Resume
Marginalised young people (especially adolescent girls and young women; LGBT+ youth) in the town of Keetmanshoop in southern Namibia face a range of challenges including sexual and other forms of violence, discrimination, expulsion from their homes in some cases, unwanted pregnancies, HIV infection and social exclusion. This intervention will address these problems through the Keetmanshoop Community Inclusion Task Team (CITT): a new approach to system-oriented community development work that centres young people’s civic participation and leadership in constructive ways and enables them to become more visible and connected to key governmental duty bearers and community leaders. While the CITT and local CSOs are at the core of the project, the strategy is to work with and through community leaders (in particular pastors and elders in local churches) and local government duty bearers (police, school system, ombudsman’s office, etc).