Centre for Youth Empowerment and Civic Education (CYECE) is a Non Governmental and not-for-profit organization established in March 1997. It was formed with the aim of addressing the socio-economic development issues affecting young people in Malawi.
Health care
CYECE is working to increase uptake of quality and Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) information and services including HIV prevention among young people in Malawi.
Awareness
Every child has rights too, we try to ensure those rights are protected.
Education
We advocate for youth empowerment through capacity building, advocacy, community mobilization and communication.
CYECE’s development goal calls for Scaling up of interventions and efforts that protect children’s rights, empower young people and promote their health and wellbeing in Malawi.
Events
We envision a society where the voices of tomorrow are heard and valued today. Our organization stands as a steadfast advocate, tirelessly working to ensure that children's rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled. Through our collective efforts, we aim to create an inclusive and nurturing environment that enables young minds to flourish, grow, and thrive.
IAE Facilitators being trained on how to deliver lessons in their respective area for the improvement of the competencies of low literate and semi literate youth and women in rural malawi
Graced with the presence of the T/A Kasumbu on the launch of the program which aims at addressing harmful cultural practices, unwanted pregnancies, and sexual gender base violence.
Building the capacity and empowering girls with new knowledge and skills on ending child marriages, sharing experiences and challenges on ending child marriages, and stimulating the efforts
Agridev Activity with an aim of healthy households, provides lessons and materials to CYECE project beneficiaries to produce and sell SOY MILK
Girls from Chulu primary school engaged in after school activities as one way of reducing Child Labor in tobacco growing area in Malawi.
Community structures including moral duty bearers are aware of the girls SRH and education rights as well as the effects of child marriage/other harmful cultural practices and have created conducive community environment for girls SRHR and education, using Leadership Champions for Change model, capacitated community leader championing efforts against child marriage by collaborating with the various child protection structures at community level.Withdrawal of children from illegal marriages and retention into school is made easy
improving young people’s decision making positions by patronizing youth friendly service provision and seeking quality services, to peers, youth club members, through public awareness meetings parents are exposed to advantages of Youth friendly services information and access to young people and other issues affecting young people which are discussed in youth corners and youth clubs. Now parents allow their children join youth clubs as well as access quality health services through YFHS.
Community Driven Innovation is the next step where staff and community follows to develop, implement and monitor a project together. Setting the scene where staff together with the community identify the problem, vision and intervention to implement so as to address the problem, community driven, the community identify the problem and suggest what should be done…
Enhancing the capacity of project coordinators on results based reporting, Program level challenges, emerging issues and key lessons
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