TINADA YOUTH ACTION AFRICA (TYAAfrica)

TINADA YOUTH ACTION AFRICA (TYAAfrica)

TINADA YOUTH ACTION AFRICA is a youth led organization with over 22 years’ experience working with and supporting young people. The organization initiate, grow, sustain, upscale and replicate successful community health development programs to enhance the wellbeing of vulnerable young people.

TINADA was established as a youth initiative with the aim of promoting youth empowerment, education promotion, health services, Mentorship and peaceful co-existence among the youth and community in general. The organization is a Youth & Family Driven Integrated Initiative, using the family to family and Youth to Youth focused interventions to demonstrate and attain human rights and sustainable community empowerment through promotion of integrated Mental health, education Empowerment, Disaster Risk Reduction, Decent Work and Economic Empowerment .

As a youth-focused and youth-led organization, TINADA has a strong sense of its own identity that provides strong bonds between the organization and the young people it supports which connects to the leading ideas that underpin the work of the organization.

Who We Work With?

  1. Relevant National and County Government departments, agencies and ministries
  2. Communities(vulnerable women, youth, children, persons with disabilities)
  3. Civil Society organizations(CBOs, NGOs,  Faith-based Organizations )
  4. Private sector

 

Who Benefits from Our Programs?

  1. 13512 adolescents and young women
  2. 5834 PWDs
  3. 325 Policy makers
  4. 341 CSOs and OPDs
  5. 12244 children

 

Thematic Areas We Work In

  1. Integrated Mental Health Services
  2. Education Empowerment
  3. Decent Work and Economic Growth
  4. Disaster Risk Reduction
  5. Rights protection

Current Challenge

  1. Inadequate funding
  2. Inadequate sharing of information among local actors
  3. Rivalry and competition for limited resources
  4. Limited expert staffing
  5. Limited infrastructure

Successes and Victories in Implementing

  1. 325 Policy Makers Supporting Youth-Led Advocacy And Engaged In Various Policy Conversations
  2. 4 policies on mental health and primary health care influenced
  3. Influenced inclusion of PHC and mental health 
  4. 13512 girls and young women facilitated to access Integrated Mental Health Services
  5. 341 CSO+OPDs Reached/ Engaged On Advocacy And Outreaches
  6. 5834 PWDs Upskilled, Empowered And Engaged In Our Disability Inclusion
  7. 12244 Children reached with information on mental health
  8. 90 schools reached with information on mental health, SRHR, HIV
  9. 1820041 community members reached with our interventions
  10. 521020 trees planted in Kisumu county
  11. 20 community groups reached with information on climate change and disaster risk reduction 
  12. 10 market clean up activities conducted.
  13. 21 mental health support groups established
  14. 37 mental health champions trained
  15. 25 young organizations mentored on organization system strengthening
  16. 142860 youths reached with our interventions

Good Practice

  1. Integrated mental health community-led peer education model- this model involves peers engaging in support group sessions to discuss mental health and issues that affect their daily lives.
  2. Use of mental health manuals and IEC materials in advocacy- this has enables
  3. Gender mainstreaming- gender inclusivity in all programs and policy frameworks
  4. Evidence-based intervention- Research as a key component of programs implementation

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