THRIVE
T.H.R.I.V.E. – Teaching Health, Rights, Identity, Voice, and Empowerment (2025–Ongoing)
T.H.R.I.V.E. (Teaching Health, Rights, Identity, Voice, and Empowerment) is a youth-centered initiative implemented by the Hijabi Mentorship Program to strengthen agency, resilience, and opportunity pathways for young people in Kwale County. The initiative is supported by Swahilipot Hub Foundation, Imaginable Futures, and the Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN).
The initiative targets Opportunity Youth (OY) aged 15–30 and Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) aged 14–24 across:
- Matuga
- Kinango
- Shimba Hills
THRIVE was designed in response to persistent barriers facing youth in coastal Kenya, including limited access to youth-friendly SRHR services, early pregnancy, child marriage, economic exclusion, and low access to life-skills and opportunity networks.
The initiative combines SRHR education, adaptive life-skills development, digital inclusion, and institutional strengthening to create safer, more informed, and opportunity-driven pathways for underserved youth.
Key Milestones & Strategic Focus
- Advancing SRHR literacy and youth dialogue spaces through participatory learning sessions focused on:
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Consent and bodily autonomy
- Healthy relationships
- Youth rights and decision-making
reaching at least 300 young people across target communities.
- Equipping 200 youth with foundational life skills through experiential learning on:
- Communication and leadership
- Financial literacy
- Emotional intelligence
- Goal setting and critical thinking
to strengthen resilience and self-reliance.
- Supporting the structured onboarding of 2,000 youth into the Youth Hub Network platform to improve visibility, referrals, and access to opportunities related to employment, education, mentorship, and SRHR services.
- Strengthening THMP’s institutional systems through targeted investments in:
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL)
- Youth safeguarding and risk mitigation
- Digital readiness and infrastructure
- Enhancing safeguarding and accountability mechanisms by integrating updated youth protection protocols, ethical engagement standards, and confidential referral pathways into all project activities.
- Deploying lightweight digital tools for:
- Outcome tracking
- Youth feedback collection
- Activity monitoring
- Data-informed decision-making
to strengthen organizational learning and adaptive programming.
- Expanding THMP’s digital ecosystem through improved productivity systems, secure data management, and strengthened remote engagement capacity to better serve youth in underserved communities.
Strategic Contribution
THRIVE is strengthening youth-centered programming in coastal Kenya by combining rights-based SRHR education, adaptive life-skills development, and institutional resilience within one integrated model.
Beyond service delivery, the initiative seeks to restore agency, dignity, and long-term opportunity pathways for underserved youth while positioning young people as active contributors to healthier, safer, and more inclusive communities.
