OUR VISION

OUR VISION:-


To be a World Class NGO that would provide a platform for creating awareness among youths with a view to promoting socio-economic and political development with the involvement of local and global partners that would engineer change through the provision of social services such as education, healthcare, entrepreneurial-skills, grassroots orientation of stakeholders and the overall empowerment of youths in nigerian and beyond.

OUR STRATEGIES:-

REYNET SEEKS TO ADOPT THE FOLLOWING STRATEGIES IN PURSUANT TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ITS OBJECTIVES.

Broaden the participatory process for sustainable development through inclusion of the youths through awareness campaigns, conferences, seminars or Focused Group Discussion:
Promote, enhance & support youth participation through empowerment, capacity building and youth support services such as skills-specific training, exchange of ideas,
Identify current & emerging issues for young people; create opportunities for collaboration and exchange information.
Initiate town hall meetings to the needs of rural communities with a view to identifying critical needs of the people.
To forge partnership with local, State, national and global development partners to provide social services such as health, education and portable water.
Identify skills and competences that are in short supply with a view to taking deliberate steps to train youths in those areas of needs to facilitate the delivery of services. 


SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES:-

i. Young professionals programmes:-
The Young Professionals Programmes provides Reynet member with guidance and support in the establishment of a young professionals network, including identifying the best approach for their individual needs and situation. 

ii. Youth leadership programmes:-
Think for a moment about the successful leaders you know.
Chances are they all have one quality in common - the ability to communicate effectively.
It is important that people develop this ability early in life so that they may successfully meet the challenges of adulthood and leadership.

The Youth Leadership Programme (YLP) helps young people develop their communication and leadership skills so that they may become tomorrow’s leaders in business, industry and community.
The course is conducted by our members as part of our community programme.
PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAMME
The Youth Leadership Programme is based on the belief that every young person has the potential to become a good communicator and leader, but the potential needs to be developed. The programme’s unique design enables participants to develop this potential through practical experience. Participants learn speaking and leadership skills that they will use for the rest of their lives.

They learn to:- Overcome their nervousness, when asked to speak before an audience, organize and present their ideas logically and convincingly, listen carefully to others’ ideas, offer advice that will help others improve their speaking & leadership skills, participate and even lead group discussions or meetings.

iii. Mainstreaming of cross cutting issues such as gender, health, HIV/AIDS, Poverty, Programmes;-

In its cross-cutting approach, REYNET focuses on Gender Equity, Employment Generation, HIV/AIDS. These factors are the key elements in fighting poverty and providing sustainable development in Bayelsa State.
Poverty in Africa is to the great extent a Gender Equity issue. Successive studies have shown that over 70 percent of the region's poor live in rural areas, the majority of whom are women and girls. Gender balance in a Community or state helps increase women's productivity, broaden their access to health, education services, information thus helping to promote social cohesion and helping transport contribution to poverty alleviation. This is the key message that shapes REYNET' future work on gender mainstreaming under its Long Term Development Plan (LTDP).
One of the key factors of pervasive poverty in a Community in the African Context is the high unemployment rate in most African countries and the relatively low wage earned by most workers. Employment generation and the assurance of a fair wage are therefore areas that should be of concern to every development initiative, whether such an initiative has a main focus on policy development or on the delivery of infrastructure and services.
Even though Africa does not have the highest absolute numbers in traffic injuries, traffic-related mortality rate per capita in Sub-Saharan Africa is the highest in the world at 28.3 deaths per 100,000 of population. Almost 1% of population gets injured in traffic-related accidents in Africa every year. The main challenge is to get all these components to work together.
Findings of international studies of the HIV/AIDS pandemic at work places suggest that, the transport sector is a major vector for the disease. The reason is simple, People working in the transport sector are mobile, they spend weeks and months away from their families and their homes and many satisfy their sexual needs “on the road.” Migration, short-term or long-term, increases opportunities for sexual relationships with multiple partners, transforming transport routes to critical links in the propagation of HIV/AIDS. Recognizing the negative impacts the pandemic is having on Africa's development efforts, REYNET intends to engage its partners' to roll back the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Bayelsa and on the African continent, in policy discussions as well as in operations.
The emerging rift between development and environment in Africa is that, contrary to industrialized countries were wealth is at the root of environmental destruction, poverty in Africa is the main factor that threatens environment and the sources of livelihood.



iv. Youth Work, Education & Training (YOWET):-

Youth work is community support activity aimed at older children and adolescents. Depending upon the culture and the community, different services and institutions may exist for this purpose. Youth work is the process of creating an environment where young people can engage in informal educational activities. Different varieties of youth work include centre-based work, detached work, school-based work and religion based work. Youth work is any activity that seeks to engage young people in coordinated programs, including those that are recreational, educational, or social by nature and design.

v. Governance, Development and the Youth initiatives, including empowerment:-

Develop a national youth policy and action plan for priority action ensuring that other sectoral policies (education, health, employment, energy, environment, etc.) integrate the national youth policy, and are responsive to the needs and aspirations of youth.

• Promote coordination, collaboration and networking among all stakeholders, including international aid groups, the private sector and the Diaspora, through the creation and management of youth empowerment fund for sustained technical and financial support in the design, implementation and evaluation of a national youth programme of action in partnership with a lead agency experienced and involving the Government, local partners and CBOs.

• Establish, strengthen and support youth council at national, district and local levels, ensuring their participation and representation in all structures of leadership, governance and management.

• Institute and support multiservice training and enterprise development centres at the national and district levels for promoting the employability of youth and youth entrepreneurship by engaging the private sector, and support microcredit and financing through the development of youth-led associations/cooperatives for youth enterprises.

• Develop a National/State Youth Volunteers scheme, placing recent graduates in line Ministries, Embassies, UN offices and private offices providing an opportunity for work experience for students.

• Promote research and documentation, and serve as a repository for data on the status of youth with appropriate qualitative and quantitative indicators, in collaboration with international development partners.


vi. Youth enterprise & Sustainable Livelihood (YESLI) Programmes:-

A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assests (including both material and social resources) and activities required for a means of living. A livelihood is sustainable when it can cope with and recover from stresses and shocks and maintain or enhance its capabilities and assets both now and in the future, while not undermining the natural resource base.

 vii. Partnerships at all levels:-

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