AfriYAN’s collective aim is to gather young people from diverse youth-led and youth serving organizations under one umbrella network to increase our advocacy impact and ensure we have a stronger voice in the decision-making that impacts our lives and futures. We seek to create an enabling environment for the promotion of meaningful participation of youth in efforts to eliminate poverty, reduce unemployment, achieve gender equity, respond to HIV, and realize our full sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Founded in 2015, AfriYAN Tanzania is a member of the broader AfriYAN network and was officially registered on 09th January 2017, as to adhere the laws of the country under the NGOs Act No. 24, 2002 as amended in 2005; with the organization registrar number 00NGO/0009006.. AfriYAN Tanzania engages more than 110 youth-led and youth- serving organizational members, who work in 13 regions of Tanzania from Dar es Salaam, Morogoro, Dodoma, Mwanza, Simiyu, Kigoma, Singida, Shinyanga, Mbeya, Songwe, Unguja and Pemba. We have a combined capacity to mobilize over 10,000 youth across Tanzania.
As a youth led organization, AfriYAN demand to play a stronger role in Tanzania’s development and economic future. To realize youth potential, AfriYAN Tanzania has identified 5 strategic objectives for its work including securing sexual and reproductive health and rights including HIV, eliminating gender-based violence, increasing youth participation in decision-making and youth social-economic empowerment, all with a view to achieving the demographic dividend. Our economic empowerment work focuses particularly on building the capacity of marginalized young women and girls and strengthening their entrepreneurship and livelihood skills. Underpinning all our work are core values of gender equity and equality, sustainability, meaningful involvement, transparency and accountability.
