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Youth Wellness

Origin language: English
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Target population
Adults (18+) , +1
Beneficiaries3001 - 10K
EvidenceBoth
Start date2025/01
End date2027/12
StagePilot project/testing/trials
Country
Zimbabwe
Coverage
National
Nb of implementation sites
6
Lead organization
Implementation partners

Health Focus Area
Sexual and Reproductive Health
Mental health
Services
Community-based information systems
Electronic medical record
Enabling technologies
Big Data Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Standards
CDA - Clinical Document Architecture
Tools
N/A
Funding sources
Government funds
Donors
Business model
No business model
Funders
Summary
Our project aims to provide integrated skills training, mental health support, and sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services, ensuring that young people not only survive but thrive. It targets 1,300 vulnerable adolescents and young people, with the goal of improving their employability, income, health, and livelihood security. Additionally, the initiative seeks to enhance knowledge and access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV information and services. By 2026, we will document and disseminate insights on the correlations between economic strengthening and SRH and HIV interventions. The primary health focus areas are Sexual and Reproductive Health and Mental Health, with adolescents and young adults as the target population.
Keywords
Mental health
Publications
Insights - Lessons learnt
Challenges
The project faces both technical and structural challenges, including weak alignment between training content and local labour market demand, limited facilitator capacity in enterprise development, inadequate mentorship and follow-up support, low literacy and foundational skills among participants, and weak monitoring systems to track long-term income outcomes. Structurally, youth face restricted access to start-up capital, limited linkages to formal markets and financial institutions, gender and stigma-related barriers, and broader economic constraints such as high competition and low purchasing power.
Recommendations
Addressing these requires conducting labour market assessments prior to training, strengthening facilitator and mentorship capacity, embedding financial literacy and savings mechanisms, improving longitudinal monitoring through integrated MIS platforms, formalizing partnerships with private sector and government youth employment schemes, and incorporating psychosocial resilience and gender-responsive approaches to enhance sustainability and impact.
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iDHA (Project ID)
2emrp0
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Origin of information
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Added to the platform on
2026-02-12
Project editors
Last update by
Lonjezo Gandaumanje on 2026-02-12
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