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Emmanuel Dennis


Title and Organization:		Country Coordinator, YES Kenya Network
Gender and Age:		Male, 28
Country of Residence:		Kenya
Country of Birth:		Kenya
Nationalities:		Kenyan
Citizenships:		Kenya
Languages:		Swahili , English



Website:		http://www.yesweb.org
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About Me

PROFILE:
EMMANUEL DENNIS NGONGO
Emmanuel Dennis Ngongo is from Kenya. He has vast experience in Youth and Community Development work gained from a number of organizations he has worked with for four years, and numerous volunteer Opportunities. He has been an outstanding youth leader since the year 1995 in leading advocacy work for children and youth in Kenya to becoming a national chairman of the Youth Employment Summit Network and as Country Coordinator, a volunteer position. He is a fellow on a long distant online degree study in Development and Management studies. Emmanuel was appointed by the Executive Director of YES Campaign as the Country Coordinator in August 2006. He will volunteers his time to leading the network in
1. Administering the management of the Country Network in Kenya.
2. Organizing for National and International activities.
3. Official spokesperson
4. Oversee all the campaign activities in Kenya.
5. Initiate partnerships and collaborations for the benefit of sustainable development for the youth in Kenya.

Experience
1994 Joined the Kenya Red Cross Society and became a life Member
- Represented the youth in the Executive Committee as a Youth Motivator 1998.
- Participated in an International Youth Camp Mombassa 1997
- Trained in First Aid, Community Based Health Care, Disaster Preparedness and Management, Tracing and Youth Leadership.
- Developed the Nairobi Branch Youth Strategy on Peer Education
- Offering technical and advisory services to the youth department.
- Development of the Youth Project Management Plan & the Peer Education Program 2005.
- Advisory services to the Youth Department.
- Creating Linkages and Partnership with other relief/Humanitarian agencies.
- Responding to Disasters.

1995 Joined the Kenya Alliance for Advancement of Children (KAACR) rights advocacy for children and youth.
1998 Attached to the Straight Talk Adolescents Peer counseling group under the Kenya Association of Professional Counselors.
· Straight Talk Editorial Board Member in Production of the Straight Talk Magazine.
· Attended a regional Counseling Conference 2000
· Attended the 2nd International Counseling Conference Safari Park Hotel.

2000 Founded the Child Rights Defenders Movement (CRDM), a rights advocacy youth movement in Kenya.
2000 Attended Kenya Utalii College Hospitality and Hotel Management Course.
Joined the Global Alliance on Youth Employment online participation.
2002 Joined Kenya Alliance for Advancement of Children (KAACR) as a field Programme Officer for Kuria District. In charge of three Projects namely; Promoting Education for All, Building the Capacities of Youth Organizations and Promoting the Elimination of Negative Cultural Practices. Created partnerships with various Organizations and partners.

Major Accomplishments
- A strong Movement of Boys and Girls (Child Rights Clubs) against FGM and NCP’s established in more than 50 schools in the District.
- A strong District Youth Council Established and functional to the Location and Sub location Level.
- A Functional Child Rights Monitoring Unit Established through the Teacher Facilitators and Role Models from the Community and the Church, Provincial Administration and Local Authority.
- Developed Concept Papers and Proposals for implementation.
- Helped to Develop a Successful Girl Child Empowerment Program/ Alternative Rite of Passage.
- Facilitated trainings on Rights Based Programming, Legal Rights and Protection of Children, Education for All Goals, Project Cycle Management, Budget tracking, Resource mobilization and Proposal Writing, Guidance and Counseling, HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health.
- A member of the District Education Board under the Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSP), Area Advisory Council (AAC), Youth Council & District Health Committee
- One Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Center Established and fully operational.
- More children can now access education through High Enrolment and Retention rates.
- Child Rights Programming adopted in all aspects of school curriculum implementation.
- Child reproductive health rights awareness is high in the community.

2002 Lead efforts to establish YES Kenya Country Network with other Youth Leaders from Kenya

Attended the 1st Global Summit on Youth Employment in Alexandria Egypt.
2003 Represented Kenya and Africa in an advocacy and fundraising campaign through petitioning the Canadian Government to increase its Official Developments Assistance, Review its HIV/AIDS strategy and Debt Relief for Developing Countries under the auspices of the United Church of Canada (UCC) to the Canadian Parliament. More than 7 million dollars were raised to go towards helping international partners in the work of HIV/AIDS.
2004 Attended the 2nd Global Youth Employment Summit Veracruz Mexico.
Attended a partner’s workshop on Gender mainstreaming from a rights based approach in Education under the Commonwealth Education Fund (CEF)

General

· Knowledge of NGOs and International Organizations an advantage
Through both travel and work Emmanuel has gained extensive experience and knowledge of Working in NGOs and International Organisations.

Emmanuel has gained immense lobbying and advocacy techniques after the most effective advocacy and fundraising activity in Toronto and Ottawa Canada March 2004 involving Canadian members of Parliament in the Beads of Hope Campaign.

Meetings with government officials and Civil Society and Private Sector representatives for the last two years has given him the opportunity to discuss government reforms on employment issues and put in perspective experiences gained whilst working as a chair of the Youth employment summit – Kenya Country Network since 2002.

Through KAACR he has immensely structured community response initiative on the abuse of the rights of children and improvement of performance in education at primary and secondary level in the community.
He has kept a breast of developments within community and involvement of Youth in issues affecting local people around the world, including the use of information technology to share best practice in organisations from the first and the developing world.

His ability to mobilise resources and personnel in the community to come up with advocacy initiatives geared towards alleviating their livelihoods through adopting Rights based Approaches has worked positively to the advantage of the communities especially the youth who are more adoptive and flexible.

Since the inception of YES Kenya, Emmanuel has been actively involved in organising for strategic meetings, workshops and trainings that have seen the YES Kenya network come of age to even host the third global summit.

Emmanuel’s biggest challenge has been to bring the Kenyan youth to the fore of alleviating their plight through proactive and sustained actions that gear towards livelihoods development. Having been appointed as the Country Coordinator for YES Kenya, Emmanuel sees a society where the youth shall no longer be marginalized on issues affecting them. “I want to foster positive sensibilities among the youth by developing a new kind of leadership in Kenya that will stand the taste of time and through the actions be replicated elsewhere in the world. Through meeting other leaders within the youth employment campaign, I have been able to reflect back and find a comfort zone within the youthful leaders that are ready to take the world leadership to the next level. I will not rest until I see that kind of leadership…. That will respect the course of humanity, that will take care of future generations and that will be sensitive to the increasing needs of all generations”.

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