Factsheet: Youth organisations in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean youths make up more than half of the country’s population, according to the national statistical agency Zimstats.

Programmes targeting this demographic section is largely coordinated by the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Development and Vocational Training (MYEDVT).

The ministry’s mandate includes youth policy formulation and implementation, development and as well as empowerment to achieve sustainable and equitable development. According to Zimbabwe’s Constitution, youths are grouped between 18 and 35 years. This is a factsheet on some of the country’s organisations dealing with youth affairs.

1. Zimbabwe Youth Council

Focus areas: Serves Zimbabwe’s young people through creating platforms for youth empowerment and participation.
Address: 6th Floor Coalhouse, Corner. Nelson Mandela Avenue and Park Street, Harare
Email: [email protected]

2. National Association of Youth Organisations

Focus areas: Umbrella body of youth organisations working in Zimbabwe addressing challenges faced by youths.
Contacts: +263 8644121604
Email: [email protected]

3. Students and Youth Working on Reproductive Health Action Team (SAYWHAT)

Focus areas: youth reproductive health
Address: 24 Jefferson Road, Logan Park, Hatfield, Harare
Contacts: +263 242 571184, 571190, +263 772 146 247/9, +263 782702 886

4. Institute for Young Women’s Development

Focus area: Girls and young women’s rights
Address: 570 Hay Street, Bindura
Contacts: +263 785 651 276, +263 718 290 301
Email: [email protected]

5. Youth Advocates Zimbabwe

Focus areas: Advocacy, skills training, child and human rights education, referral services for young women and girls
Address: 926 New Zengeza 4, Chitungwiza
Contacts: +263 777 469 107

6. Ignite Youth Organisation

Focus area – Skills training, career coaching, building emotional and mental health, girls empowerment
Address: Avondale, Harare
Contacts: +263 787 360 337, +263 772418652
Email: [email protected]

7. Young Women’s Forum for Good Governance

Focus areas: Child and youth rights, peace and security
Address: 134 Herbert Chitepo, Mutare
Contacts: +263 776 778 368
Email: [email protected]

8. Youth Alive

Focus areas: Promoting peace through educational interventions in communities
Address: 27, 10th Avenue, Mutare
Contacts: +263 20 62530
Email: [email protected]

9. Youth for Peace and Development

Focus areas: Conflict prevention, youth development, peace education, human rights, dialogue and mediation
Address: 58 Greendale Avenue, Greendale, Harare
Contacts: +263 715 793 814, +263 782 049 797
Email: [email protected]

10. Youth Empowerment and Transformation Trust (YETT)

Focus areas: conflict prevention and early warning, peace education, transitional justice and reconciliation
Address: 7 Capri Road, Highlands, Harare
Contacts: +263 242 496889

11. Youth Empowerment Satellite Organisation (YESO)

Focus area: Youth empowerment
Address: PO Box 561 Nyika Masvingo
Contacts: +263 773 548 894
Email: [email protected]

12. Mwanasikana Wanhasi

Focus area: Empowerment of young girls
Address: 24 Van Praagh Road, Milton Park, Harare
Contacts: +263 774 666 401
Email: [email protected]

13. Tag a Life International (TaLI)

Focus areas: girls and young women’s rights, education, peace, gender-based violence, sexual reproductive health rights
Address: 52 Glamorgan Road, Belvedere, Harare
Contacts: +263 242 782264

14. Restless Development

Focus areas: Supporting young people to be leaders
Address: 1 Adyllin, Marlborough, Harare
Contacts: +263 242 300811/19
Email: [email protected]

15. Dot Youth Zimbabwe

Focus areas: Youth empowerment, health promotion
Address: Mzilikazi Youth Centre, Bulawayo
Contacts: +263 773 380 694
Email: [email protected]

16 Youth Initiative for Democracy in Zimbabwe (YIDEZ)

Focus areas: Youth empowerment, conflict prevention
Contacts: 6 Armagh Rd, Eastlea, Harare

17. Education Matters

Focus areas: Youth education and employment creation
Address: 23 Connaught Rd, Avondale
Contacts: +263 8677111889
Email: [email protected]

18. Young People’s Programme Zimbabwe

Focus areas: youth empowerment
Address: 66 Jason Moyo Ave, Harare
Contacts: +263 774 099 571

19. Regional Network of Children and Young People Trust

Focus areas: Sexual and reproductive health and rights, girls and young women’s empowerment, child and youth participation in governance
Address: 3I Field Road, Mabelreign, Harare
Contacts: +263 242 331 630, +263 867 7106 728
Email: [email protected]

20. Youth for Life Zimbabwe Trust

Focus areas: Sexual and reproductive health rights, ending child marriages
Address: 1 Torwood Community Hall, Redcliff
Contacts: +263 776 799 169
Email: [email protected]

21. Youth Engage

Focus areas: Youth Advocacy
Address: 30 St Patrick’s Road, Hatfield, Harare
Contacts: +263 772 327 027
Email: [email protected]

22. Simuka Africa

Focus areas: youth empowerment, ending child marriages
Address: 3974 Ngoni Township Norton
Contacts: +263 772 419 312
Email: [email protected]

23. Hope for Adolescents and Youth

Focus areas: youth empowerment
Address: 618 New Adyllin, Westgate, Harare
Contacts: +263 242 313293

24. Child and Youth Care Zimbabwe

Focus areas: Health, children and youth with rare diseases
Address: 3 Sable Street, Mandara, Harare
Contacts: +263 777 510370
Email: [email protected]

25. My Age

Focus areas: Empowering girls and young women
Address: 7 Capri Rd Highlands, Harare15 Flametree Road, Rhodene, Masvingo
Contacts: +263 39 226 1452
Email: [email protected]

26. Magna Youth Action Group

Focus areas: Empowerment, education and advocacy for the betterment of all youths in Africa and beyond
Address: 90 Scott Rd, Hatfield, Harare
Contacts: +263 717 074 649, +263 775 892 124

27. Zimbabwe Vulnerable Empowerment Trust

Focus areas: Bring human dignity and self‐sustained empowered youths in communities
Address: 23C Maribou Close Rd, Tynwald, Harare, Zimbabwe
Contacts: +263 773432834, +263 777 546 787

28. Shamwari Yemwanasikana

Focus areas: Empowerment and advocacy for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Address: 5 Chesterfield Road, Avonlea, Harare
Contacts: Toll Free: 08010134
Email: [email protected]

29. Orbit International Youth Organisation

Focus areas: Youth empowerment, skills building, advocacy, training on conflict sensitive programming
Contacts: +263 773 860 960
Email: [email protected]

30. Young Journalists Association of Zimbabwe (YOJA)

Focus areas: Focusing on capacity building for young journalists
Contacts: +263 777 945 142

31. Journalism Students Network of Zimbabwe

Focus areas: Mentorship for student journalists
Contacts: +263 774 401 384
Email: [email protected]

32. Youth Decide Zimbabwe

Focus areas: Enhancing young people’s full participation in governance process
Contacts: +263 714 112 932
Email: [email protected]

Sources:

https://www.zimbabweyp.com/category/Youth_Organizations/city:Harare