Email: info@tyovanu.org | okelloe@tyovanu.org
About Us
Who We Serve
Our focus is wide enough to meet community needs, but intentional enough to protect those who are most vulnerable. We serve:
- Children (0-9 years) who need early support in health and caregiving.
- Adolescents (10-19 years), many of whom face stigma, misinformation, and barriers to SRHR services.
- Young people (20-24 years) navigating HIV prevention, treatment adherence, and transition into adulthood.
- Youth (18 – 30) to champion public policy advocacy for quality, accessible, equitable and responsive children, adolescents, young people and youth friendly services.
- Adolescent girls and young women who often carry the heaviest burdens of inequality.
- Young people living with or affected by HIV.
- Families and caregivers who rely on clear information and trusted referral pathways.
- Village Health Teams, peer educators, and CHWs who anchor community health systems.
- People in high-risk or hard-to-reach communities across the district.
- Cultural, religious, and local government leaders committed to improving youth wellbeing.
Our Vision
A vibrant, empowered, and healthy young population actively shaping their lives and contributing to community wellbeing.
Our Mission
To equip young people and youth-led networks with the skills, mentorship, and platforms they need to lead, advocate, and hold themselves and duty-bearers accountable for lasting community wellbeing.
Core values & Guiding Principles
Accountability and transparency
Inclusive participation and teamwork
Objectivity and non-partisanship
Consensus building
Respect for human rights and diversity
Governance & Leadership
TDYAN YOVANU is guided by a five-member Board of Directors with expertise in public relations, health promotion, policy, and research. A hands-on Executive Director leads a committed management and program team that coordinates fieldwork, youth engagement, community dialogues, M&E, and health service linkages.
Our recent three-year NGO permit (2025 -2028) and official MOU with Tororo District Local Government allow us to operate across all 42 sub-counties a major milestone in our institutional growth.
Our Capacity to Deliver
The organization now coordinates multi-layered interventions across large geographical areas, backed by strong financial controls, qualified staff, clear data systems, and relationships with community structures. We maintain clean audit records, timely reporting, and long-standing collaboration with partners such as Plan International, CDFU, Ipas Africa Alliance, and Tororo District Local Government.
What makes it work, honestly, is the trust. Community members, VHTs, and leaders consistently describe TDYAN as approachable, grounded, and committed. That trust has opened doors especially in faith and cultural spaces, that are often difficult for civil society to access.
What We Bring to the Work
Over the last five years, TDYAN YOVANU has grown into a trusted and recognizable force in community-driven health programming in Tororo District. Our work sits where evidence meets empathy HIV prevention, sexual and reproductive health, stigma reduction, youth empowerment, and the kind of social accountability that actually moves systems.
And honestly, what makes our approach work isn’t just the activities; it’s the trust we’ve built, the partnerships that back us, and the growing network of young people, leaders, and community actors who believe in the change we’re pushing for.
Here are a few things we’re genuinely proud of:
- Eight large-scale integrated health camps, reaching over 3,000 people with HIV testing, SRH education, and referral support
- Deep partnerships with Tororo District Local Government, Plan International Uganda, CDFU, and Ipas Africa Alliance, TASO Uganda and Uganda built on reliability, clean audits, and community approval
- The 2024 AGYW SRHR camp, which reached over 300 adolescent girls and young women with mentorship, services, and safe spaces for honest dialogue
- A committed team of 7 staff and 42 SRHR champions, supported by peer educators, CHWs, and volunteers who do the daily, often invisible work that keeps young people informed and connected to care
- A strong track record in community-driven monitoring, accountability, and social advocacy, including youth parliaments, scorecards, and community dialogues that have strengthened local decision-making
- Youth-led creative advocacy radio drama, digital storytelling, theatre reaching hard-to-reach audiences and shifting mindsets in a way traditional approaches rarely manage
- A solid digital mentorship system, including WhatsApp referral groups that keep over 60 community champions connected, supervised, and supported in real time
- Large-scale mindset transformation, with VCAT training for 72 influencers and 616 mapped community actors, resulting in post-test score improvements from 35 percent to over 60 percent
- A powerful organizational mandate, backed by a three-year NGO permit (2025-2028) and a formal MOU with Tororo District Local Government, authorizing TDYAN to operate across all 42 sub-counties
- A proven ability to coordinate multi-layered interventions, demonstrated through a PAC project that reached a total of 5732 directly and 1500 indirectly reached community members with correct information on Post Abortion Care in six months and documented 700 plus PAC/SRH referrals
- Strengthened community facility linkages, leading to more adolescents and young people seeking care earlier and with more confidence
- An SRHR portfolio that consistently centers girls, young women, young people living with HIV, and underserved communities
And then there’s the Petta teenage pregnancy bylaw a project that showed what happens when community structures truly work.
Through the Teenage Pregnancy Byelaw enactment and enforcement project, TDYAN helped a subcounty move from concern to collective action:
- The byelaw was fully enacted, operationalized, and enforced, with strong backing from Petta Subcounty leadership
- Community reporting and referral pathways improved, with more caregivers, teachers, and VHTs forwarding cases of vulnerability, early marriage, or girls at risk
- Adolescent SRHR awareness increased, driven by school outreaches, dialogues, and youth-centered learning sessions
- Duty-bearer accountability strengthened, as Health Unit Management Committees, local council courts, Local Councils, and community leaders began actively monitoring service delivery and responding to SRHR-related cases
- Youth at the center, not on the sidelines through clubs, mentorship sessions, debates, and structured community dialogues
- A clear reduction in silent cases, with more communities openly discussing teenage pregnancy, responsibility, and prevention
- Improved coordination among service providers, VHTs, and community structures, leading to faster linkage of girls to health, psychosocial, and protection services
The Petta project didn’t just enforce a byelaw it built a model for how communities can use local legislation, youth engagement, and shared accountability to protect adolescent wellbeing.
Our Address
Tororo Youth Centre, Central Ward, Central Parish, Western Division, Tororo Municipality, Tororo District
P. O. Box 30002, Tororo Municipality, Tororo District – Uganda
Contact Number
+256782 580508
(Eric Okello – Executive Director)