Get to know us
About Respekt
Understanding the mission, the challenge, and the change we seek.
The Challenge
Why we exist
In schools across Kenya, young boys and girls are unable to access sexual and reproductive health services — despite their right to do so as entrenched in the Kenyan constitution.
Young women and children continue to suffer in the hands of healthcare practitioners and quacks who claim that female genital mutilation done in the hospital is safer than that done in traditional settings.
Lack of sexual and reproductive health awareness among the youth contributes to unwanted pregnancies, STIs, and HIV infections. Teenage pregnancies are associated with adverse outcomes such as unsafe abortion, obstructed labour, fistulas, and death.
Efforts to address these issues have been made by the national government, namely in the creation of the Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development Policy in 2003, aimed at improving reproductive health and the quality of life among Kenyan adolescents and youth.
Our focus
The Overall Objectives of Project RESPEKT
Encourage critical self-reflection on the differences between being a young boy or girl in Kenya today.
Provide knowledge on the availability of local healthcare services as well as relevant local actors that can provide the youth with healthcare services.
Create safe spaces where the youth can discuss sexual and reproductive health issues without fear of discrimination or embarrassment.
Empower the targeted youth to be aware of and defend their human rights to health as propagated in the Sustainable Development Goals.
Where we're headed
Our Goals
We're obsessive about knowledge transfer. Whenever we develop a unique solution, we turn it into measurable impact.
Evidence-based impact report
To produce an evidence-based impact report on our research results.
Certified SRHR curriculum
Inclusion of a certified SRHR curriculum in high schools in Kenya.
Youth advocacy
To advocate for SRHR on behalf of the Kenyan youth.