A belief note on Youth Organization for Social Rehabilitation and Economic Empowerment Prifile.
The Tanzania Youth people aged 15-35 comprises 68% of the Tanzania population. These young people are also the most vulnerable in either HIV infection caused by the environment in which they live, learn and as a result of the behavior they adopt as forced to adopt because of social, cultural and economic factors.
The Youth of today will become Tanzania’s work force thinkers and parents. Therefore understanding their knowledge, altitudes and behavior and the challenges they face is critical.
Yosree is assisting in developing focused interventions to appropriately address identified gaps, risk behavior and other challenges.
- OUR VALUES:
The Organization is committed to the following values
- FAIRNESS:
We will work to ensure that our services are non discriminatory and hold the principles of equality at the heart of our work
- INTERGRITY:
The Organization and its staff will practice and advocate integrity in its forms, and all of our activities. We will operate a policy of “Zero Tolerance” on all forms of corruption both internally and externally.
- PHILOSOPHY:
For a help to be effective we must deliver it in systematic manner based on realistic assumption and facts. Thus we need to do some research in order to gauge the extent of the problem involved and how they respond to different changes. Our organization is highly committed to research which we believe to be the only recipe to problem solving perse.
- PROFESSIONALISM:
We will promote and practice a culture where all who come into contact with us are treated with professionalism, courtesy and respect at all times. We will seek to guide, counsel and empower all who are associated with the organization, in all of our activities, we will promote pride by developing a practice based on quality, excellence and professionalism. We will seek consistently to attain and display high standard of reliability efficiency and effectiveness. Thus we welcome those people and partners with varied and practical experience in dealing and service rendering to youth in our organization. Those with interpersonal skills, who are intellectually mature and vested with administrative acumen, knowledgeable with a high sense of responsibility.
- TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
We will be open, transparent and honest. We will communicate clearly all that we do whilst adhering to confidentiality protocols. We will hold ourselves accountable to our actions and to the organization we are serving.
Volunteerism.
Our Organization gives volunteers and intern’s great opportunities to develop their own skills and see the tangible benefits of their work in YOSREE.Our project rely upon the enthusiasm and experience of volunteers from across the world, working under the supervision of our dedicated staffs
- Financial Management Policy
We adhere to financial Act No. 6 of 2004 in its daily recurrent income and expenditure. It is clear from the internal and external audits that we will use funds in accordance with the funding agreement.
- Procurement Policy
Our purchasing policy adheres to purchasing disciplines in respect to procurement Act No. 3 of 2001 and its amendments of No. 21 of 2004 and currently we are guided by the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) policies in procurement dealing but without compromising with the organization policy and protocol.
- GENDER EQUALITY
We will strive to ensure that gender aspects are mainstreamed in all of our interventions and we will assist our customers and partners to see the importance of achieving the set goals.
The organization aim to bring behavior change among youth group in the community and empower them in a co-coordinated manner with high standards for accountability, transparency, quality and impact.
To maximize the impacts of its work the organization will focus on delivering on the following priorities namely: Capacity building to the disadvantaged and marginalized groups in the society, Youth empowerment, Women empowerment, to improve social and economic welfare of HIV/AIDS carriers (victims) , Environmental conservation and management, to have Networking and information sharing between member Organizations and other stakeholders and updating the community on the necessary information as well as strengthening institutional capacity and sustainability of YOSREE.
STRAGIC OBJECTIVES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
- To strengthen policy and legal environments to support provision of education through art orphanages and vulnerable children.
- Capacity building to the disadvantaged and marginalized groups in the society; Youth who are most vulnerable in the society compounded with social and economical frustrations emerged from being unvalued in the society as they lack economic gains and employment.
- Women empowerment.
- To improve social and economic welfare of HIV/AIDS Carriers (victims).
- Environmental Conservation and management.
- To have Networking and information sharing between member organizations and other stakeholders.
- To update the community on the necessary information.
- Strengthening institutional capacity and sustainability of YOSREE.
Reorganizing workshops, theater and exhibitions for youth students at inter school, college and university level
Mobilizing youth students through scouts and girls guides.
Investing in youth
Developing abilities and affirmation of talented youth students through visual art.
Provision of social assistance through material and psychological support of talented youth students whose situation is difficult.
To support OVCs through vocational training and life skills program
Creating positive altitudes and behavior promoted among parents, adolescent and community towards improvement of adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
Counseling both youth students and youth people out of school who are the most vulnerable due to the use of substance abuse , drugs or affected with HIV/AIDS STD’s and assessing the youth needs.
Guiding youth in every step of the way, helping them to navigate in the risk truck towards their adulthood, through various ongoing workshops covering a myriad adoption related topics to address youths concerns and answering question on life changing journey through life skills provision.
Working with partners to influences relevant policies and practices of Government, other NGO’s and donor agencies with primary intention of strengthening youths’ control over their own lives.
Building the capacity at grassroots to youth in form of groups such as star circles CBOs in areas of social mobilization, organizational development and transformation gender, HIV/AIDS, Research and advocacy.
Promoting social Justice, empowerment and participation of the poor in addressing their basic rights, needs and sustainable livelihoods through seed corn money or revolving funds, micro-credit finance, saving internal lending credit and business management among youth people as a gate way to self employment creation.
We welcome any partner, Community based organization (CBO), NGOS, and Donor agencies even Governments to work with us provided you are sympathetic with our vision and mission statements for the betterment of our future generation in Tanzania.
In successfully accomplishment of these strategic objectives YOSREE will make use of the following strategies:
* Develop and implement projects on reproductive health and rights.
* Develop and implement projects on life skills and behavior change communications to marginalized and vulnerable groups of youth, women and community at large.
*Develop and implement projects on gender based violence.
* Design and implement capacity building programs that aim to increase involvement and participation in decision making process.
* Developing and implementing projects on HIV/AIDS.
* Conducting research, develop and publishing its findings and other information communication materials for the purpose of educating and increasing awareness on various issues relating to social and economic development.
* Establish centers for provision of social services such as health and education as part of strategies to compliment Government efforts to fight poverty and improve well being of the people.
* To develop and implement programs pertaining environmental conservation and tourism.
Capacity building to the community on environmental concerns:
- To coordinate research students specialized in Geography and environmental studies.
* To enhance public private relationship and jointly accomplishment of development projects together with National (internal) and International (external) Organizations.To establish partnership and cooperation with an individual or Organizations in or outside a country for the purpose of attaining the Organization objectives.
To purchase/construct and maintain YOSREE buildings and assets.
Recruit and retain competent and qualified human resources as per needs.
To work hand in hand with legal institutions for financial resources management, these are such as PETS (public expenditure tracking system).