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African Youth for Peace Development and Empowerment Foundation
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About Us
Who We Are
African Youth for Peace Development and Empowerment Foundation, (AFRYDEYV) is a youth and omen led nongovernmental, humanitarian and development organization established in 2013 with the mission to serve as a platform for enlightenment and empowerment of youth society for peace and development through active participation by mainstreaming their issues and concerns into national development agenda based on United Nation Sustainable Development Goals. The organization is formally registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission in 2016 with registration Number: CAC/ITNO: 90661 the Social Control Unit against Money Laundering (SCUML) with registration Number: SC361400014 in 2017 and has obtain DUNS Registration Number: 561295729 as well as PADOR.
Vision
We aspire to be Africa's leading youth and women organization in civic engagement, peacebuilding, and socio-economic development.
Our mission
To serve as a platform for youth and women empowerment in the Lake Chad Region, with a focus on civic engagement, peacebuilding, and socioeconomic development by mainstreaming their issues and concerns into national development agenda based on United Nation Sustainable Development Goals.
Our Values
The values that define us as people and influence our work are
Service
We are a committed group of people working for a cause and providing service to humanity; our dedication will not be questioned at any time, and we strive to lead by example with no room for excuses.
Equity
Fairness and impartiality are our guiding principles in all our engagements; they motivate us to demand access to justice for victims and in pursuits that facilitates holding perpetrators accountable.
Innovation
Thinking outside the box defines how we approach issues. We continually make improvements our work processes; learning and adapting. Our team members think critically and always present novel solutions that create greater impact.
Result Orientated
We believe in science, that every action we take should be questioned as to why we are doing it, and that work should be measured by the results achieved rather than the effort put in.
Accountability
We believe in and strive for a high level of accountability, transparency, and stewardship in keeping accurate records, and we are always willing to explain our actions in an accurate, timely, and succinct manner.
Our approach to facilitating and empowering women and youths to participate in civic engagement, peacebuilding, and positive social mobility in the interests of our target audience is based on empirical research, stakeholder mapping, capacity building and facilitating dialogue, peacebuilding initiatives, community engagement, sensitization, and advocacy, and, most importantly for us, through community engagement, sensitization, and advocacy.
Goals
AFRYDEF hopes to consolidate and expand its work in meaningful ways that enables it to achieve the following stretch goals:
- To become a resource centre for best practices, participation, and documented cases of youth and women Participation in civic engagement, peacebuilding and socio-economic development in the Lake Chad Region.
- To serve as a resource for promoting human rights, preventing sexual and gender-based violence working with the conflict affected communities/ populations in the Lake Chad Region
- Create a critical mass of youth-led and focused communities/groups with the knowledge and skills to drive civic engagement, peacebuilding and prevention and countering violent extremism.
- To be the Lake Chad Region's leading skills development, social entrepreneurship, and youth empowerment center.
- To scale-up response to improve health and well-being of conflict affected population through provision of basic needs and essential services such as food, livelthood, shelter, water, sanitation, and basic health care; action to strengthen recovery and resilience in the Lake Chad Region.
Strategic Areas Of Work
- Strengthening youth and women participation in civic engagement, this for us includes participation in policymaking and peacebuilding processes, elections and governance, and positive social mobility.
- Improving the quality and access to justice for the girl child, youths, and women victims of human rights violations, sexual and gender-based violence and vulnerable groups.
- Raising vibrant youths, women and communities’ capacity for wealth creation, leadership, and positive social mobility.
- Build internal capacity to lead youth and women participation in civic engagement, peacebuilding, prevention and countering violent extremism and social economic development.
- Collaborate with government, Donors, Private sectors and other NGOs local and International in pursuit of our mandate
Core Competencies
Capacity Building, Leadership Development, Resource mobilization, Monitoring and Evaluation, Advocacy, Financial Management, Programme Development and Management, Partnership development and Coordination.
To fulfill our mission, we have delineated our program activities into three sub –thematic areas namely:
Civic Engagement
Our goal in this area is to increase youth and women participation in civic engagement that fosters humane and safe societies. To do so, we will collaborate with communities, state, and non-state actors on civic-related initiatives across the following focus issues;
- Elections and Good Governance Youth and Women Participation in Police Making
- Youth and Women Mentorship and Leadership Initiatives
- Health, including mental health of persons in conflict affected communities
- Food Insecurity and Climate Change
- Digital Rights and Privacy
- Sporting and Recreational Initiatives
Peacebuilding
AFRYDEV focus on the following issues/program areas as part of our vision of change that drives and promotes safe societies where women, youths, and conflict-affected communities are empowered to reduce crime, prevent recruitment and radicalization of women and youths, including their participation in violence extremist activities, sexual and gender-based violence, while promoting human rights and peacebuilding.
- Promoting youths and women rights.
- Sexual and gender-based violence, including facilitating its prevention, Psychosocial and mental support and access to justice and victims’ care.
- Youths and Women participation in Peacebuilding Initiatives at the community, local and state level.
- Prevention and counter violence extremism Initiatives, including addressing challenges of youths and women radicalization, and participation in extremist violence.
- Support De-radicalization and reintegration to foster peace building in affected communities.
Social Economic Development
Lifting the youth and women population in the Lake Chad region, as well as conflict-affected communities, out of poverty and influencing positive social mobility, remains our top priority, and our attention will be focused on the following issues within this thematic program.
- Social economic rights and justice
- Health and well-being of disaster and conflict affected population through provision of basic needs and essential services such as food, livelihood, shelter, water, sanitation, and basic health care.
- Skill acquisition and capacity building initiatives for youth, women, and girls.
- Facilitating wealth creation and access to socio-economic opportunities
- Urbanization, including reasonable housing units and initiatives that improves standard of living among youths and women.
- Improving youth and women literacy, access to education, including formal and informal education. And safer school Initiatives
- Employability skills trainings and job placement
- Entrepreneurship Programs, including trainings, access to opportunities for funding’s and_ start-up resources.