ASRHR
Adolescents and youths require utmost good health physically, mentally and socially in relation to their sexual development, relationships and reproductive health. We conduct reproductive health education, linkage to reproductive health services, social behavior change and advocacy to create enabling environments.
Youth Economic Epowerment
We provide career development mentorship in schools, craft skills like matt making, sandals making, Business management, computer literacy training, Modern farming to adolescents, youth and families.
HIV Prevention
Homabay experiences high HIV/AIDs infection among adolescents and young people and this leaves many young people at risk of infection in the community. We innovate and implement ideas geared to prevent spread of HIV and adherence and retention ART care and treatment in the community.
SGBV and Gender Norms
Community led actions combined with national and global advocacy and structural change can lead to change accelerated good work geared towards combating gender – based violence. We implement community led advocacy and social behavior change to support reduce GBV and reduce social norms and believes that hinder youths from access justice and services in the community.
Youth-Friendly Services
We work with local government, NGOs and other partners to create youth-friendly healthcare and services in the rural and peri urban communities of Homabay.
- Conduct youth community mobile health clinics.
- Community health mobile clinics
- Linkage to health services with our community health volunteers.
Leadership, Accountability and Governance
Good governance is considered a core component of resilient health systems, and while governments are the primary drivers of governance, non-state actors – from practitioners to civil society – are critical in making sure that health systems achieve goals of improved health status, improved health system responsiveness to people’s expectations, and reduced financial risk to users of the health system.
Our Current Projects
Adolescent 360
Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (ASRHR) project targeting older and married adolescents (15-19) years...
Dreams Project Phase 2.
The project addressed the individual and societal barriers of access to services and justice and worked to ensure that...
Puk Iyier Research Study
We are conducting an exploratory study understand a new phenomenon known as Puk Iyier (dispose and choose)...
DESIP
Delivering equitable and sustainable increases family Planning
About Us
CYAN Kenya is a registered youth led Community Based Organization established in February 2016 as youth group in Suba and later formally registered in May 2019 under the ministry of Gender, Children and social services.
We ensure Adolescents and young people have the autonomy, knowledge, and community support to make critical decisions about their health, education, professions, sexuality, relationships and marriage.