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SOCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

TDYT projects employ a Social Risk Management approach to enable vulnerable young women and girls, boys and young men, households and communities to improve their ability to deal with “the likelihood of being harmed by unforeseen events or as susceptibility to exogenous shocks” that result in poor Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) outcomes. These unforeseen events and shocks are driven by; economic shocks and stresses; environmental fragility; vulnerability to diseases/ill-health and discriminatory social norms and belief systems.

The Social Risk Management approach therefore seeks to manage the impact of risks and shocks through the application of prevention, mitigation and coping strategies using the following project strategies:

1. HOUSEHOLD ECONOMIC SECURITY STRENGTHENING

The purpose of household economic capacity strengthening is to enable young people and their households to sustain their livelihoods by strengthening human, social and financial assets and improving household resilience to economic shocks by:

1. Facilitating the establishment of Income Generating Activities (IGAs).
2. Facilitating the organization of groups/societies to engage in economic activities.
3. Formation of local community operated savings groups.
4. Providing grants to individuals/households to establish IGAs to establish IGAs.
5. Provide vocational training and facilitate apprenticeships for youth.
6. Support community level enterprise development.

2. PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT

Psychosocial support services are important in that they help project beneficiaries to exercise their SRHR and other issues that adversely affect their growth and development. Psychosocial Support enables children and youth to develop:

1. Self-confidence – trust in oneself and others.
2. Nurturance – supporting and encouraging positive behaviors.
3. Self-respect – act and behave responsibly behave.
4. Make decisions – uses reasons and experience to make sensible decisions.
5. Courageous – be able to stand on ones decisions.

TYDT will strengthen the provision of psychosocial support services by ensuring that caregivers and service providers are equipped with knowledge, skills and appropriate attitudes to provide psychological support and skills to prepare young people for life as they grow through the different development stages.

3. ACCESS TO BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES

TYDT works with young people, their households and communities to improve access to health, education, justice and social welfare services in order to ensure their growth and development into active members of society.

HEALTH

Under access to health services TYDT works with young people and health service providers to address the challenges posed by, poor knowledge of sexual health and safe sexual health practices and high risk behaviors .i.e. unprotected sex leading to teenage pregnancies and STIs including HIV infection. TYDT implements community level sexual health promoting programmes that help adolescents to acquire the knowledge and skills to promote safe sexual health practices.

EDUCATION

The education component of TYDT projects is designed to ensure that all children have to access to educational services that meets their developmental needs from pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary levels in a manner which builds the human capital base of the communities.

TYDT supports the following initiatives

1. Empowering parents/caregivers economically through IGAs, savings groups and enterprise development to support educational needs of their children.
2. Provide literacy centers for out of- school children to improve their access to continuous education.
3. Conduct sensitization campaigns at community level targeted at parents, care givers and traditional leaders on the discriminatory social norms and belief systems and how they affect the education of children.
4. Provide vocational education services for out of school youth.
5. Provide tuition fees, uniforms, scholastic materials and sanitary products for girls.

4. STRENGTHENING SRHR COMMUNITY COMPETENCE

TYDT works with communities to enhance SRHR competencies to effectively address the following; lack of comprehensive knowledge of SRHR/HIV issues by young people; lack of skills and information on SRHR/HIV issues among parents and community leaders to support young people and the persistent promotion by communities and religious groups of harmful social and cultural practices that contribute to negative SRHR outcomes among young people.

TYDT supports SRHR community competencies through the following activities

1. Community mobilization to raise awareness and motivation to participate and address SRHR issues.
2. Facilitate the acquisition by community stakeholders of relevant knowledge and skills to address SRHR issues.
3. Support the mobilization of resources (human, physical and financial) necessary to meet the present and future requirements to address SRHR issues