About Us - CYECE
​The Centre for Youth Empowerment and Civic Education (CYECE) works to promote children’s rights, youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and youth empowerment through capacity building, advocacy, community mobilization and communication for positive social change. We value transparency and accountability, honesty, commitment and equality and non discrimination.
​Our vision of Malawi is one where children and young people are happy, healthy, and protected.
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CYECE is based in Lilongwe in Area 15, where our main office is located. We also have offices in Dedza and Mangochi. CYECE has programmes across Malawi with community based projects in Lilongwe, Kasungu, Dedza, and Mangochi.

Background
Centre for Youth Empowerment and Civic Education (CYECE) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation established in March 1997. It was formed with the aim of addressing the socio economic development issues affecting children and young people in Malawi.


We work to achieve positive change in three main focus areas, which are Youth Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, Child Rights Protection, and Youth Empowerment.

 In Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights, our programmes and projects do the following:
  • Advocacy for Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Services
  • Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) to young people
  • Community mobilization on harmful sexual and reproductive health practices.
  • Mobilizing young people for SRHR/HIV information and services
  • Facilitating Youth Friendly SRHR outreach services
  • Youth Peer education for HIV/STI prevention
  • Establishing functional community referral and support system for youth SRHR and HIV
  • National level advocacy on SRHR policy
  • Facilitate distribution of SRHR basic commodities to the youth i.e. condoms
  • Mobilizing traditional and religious leaders on increasing young people’s access to SRHR services including young people that are part of the key populations
  • Community mobilization on minority rights focusing on access to SRHR/HIV services
In the area of Child Rights and Protection
  • Community mobilization for child rights
  • Child rights awareness
  • Community campaign against child labour and trafficking
  • Campaign against sexual and gender based violence
  • Support for education services (bursaries, CBE etc)
  • Community mobilization and campaign against child marriages
  • National level advocacy on child rights related issues
  • Complementary Basic Education for children
Youth Empowerment
  • Vocational skills trainings for out of school youth
  • Entrepreneurship trainings
  • Support for Entrepreneurship
  • Youth internship program
  • Life Skills Education
  • Counselling and guidance
  • Job placements for young people
To learn more about what projects CYECE is currently implementing to achieve these goals, check out our current projects page.