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

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2018 - 2030

Partner(s)

Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya, SOWED Kenya

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas 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

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

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