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Rights Based Solutions For Systemic Change

We co-create solutions with key stakeholders to solve the unique challenges for:

Adolescence

Young Adulthood

Parenthood

Adult Caregiving

Nia HealthLink

Our
Solutions

At ZanaAfrica, we implement innovative programs designed to support adolescents in Kenya as they navigate puberty and unlock their full potential. Our work spans individual support and systems change, ensuring that our impact reaches all levels of society. We do this through two primary programs:

Nia Learning
Nia HealthLink

Proven Adolescent Health and Life Skills Curriculum

Due to deeply ingrained social taboos, adolescents in Kenya do not receive reproductive health and life skills education in consistent, rights- based ways. This puts them at risk for grooming, sexual assault and other dire situations.

By training teachers and mentors to impart engaging and rights- based health education to adolescents we empower the next generation and catalyse gender justice.

The Nia Learning curriculum was proven in a two- year randomized control trial in Kilifi County, in partnership with the Government of Kenya, Kilifi County Government, Population Council, Plan International and with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

60

of girls drop out of secondary school

25

of girls don’t even make it to secondary school

10

of transactional sex by 15 year olds is for pads

92

of adolescents first sexual encounters are unintended

11.7

Average age of first (unwanted) sex

25

of girls don’t even make it to secondary school

Creating change with and for communities

Nia Learning is an in- person and online training program aimed at empowering communities by scaling ZanaAfrica’s curriculum through various channels. This includes;

Digital Training

Supporting CBOs, teachers, and well- wishers with the tools to deliver health sessions locally.

Zeraki Learning

Providing teacher training and in the future, direct- to- kids learning.

Trainer of Trainers

Facilitating short- term kids’ clubs through partners like Tiko.

Since 2021, this program has reached over 20,000 adolescents.

Explore Our Tools

Ingraining Zana Africa’s curriculum in public schools

ZanaAfrica collaborates with the Kenyan Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) to integrate its curriculum into public schools across subjects for Classes 4- 8.

This initiative aims to equip teachers with the skills to deliver life- changing health education to adolescents, enabling them to take control of their bodies, decisions, and futures. “We will reach 200,000 adolescents by 2026 through this public school initiative.

Nia HealthLink

ZanaAfrica’s commitment to help adolescents know, access and actualize their health and rights, starting with the right to a safe and dignified menstruation is embodied by our real-time digital support tool, Nia HealthLink.

Nia HealthLink provides rights-based reproductive health answers to important questions and connects people to digital and in-person healthcare. This is through a chatbot and a hotline that provides free, real-time answers to reproductive health and rights questions. The Nia HealthLink was based on more than 20,000 anonymous questions about topics like menstruation, consent, bodily changes and more.

Our ambition is to expand access to the Nia HealthLink so that every girl and woman across Kenya, has confidential resources to turn to for support 24 hours a-day, 365-days a week. The Nia HealthLink is just one of the ways that ZanaAfrica is supporting all adolescents and adults to enhance their agency and health outcomes–two critical components of achieving gender equity at scale.