Youth First Kenya
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Key Information
Youth First Kenya, an integrated resilience and health training program, that seeks to build social and emotional assets, such as coping skills, character strengths, and positive self-regard, as well as improve adolescent health. Youth First is a teacher-facilitated, school-based program in Kenya that draws from the latest research in resilience, positive psychology, and social-emotional learning, in which potential risks or threats to wellbeing are addressed by boosting internal assets and external supports. The program focuses on teacher engagement and addresses issues of gender equality, gender relations, and gender rights, and is specifically designed to ensure equal attention is paid to skills development in girls and boys.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya
Activity URL
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2018 - 2030
Partner(s)
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya, SOWED Kenya
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
Not applicable or unknown
COVID-19 Response
AdaptedGeographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Other skills
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
- Social and emotional learning
Quality
- Teacher training
Cross-cutting areas
- Empowerment
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
Program participants
Other populations reached
- School administrators
Participants include
- Nomadic groups
- Other
Program Approaches Back to Top
Life skills education
- Gender, rights and power
- Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building
School-related gender-based violence
- Training of school personnel (including teachers)
Teaching
- In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
- In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Improved critical thinking
- Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
- Increased school completion (general)
Cross-cutting goals
- Increased knowledge of rights