Youth Na PowerInitiative Zambia

Our work

Leadership trainings, webinars, masterclasses, and topical sessions, delivered where young people already are: campuses, communities, and now refugee settlements.

What we work on

Since our inception we have delivered leadership trainings, webinars, masterclasses, and topical sessions across six core thematic areas.

01

Peacebuilding

Dialogue, leadership, and community action that make peace a daily, practical reality among young people.

02

Capacity Building

Trainings, masterclasses, and mentorship that turn potential into practical skills young people can use.

03

Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights

Access to quality SRHR information and services, so every young person can make informed choices.

04

Mental Health

Safe spaces, awareness, and peer support that put young people's wellbeing at the center.

05

Climate Change

Climate justice education and youth-driven action for the communities most affected.

06

Youth Empowerment & Gender Equality

Entrepreneurship, innovation, and equal opportunity, with young women supported to lead.

Young people attending a Youth Na Power training session in a classroom

Our pilot program and key discovery

From August to December 2025, we ran a pilot program in Ndola delivering innovation and entrepreneurship seminars and workshops for young people.

Through this work we identified a critical gap: displaced and refugee youth in our communities wanted access to the same opportunities but were being excluded. We responded by actively encouraging their participation in our activities, and this discovery is now shaping our strategic direction.

Young people holding Sustainable Development Goals boxes and balloons on the steps of a community hall

Our strategic expansion

No young person shut out of opportunity

Our 2025 pilot in Ndola revealed a critical gap: displaced and refugee youth wanted access to the same opportunities but were being excluded. We responded by opening our activities to them, and this discovery now shapes our strategic direction.

Today we are expanding into the Meheba and Mayukwayukwa refugee settlements, building 50/50 hubs where host-community and refugee youth learn and build ventures together. Through our Two Hands family framework, we work directly with parents and relatives to make sure young women can join, stay, and complete our programs.

Genuine peace requires genuine inclusion.

Strategic partnership

Working with the National Youth Development Council

Our long-term alliance with the National Youth Development Council (NYDC) Zambia grew out of our pilot supporting young entrepreneurs. Together we are connecting displaced youth directly to commercial networks, enterprise training resources, and market opportunities. This alliance is bridging the social and economic divide between marginalized refugee youth and host-community networks.

Youth Na Power delegates seated with partners at a national youth conference

We don't build potential. We unlock it.

Young people already carry the ideas, the drive, and the creativity to change their communities. What's missing isn't ability. It's access. When you partner with us, you are not funding a program. You are investing in a generation that is already capable and simply needs the door held open.

Partner with us. Fund a training. Open a door.