AAIK Programs in Nairobi County
DANIDA Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) 2
This is the second phase of this partnership that is funded by DANIDA through ActionAid Denmark from January 2022 to December 2025.
OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Young people, especially women, and marginalised people enjoy fundamental rights through improved access to well-resourced programmes and public services, improved sustainable livelihoods, protection from and resilience to shocks, disasters, and protracted crisis in 5 arid and semi-arid counties.
Key Actions
- Train young people on leadership, human rights, rights to services, fundamental freedoms, relevant legal frameworks, and budget tracking.
- Facilitate young people and their institutions to undertake social audits on delivery of government priorities and GRPS and present the findings in critical platforms where decisions are made.
- Build capacity of young people to influence the enactment and implementation of policies, laws, and strategies that advance realization of climate justice.
- Train young people on disaster preparedness and mitigation in line with ActionAid’s Humanitarian Signature.
Intermediate Outcomes
- Young people build leadership and have knowledge and tools to hold governments and humanitarian actors accountable.
-Young people engage in social movements and with other stakeholders to build alliances and bring leverage to their actions.
-Young people analyze and define their priorities and gather evidence for advocacy.
-Young people develop and pilot alternative solutions.
Long-Term Outcomes
- Young people and their allies hold governments to account for the delivery of well-resourced public services and social protection programmes.
- Young people and their allies meaningfully participate in decision making processes at all levels.
- Young people and their allies provide sustainable, climate just, and resilient solutions that are scalable or replicable.
- Young people lead collective action together with allies to reduce vulnerabilities and build resilience in their communities.
Strategic Objectives
SO1: Enjoyment of fundamental rights through improved access to well- resourced programmes and public services by young people, especially women, and marginalised people.
SO2:Enjoyment of improved sustainable livelihoods through climate accountable governments and alternatives that build climate resilience by young people, especially women, and marginalised people.
SO3: Young people, especially women, and marginalised people are resilient to shocks and enjoy their right to protection in fragile situations, disasters, and protracted cris
ASSUMPTIONS: AAIK and local partners promote dialogue between young people’s movements and duty bearers to advance young people’s priorities (IO2) and support young people with the capacity and tools to analyze and define their priorities and the ability to gather evidence for advocacy (IO3), then young people will have the capacity to keep governments accountable (LTO1) and the ability to participate in decision making (LTO2).
CampusMeToo
CampusMeToo is a student-led, Pan-African movement to end sexual harassment from staff on campus. On the 19th of November 2019, CampusMeToo was launched inspired by the success of the #MeToo and #SexForGrades for grades movement to empower students to break the silence on sexual harassment through creative student-led activism.The CampusMeToo movement ambassadors aim to create awareness on ending sexual harassment from staff on campus. To achieve this, the students came up with 5 key demands:
- Facilitate all newly enrolled students to watch an educational resource on sexual harassment, and make sexual harassment a topic in every induction for newly enrolled students
- Conduct a yearly training for all staff on sexual harassment. At the end of the training, all staff must sign a standardized code of conduct and ethics
- Appoint a Gender Officer with the obligation to: facilitate training and outreach on sexual harassment; provide resources and support to victims of sexual harassment; and develop, disseminate, implement, and review relevant policies on sexual harassment
- Establish an investigative committee that students can approach when they have received unfair or missing marks due to instances of sexual harassment from university lecturers or staff
- Incorporate Demands 1 – 4 into its sexual harassment policy, publish an annual report detailing the progress on achieving the objectives, and implement a sexual harassment assessment survey every two years to monitor the issue.