerable people to change their lives and communities. Some of the programs that benefit IYAU’s beneficiaries are;
- Education and training
· We work with peer educators to train different HIV groups in the community in literacy, writing and financial management skills.
· Provision of scholastic materials to OVC who are in school.
· We carryout educational promotion of the girl child sponsorship of selected beneficiaries in primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions in order to uplift the standards of education of women in society.
· We provide technical, material and psychosocial support to OVCs in and out of school (in terms of child sponsorship in good primary, post primary and tertiary institutions, training out of children on technical/vocational skills)
- Entrepreneurship & skills development
· Enhancing the participation of women in both rural and urban areas, in economic development in order to: contribute to job creation, improved household incomes; improved food security; promote value addition in agriculture.
· Promoting access to markets and financial services for women and youths.
· Promoting social-economic empowerment for the youth and women through creating income generating opportunities
· Transforming youth, particularly those who are unemployed and disadvantaged, into more creditworthy entrepreneurs and direct them to youth-friendly financial products
· We offer training on start and improve your business to women and youth group who want to start and expand their businesses
· we promote skills development amongst the poor, marginalized and vulnerable people through hands on skill training on bar soap making, candle making, tailoring and design,carpentry and Joinery, welding and metal fabrication,electrical installation, plumbing, motor vehicle mechanics, shoes, bags, wallets and belts making
- Public health and sanitation
· Promotion health education on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and HIV Prevention (SRHR/HIV) among young people in both schools and rural communities.
· Supporting early childhood development in coordination with Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) and other paediatric HIV programs, and integrating HIV care and treatment.
· Improve care and support to people affected and infected with HIV/AIDS in terms of providing home based care through provision of food, clothing, soap and encouraging or help them access Anti-retroviral drugs from government health centres/hospitals, including, encouraging people to go for HIV/AIDS voluntary Counselling and testing and participate in IGAs
· Offering risk reduction counselling and supplies through community-based outreach and peer outreach
· Home visits to people living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) and orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) to provide counselling, nursing care, ART referral and promotion of hygiene and sanitation
· Providing HIV testing and counselling (HTC) that are accessible to Key Populations and vulnerable populations (i.e. mobile counselling and testing, drop-in centers, “hotspots,” and households)
· Enhancing youth friendly services for adolescent reproductive health and education for responsible sexual behaviour through links with our Life Planning Skills Project.
· Family planning education, awareness and referral.
· Addressing stigma and discrimination through Key Population peer networks
· Social mobilisation for pregnant women to attend antenatal care and deliver at the health facilities
· linking HIV-positive children, adolescents, and family members to healthcare facilities for care and treatment
· supporting a child-focused and family-centered approach to health and nutrition
· We promote HIV testing for OVC and OVC households
· We create supportive, child-friendly spaces for OVCs, particularly for adolescents at high risk (i.e. out-of-school girls).
· Partnering with community and facility based Key Population services to increase HIV service up-take
- Human rights advocacy
· Advocacy for the rights of vulnerable groups like: PWDs, PLHIV and OVC
· Legal representation (e.g. for cases of rape, child abuse, gender based violence)
· Awareness to access to justice, Promoting peace and reconciliation
· Capacity building and training in human rights, and democracy
· Contributing to positive changes to beliefs, attitudes, stereotypes and practices that exacerbate gender based violence and human rights violations.
· Advocacy for child rights and girls rights in health, education, against early marriage
· Focus on Alcohol, drug and substance abuse prevention mainly in children and youth; promotion of advocacy interventions; HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support; Child Protection ,combating commercial sexual exploitation of children; Prevention, rehabilitation and re-integration of children engaged in worst forms of child labour
· Prevention of Sexual Violence against women and girls
· Promoting human rights advocacy and good governance for improved service delivery in health and education
· Build the capacity of women to carryout advocacy for the policy changes so as to address women and other marginalized people’s concerns in development
- Environment and sustainable Production
· Because of the unlimited dependence of people on the environment for subsistence livelihood and income generation, IYAU sees a need to improve and restore the environment so as to contribute to the sustainability of our economy through tree planting and maintenance of existing trees to be included in all interventions, provision of tree seedlings, encouraging people to get other forms of energy (training like on energy saving stoves, briquettes), advocate for protection of swamps and partner with environment organisations
· Increase care, protection and preservation of the natural environment and/or biodiversity as a local effort to counter the already devastating effects of global warming
· Awareness and sensitization on the use of energy saving technologies and possibility of using biogas technology
· Mitigate carbon dioxide emissions and reduce the pressure on local forests through the substitution of non-renewable charcoal with an efficient and renewable alternative and at the same time turning waste into organic manure for farmers
- Livelihoods and economic empowerment program
· Increase economic sufficiency of the households through engagement in productive and sustainable agriculture and skills development for income generation through opening up income generating activities (IGAs), credit service for the rural poor and distributing emergency relief items.
· Promoting social-economic empowerment for the youth and women through creating income generating opportunities
· Enhancing sustainable agricultural production, value addition and marketing for small scale farmers
· Promotion of sustainable agriculture approaches for farming through proper resource management and ecological awareness
· Establishment of an environment for the sharing and exchange of sustainable agriculture/food security approaches and indigenous knowledge among project stakeholders and other development actors at district, national and international level.
· We raise awareness among farmers of the value of their local genetic resources, organic manures, indigenous knowledge and systems
· Promotion of the participation of women in commercial farming community level decision-making through empowering them to access and have control over income and other assets within the household
· We build on existing development initiatives by building viable partnerships that will create forward and backward market linkages that will increase opportunities for access farm inputs, technologies, and farm business development services (FBDS) and market that can offer premium or better farm gate prices
· We organize the smallholder farmer groups to engage in bulk marketing and collective bargaining so as to attract fair market prices