The nationwide “Youth-to-Youth” programme in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda encompasses an extensive range of activities, including: establishing and supervising youth clubs; leadership and life skills training; training of peer educators and counsellors; training of health personnel in youth-friendly service delivery; developing and distributing information materials; referring people in need of assistance to youth-friendly health services; dialogue with local and religious leaders, parents and teachers; training of business skills and in implementing income generating activities within the youth clubs.

Besides our nationwide “Youth-to-Youth” programmes in each of our four African focus countries we engage in active political dialogue with politicians at the local, regional and national level. Furthermore, we supported the following country-specific programmes in 2009

Ethiopia

• DSW/BONITA training centre in Debrezeit
• Integrated environmental protection and family planning project in the Kaffa region in South-Western Ethiopia
• “Fight Fistula!”: education initiative on obstetric fistula in the Amhara region
• “Space for Girls” – support of girls-only clubs for sexual and reproductive health
• Sexual education at flower farms near Addis Ababa
  

Kenya

• Integration of sports/football with sexual education projects
• Establishment of self sustainable youth empowerment centres • Mobile HIV testing and counselling services in three different regions
• Training youth as home-based care providers for people living with AIDS
• Integrated environmental protection and family planning project in the Kakamega rainforest
  

Tanzania

• Extension of the training centre near Arusha
• Youth truck – mobile sexual and reproductive health education
• Fit for Future” – combined sexual education and skills training especially for girls working in the informal sector
  

Uganda

• DSW/Bonita Training Centre in Kampala
  
• Y2Y Programme and
  Y2Y Directly Sponsored Clubs
  

• Budongo Integrated Conservation and Reproductive Health Project (BICRHP)

• DSW/MOGLSD Youth Truck Programme

• Capacity Building project to improve knowledge and skills for HIV/Aids prevention

• Prevention of HIV/Aids among young people in Wakiso district

• Euroleverage Project

• Building HIV/AIDS Prevention Capacity to benefit youth in selected communities

• Back Up Initiative

• “Younger Adolescents”
  Pilot project

• DSW Uganda Youth Truck
  

• Healthy Action

• AHEAD

Cambodia

• Sexual and reproductive health education at schools in the Kandal District
  

Nepal

• Sexual education in twelve rural outreach clinics of the Dhulikhel hospital, Kavrepalanchok District