Our Programs & Interventions

<p>Empowering children and youths with soft and hard skills remains critical in Simukai’s efforts to provide holistic services.&nbsp;</p><p>The complete rehabilitation of Programme participants entails them being empowered with life changing skills through education and training. Exploiting and full utilization of technology within our education and training hubs is a core component for the organisation and this will be scaled up in order to address the ever-changing needs of business and industry.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>

<p><strong>&nbsp;(Emergency Preparedness and Response)</strong></p><p>In our new thrust to empower our beneficiaries and the communities, Simukai will invest in developing Anticipatory Action Frameworks (AAF) to weather, climate and other hazards for the protection of humanitarian and development gains, with integration of GBV prevention and child protection standards.&nbsp;</p><p>This calls for total transformation of the approach from being responsive to being proactive in empowering Programme participants and communities in mitigating the negative effects of climate change and other hazards.&nbsp;</p><p>Given the now unpredictable weather and climatic conditions in our areas of operation it is best for both the organisation and Programme participants to be well prepared in advance by coming up with Anticipatory Action Frameworks that are well funded. This calls for partnering with like-minded organisations that have experience in addressing issues of disaster preparedness and response, climate change and addressing hunger within areas of operation.&nbsp;</p><p>More importantly there is a need for a new shift in how the organisation, Programme participants and the communities relate with the natural environment. The need to establish a mutually beneficial relationship with the natural environment has become more critical given the negative effects of climate change on our Programme participants and communities.&nbsp;</p>

<p>To address some of the issues affecting children, youth and their communities, the organization will strengthen its economic empowerment approach for both individuals and groups. This entails increasing support towards our local communities through more sustainable environment friendly livelihoods projects.&nbsp;</p><p>This also involves broadening and implementing a comprehensive package of self-sustaining and environmentally friendly interventions in selected communities.&nbsp;</p><p>In order to ensure sustainability of the economic strengthening projects, the organisation will partner with the private/business sector in providing technology driven economic models that are suitable to the local environment.</p>

<p>Simukai’s strategic focus calls for increased investment in research and advocacy. Research and advocacy are key as the organisation seek to conduct evidence-based advocacy on various issues affecting Programme participants and communities.&nbsp;</p><p>In implementing programmes, these will be accompanied with conducting operations research which will generate new data and trends that will help improve programming. Partnering with academic research institutes will be pursued for to enhance research skills and capacity as well as coming up with reliable results.&nbsp;</p><p>Carrying out longitudinal research studies in partnership with likeminded institutions will help identify new areas that need intervention as well as provide key advocacy issues that need attention going forward.&nbsp;</p><p>Informed by results from various researches the organisation will engage in local, national, regional and international advocacy activities that are data and evidence driven. This data will be used to conduct awareness raising, engage policy makers to influence law reforms and generate demand for services.&nbsp;</p>