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About YEAH

Through the RLOs, YEAH has achieved the following:

  • Established partnerships with more than 400 Ugandan and international organizations.
  • Reached more than 100,000 young people through interpersonal communication approaches and more than five million through electronic media.
  • Developed an approach to campaign management that maximizes participation and ownership by young people and all stakeholders in planning, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
  • Provided opportunities for young people and adults to discuss risks to their sexual and reproductive health and ways to curb such risks.
  • With funding and support from SCUS, is able to consistently provide support on issues of adolescent health including HIV/AIDS prevention to the vulnerable northern region.
  • Conducted 4 health fairs around the country to rally communities and local organizations around transactional sex.
  • Coordinated five well established Young people’s Advisory Groups (YAGs), one in Kampala and four in the regions who actively advise the campaign on appropriateness of messages, materials, approaches to community outreach, participate in campaign strategy design, materials development including reviews and pre-tests.
  • Trained RLO trainers and YAGs and provided them with support materials and tools to be able to train other youth groups, faith-based groups, community resource persons and community based organizations.