Final Youth2Youth Zambia organizational profile

P . O . B o x 3 6 0 0 7 0 L u s a k a Z a m b i a

E m a i l : y 2 y z a m b i a @ g m a i l . c o m

2014

ORGANIZATIONAL

PROFILE

Youth 2 Youth Zambia

“A generation of youths aspiring to inspire

others by changing their definition and shaping

who they are”

Y2Y ZAMBIA

YOUTH 2 YOUTH ZAMBIA –ORGANIZATION PROFILE

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“A generation of youths aspiring to inspire others by changing their definition and shaping who they are” Email: [email protected] P.O. Box 360070 Lusaka, Zambia

Email: [email protected]

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BACKGROUND

Youth 2 Youth Zambia is an initiative that is youth centered, focused and led. The initiative which is

aimed at mentoring and molding the capacity of young people ;in and out of school young people

(15- 35) into self-reliant, self- sustainable, talented and productive individuals. realizing the gaps in the

development agenda and the growing youth challenges that need immediate solution as they are key to

development the initiate was conceptualized during the UNWTO youth forum on sustainable tourism

(2013); noted that although the youth are the majority population of the global village, they are still

under-utilized, marginalized, under productive and most luck the skills to make them marketable in the

circles of employment, business and capitalization.

According to the country’s statistics Zambia is a youthful country, with approximately 74 percent of

its 14 million total population under the age of 30 (28 percent are 15 to 29 years-old). Annual

population growth rate estimates range from 2.4 to 3 percent, and projections indicate a population of

24.5 million by 2030 Zambian Youth, like many young people in developing countries, face

challenges such as high unemployment rates, poor quality of education and educational opportunities,

limited civic engagement opportunities, high HIV prevalence rates, teenage pregnancy, and early

marriage. In Zambia, young people make up a significant proportion of the available labor force, yet

unemployment rates for 20- to 24-year-olds have been estimated to be as much as five times greater

than for older adults. While many employers are hiring youth, key constraints prevent young people

from finding work. These factors include a misalignment of education and labor market needs, lack of

experience, nepotism and corruption in the labor market, and a lack of skills and entrepreneurship

training.

Youth 2 Youth Zambia was established in 2013 and was officially registered in 2014 as an

operational organization created for the purpose of youth capacity development, engagement and

participation to remedy some of the stipulated challenges faced by youth; enabling them to optimize

their opportunities in employment circles, entrepreneurship and trainings, furthermore have capacity

built in life skills. The initiative is aimed to address the cross cutting issues that are muti- cultural or

cross -culture and are threating the world’s largest resource and power force for change.

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The organization believes that equal opportunities, consideration and engagement are a basic

fundamental human right and that individual youths, both sexes have the right to access quality and

accurate information on citizen empowerment opportunities, entrepreneurship, cross culture issues,

cross cutting issues and life skills to enable them adapt and mitigate; and respond to the worlds

diversification and communal needs effectively and positively. Youth2Youth Zambia believes that

greatest challenge of this generation is addressing the ever challenging needs of the globe village, the

luck of skills in the out of school youths, inadequate youth mentorship and the mismatch in skills

against the competitive circle of employment, this has contributed to a lot of disparities, and has

impacted the economy, accelerated the epidemic incidences which has affected and threatened the

most essential human life.

It is undoubtedly, that this is a global challenge with multiple interlinked factors such as poverty,

environmental unsustainability, no economic equity, luck gender equality, climate change, poor

resilience, inequitable distribution of natural resources, infringement of human rights, and inequality

between and within populations. Young people have been the most affected yet constitute the larger

majority of the population in Zambia and globally. Hence, there is need for honest guidance to the

young people in promoting community development through capacity and character development,

cross- culture and cross-cutting issues based projects. The world has dynamically changed in terms of

development strategies; which are meant to improve the livelihood of the people especially in poor

communities. There must be an investment that ensures the young people are to be empowered with

knowledge to ensure they play a role that will demand government to meet their commitments towards

youth employment and Job creation.

OUR ROLE AS CIVIL SOCIETY

To provide young people with the opportunities in skills development, be a driving force behind

greater achievements through the active mobilization and engagement of young people with public

support through information collection and dissemination, provide linkages for mentorship, policy

development consultation and policy implementation, lobbying and advocating for equal

opportunities and participation.


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To promote investment in youth, by promoting youth sustainable entrepreneurship, capacity and

character development, life skill and youth productivity in addition to awareness creation on cross

culture and cross cutting issues that affect youth in the global village.

AIM

To mentor and mold young people into self-reliant, self- sustainable, talented and productive

individuals; empowered to thrive as entrepreneurs, peer mentors, role models and youth

ambassadors in tourism, cross-cutting and cross culture issues while contributing to sustainable

development .

VISION

Youth to Youth Zambia envisions a globe village of youths that are empowered, motivated, self-

reliant productive and are meet with equal opportunities. Creating a generation empowered with

actions for sustainable development at community, district, national and global level.

MISSION

To empower, enhance and strengthen youth capacity in addressing the cross cutting issues that are

muti- cultural or cross -culture and are threating the world’s largest resource and power force for

change by cultivating an enabling environment and equal opportunities for sustainable

development.

CATCHMENT /OPERATIONAL AREAS

Youth to Youth Zambia is situated in Lusaka, capital city of Zambia and will be operating

from Lusaka mainly with its activities spread cross the provinces, with keen interest in the

touristic prone areas such as Livingstone, Siavonga, Solwezi, Mwinilunga and Chipata.


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OUR MANDATE

The organization wishes to offer services that are holistic and are universally applicable hence our

mandate as an organization is to provide services that boarder on the four pillars which are interlinked

1. Tourism

1) Cross cultural issues sensitization and awareness creation

2) Promotion of youths in tourism

3) Cross culture exploration

4) Work camps

5) Work placements

6) voluntourism

2. Environment

1) Advocacy for climate change

2) Mitigation and adaptation of environmental friendly projects

3) Environmental conservation

4) Eco-tourism and eco agriculture

3. Entrepreneurship

1) Youth empowerment and entrepreneurship skills development

2) Life skills education and mentorship

3) Advocacy and lobbying for equal opportunities

4) Capacity and character development

5) Internships and work placements

4. Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights

1) sexual and reproductive health and rights education

2) peer to peer support

3) creation of youth friendly environments and spaces

4) campaigns and sensitization/outreaches

5) advocacy and lobbying for SRHR


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Other activities that the organization can engage into include education, gender, advocacy,

employment, governance and general NGO management related activities

OUR KEY PRINCIPLES

Holistic approach – our programing must capitalize on synergy across different sectors,

understanding and responding to the complex interrelations between global development challenges.

1. All Inclusive – all activities and organizational process must be transparent, open and

participatory, recognizing access to information and decision-making as the foundation of good

governance, through engagement

2. Equitable – ensuring that the participation on all program is gender, sexual orientations and

ethnic sensitive and accommodative, achieving reductions in inequality both within groups and

nations

3. Universally applicable – our program aim to set evidence based best practice in order to

address the global challenges we face, we want its systems applicable to all countries, whether

from global north or south, and there be need to have obligations, ownership towards the global

achievements.

4. Integrity – in our programing we value truthfulness, fairness and honesty in our internal and

external relationships, communication and transactions.

5. Accountability- ensuring sustainability we and growth we are committed to, value and

practice transparency in all our internal and external relations, communication and transactions.

6. Excellence – thriving for excellence and being exceptional we respect the motion of progress

and pursue it to the fullest and are committed to professionalism and timeliness, and credibility

in all.

7. Innovation –aspiring to inspire other we appreciate, support and encourage innovation

believing that for every person there lies a bright idea and a great vision.


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KEY PARTNERSHIPS AND STAKE HOLDERS

Ministry of Tourism and Arts

Ministry of Lands Natural Resources and Environment Protection

Ministry of Gender, Mother and Child development

Ministry of Health

Zambia Tourism Board

Zambia Tourism Association

Zimbabwe Ministry of Tourism

Zimbabwe Tourism board

United Nations World Tourism Organization

UNESCO- Education

UNESCO- Arts and Culture

International Labor Organization

United Nations Development Programme

National Youth Development Council

National Arts council

Zambia National Youth Population Council

Zambia Network for Youth Organization

Youth 2 Youth Zimbabwe

Repssi

Youth Bridge foundation Zambian chapter

Restless Development

Zambia Center for Communication development

The community

JIREH Community school

YCE Social and Culture Tours


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ORGANIZATION PERSONNEL AND MANAGEMENT

Youth 2 Youth Zambia is programed to operate with a workforce of sixteen (16) personnel and

unlimited number of volunteers including those that work as contracted volunteers as per requirements

of the different projects the organization will implement. The work team includes the senior

management, middle management and general workers. We have and use qualified workers and

volunteers trained and experienced in all the four pillars and areas of focus as an organization. Below

are the details of some of our personnel starting with the Country Program Director.

DIRECTORS

1ST DIRECTOR - Ms. Auxiria Mwanza

The Country Program Director, is a social

worker by profession who was trained under

the University of Kwa-zulu natal

Among her attributes are:

Good interpersonal skills, communication

skills hence able to communicate clearly and

concisely with people of dissimilar

backgrounds and different levels of authority.

Good leadership qualities and skills and is able

to lead, participate as a team player who

collaborates with diversely talented team

members and integrates their divergent

thoughts or views into meaningful actions. She

is truthful, honest and trust worthy

Has knowledge in project planning and

management, ability to work independently

under strenuous and demanding conditions

Excellent report writing skills and vast

knowledge in community work alongside

experience and is self-motivated, innovative

and goal oriented

She is open minded, open to learning and

changes, easily adopts, can thrive regardless of

situation, circumstances and disposition; is

resilient.

Resource mobilization and proposal writing

and delivery experience.


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Work experience and expertise:

She started out her professional development as

a youth volunteer with Child Fund Zambia

were for six years she served and worked as a

child and youth mobilizer, she worked as a

counselor and mobile drama group youth

leader for Kafue District Health Medical

Office and was later employed as youth and

OVC coordinator for Pride Community

Health Organization where she worked for

four years before joining Center for

Environmental Justice on part time bases as a

community and engagement officer and

established Youth 2 Youth Zambia in 2013

due to her passion and commitment to youth

development and welfare.

2nd Director- Georgina Mabezere

The Programmes Director is an insurer by

profession and studies at Zambia insurance

college trust. She is passionate about youth

governance and the environment. She has vast

Knowledge on environment, governance and

insurance.


Excellent spoken and written English, Good

communication and facilitation skills, business

mined and good resource mobilization ability

and skills.

Ability to work with a team or sole and is

efficient and effective at delivering of planned

activities.


Worked for Business Solutions Insurance

Brokers as Administration and Finance

Manager for two (2) years. Worked for

Zambia Environmental Exposition for Three

(3) years as a Program Coordinator, worked for

Environmental and Climate Change Youth

Initiative for two (2) years as youth coordinator

and worked as Programmes Coordinator for

Youth Bridge Foundation Zambian chapter

for one (1) year six months and joined the

Youth 2 Youth Zambia initiative.


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OTHER KEY PERSONAL:

The Grants and Operations manager

Is on consultative bases – Dr Chris Abrahams

Mlelemba is a medical doctor by profession

who studied at the University of Cape Town in

South Africa and University of London

(London school of Tropical Medicine).

Among his attributes are:

Public health and executive program

development, strategic planning, monitoring

and evaluation, implementation and

management expert. Ten (10) years ongoing

clinical research field experience, public health

policy and program management experience,

and capacity building the field of HIV/AIDS,

Malaria, and TB. Significant experience in

international health and development with

Global Fund, Partnership of Bill and Melinda

Gates /Merck and Government of Botswana

and technical support for national AIDS control

program at the ministry of Health in three

countries.

Excellent written and spoken English,

exceptional communication, presentation and

interpersonal skills. Solid track record in

reaching or exceeding set goals and objectives,

conception and analytical skills. Excellent

motivational leadership, coaching, negotiation,

change management and team building skills.

Computer fluency in internet use, word

processing, spread sheet, basic statistical

applications and advanced statistical software

including SPSS and STATA.

Ability to work in isolation, under pressure and

with minimal supervision. Special networking

and interaction skills to support national

governments or non-governmental organization

in challenging, muti national and multi-cultural

environments.


Worked as senior technical advisor for World

Health Organization for three (3) years,

worked as Monitoring and evaluation manager

for Namibian Global Fund for almost three

(3) years,Worked as Chief of Party and

Country Director for CDC Global AIDS

Program in George Town Guyana for two (2)

years six (6) months and worked as a study

physician /site manager (molepolole), HIV

research, training care and support at Botswana

Harvard AIDS Institution Partnership, Harvard

school of public health.

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

recruitment is still underway and the

organization has engaged a Communications

Specialist who studied at the university of

Zambia – Caritus Chambo to help out where

need arises.

She works for Zambia Center for

Communication (ZCCP) as a project

coordinator on a USAID founded project for


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southern province. She worked as a

communications and data Clark for ZCCP head

office and as a radio analyst at Mono radio

station in Kasama

The Communications, Information and

Technology Officer- Tapson Sibande is a

technician and media personnel directing a

media based company Mfumu HD

Among his attributes:

He is artist, innovate and create, is excellent at

the use of media communications and good

with computer systems management and

graphics, self-motivated and is reliant. Effect

and delivers creative communicative

campaigns.


He has worked on media campaigns for brands

such as AIRTEL, ZAMTEL and ZICTA.

Has developed short videos, movies and short

musical videos for local artist and media

campaigns for several organizations including

Youth 2 Youth Zambia. He is a professional

photographers and graphic designer.

The stipulated below are the departments and

officers to be engaged.

Empowerment and Entrepreneurship

Officer - Lombe Tembo studied under the

University of Zambia. She is passionate about

entrepreneurship and social enterprise.


She is focused, dependable and is goal-driven.

She is self-motivated and a quick learner who

is able to work effectively with minimal

supervision.

She can work in a team, as well as without

supervision. In addition she possess

exceptional communication and Interpersonal

skills


She worked as an enumerator and data entry

controller on the end-line survey on school

safety and health evaluation of the TAAAC.

(Tisunge Ana Athu Akazi Coalition)

programme in schools. She later joined Besko

Marketing and Consulting Limited where she

worked as a Logistics Economist and has been


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working with the World Bank on part time

bases as a data entry operator.

She has vast experience and has participated in

several conventions and conferences including

World Forum on Human Rights (Marrakesh,

Morocco), Beyond2015 CSO Conference

(Copenhagen, Denmark), First Global Forum

on Youth Policies (Baku, Azerbaijan), 69th

United Nations General Assembly (New York,

USA) and Sixth African Youth and

Governance Conference.

Youth Capacity Development Officer-

Racheal Chilengi studied with the University

of Zambia and is able to articulate youth

development issues as well as work towards

solutions


She is goal-driven. She is self-motivated and a

team player who is able to work effectively

with minimal supervision.

She has excellent communication skills and

poses effect report writing and presentation

skills.

In addition she is passionate and committed to

working with youths and children she possess

exceptional interpersonal skills


She has acquired experience in working with

youth and children as she has worked on

various projects as a profession and a

volunteer. She has worked for Zambia nation

youth population council as a research and data

collection assistant. She has worked for youth

bridge foundation as a programs coordinators

assistant.

International Affairs and Fundraising

Manager

Studied Bachelor of Science, International

Relations, 2012, Central Connecticut State

University, New Britain, CT and has Master of

Science, Historic Preservation, 2014, Roger

Williams University, Bristol, RI.


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Among her attributes:

She is an Enthusiastic person, has experience

engaging professional with multicultural

supporting and enhancing global programs

within challenging environments.

Has High-level internships and hands-on

volunteer work experience impacting large-

scale organizations. Is a Collaborative

communicator with established relationships

across multiple NGOs and INGOs across

Africa.


She has vest experience in managing projects

and resource mobilization she worked at the

International Institute of Connecticut,

Bridgeport, CT as an Immigration Officer and

for Louisiana as a Grant Management. She

later worked as a Disaster and Project

Coordinator, Landmarks Society, New Orleans,

LA and as an Archival Documentation

Preservation Oklahoma (POK), Oklahoma

City, OK. State Historic Preservation Office of

Oklahoma (SHPO), Oklahoma City, OK,

Architectural Historian. She is currently

serving as a Member, Board of Directors,

STANTON DAVID HOMESTEAD, and

Stonington, CT.

Organization’s Accountant recruitment is still

underway and the organization has engaged a

qualified ACCA accountant to help manage the

accounts and organizations operation on

consultative bases.

The organization has also begun the

recruitment of program officers for the other

departments’ i.e. the Tourism and

Environmental Officer and the Sexual

Reproductive and Health Education Officer in

charge of the implementation and management

of the various projects the organization is

engaged in. We have also expanded our

recruitment to include volunteers that will work

alongside the officers on the projects in every

department.

The organization has a mandate to have

member organizations and individual young

entrepreneurs affiliated to it. This will allow it

to effectively implement its mandates and has

initiated a process to select its working

association and individual affiliates.


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KEY CONTACTS DETAILS:

Youth 2 Youth Zambia

Plot 32 Bwinijifumu Road, Roads Park

Lusaka Zambia

PO BOX 360070


Tel:+260 955 677 064

The Country Program Director

Ms. Auxiria Mwanza

Plot 11056 Chiti Muku Road

Matero

Lusaka, Zambia.


Tel:+260 974 864 319

The Programmes Director

Mrs. Georgina Mabezere

Plot 19143, 8th Street Kabwata

Lusaka, Zambia.


Tel:+260 966 677 064

Youth 2 Youth Headquarters

Youth 2 Youth in Zimbabwe

C/o Chitungwiza Arts Centre

Stand No. 12093 Hadzina Hanga

Dzapasi Road Chitungwiza


Tel:+263 773 848 321

The Country President

Ms. Catharine Musanda

C/o Chitungwiza Arts Centre

Stand No. 12093

Harare, Zimbabwe.


Tel:+263773848321

International Affairs and Fundraising

Manager

Youth 2 Youth Headquarters Zimbabwe

13208 Turtle Pond Court Oklahoma City

Unite States of America.

Email:[email protected]

Tel: +1 (405) 313 9426


Tel:+260%20955%20677%20064


Tel:+260%20974%20864%20319


Tel:+260%20966%20677%20064



Tel:+263773848321

Tel:+26076243320

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