ORGANIZATIONAL P R O F I L E

Youth Empowerment Strategies In Developing Opportunities (YES I DO) is located at Nughutu Street, Kilakala ward,
P.O.Box 2377, Morogoro, Tanzania. The Contact Person is Dr. Bahati Richardson (President) Phone +255714736973,
E-mail: yesido-africa@hotmail.com CC: bahatirichson@yahoo.com Web page: www.yesido.or.tz

Legal Status of the Organization:

YES I DO is registered at the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children and
given a registration No. 00NGO/08266 on 27.10.2015.

Vision:
To have Children, Adolescents and Youths in Tanzania achieve their highest individual potentials; with
good health in a safe, positive and nurturing environment.

Mission:
To work in a holistic manner towards improving the quality of life of vulnerable and marginalized
Youths, Adolescents and Children in Tanzania, by empowerment through strategies that increase
access to education, healthcare and sustainable living through income generating projects
(entrepreneurship).

Objectives:
i. To educate youths on Public policy, Good Governance (democracy, participation and accountability)
and Human Rights plus preventing and countering violent extremism
ii. To advocate for a conducive business and working environment for youths
iii. To support youth engagement in agricultural value chains, business and technology as our
entrepreneurial areas
iv. To build and develop child-friendly environment for their development including operating
educational centres
v. To provide education/skills on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Family Planning and
HIV/AIDS education
vi. To resolve land conflicts, promoting land rights, grabbing and envirocare amongst youths.

Target Population:
Throughout our implementation, we target two specific groups of community members with distinct
characteristics; Youths with skills but do not have jobs, Youths with jobs but do not have the prerequisite
skills and Youths without both skills and jobs. And the other group is of people with disabilities who are
willing to or already engaged in productive economic activities. We empower these groups to support
their own communities including children and adolescents through our groups’ network model. The
youth groups we target range between 15 to 35 years of age, children and adolescent from 0-17 years of
age, meanwhile, the people with disabilities can be of any age between 0 to 35 years to date we have
mobilized Youth and Young Mothers to form and register 3400 entrepreneurial community based groups’
networks with 173,000 individual members (Female 116,897 and male 56,103).

Number Of Working Staffs:

 Regular staffs are 8 and voluntary staffs are 67 which lead to have 75 staffs (4 Senior level, 6 mid-level
and 65 field level) in our different working places/projects.

Model of Operations
The ultimate aim of YES I DO is Entrepreneurship Development (in agriculture, industry, business and
technology) through self-sufficiency of the youth community, young mothers and people with disabilities.
The staff members of YES I DO work along with these communities organized in small groups with
members ranging between 5 to 15 for youths and 5 to 20 for young mothers, these later on join at ward
level to form a network (CBO).
Each network member must join the organizational membership to deserve receiving services we offer
to our members, at no extra charges other than the annual membership subscription fee. All activities
in the respective youth communities are planned in co-ordination with the networks and implemented
through the networks with support from our staffs, local volunteers along with foreign volunteers.
Hence, the community becomes SELF- SUFFICIENT and the community entrepreneurship development
work is SUSTAINABLE. Our motto is Jenga Uwezo, Tumia Fursa, Leta Maendeleo, literally means
Empowerment, Opportunities, Development.

Geographical Areas we Operate in

Currently, YES I DO operates (with offices) in ten regions namely; Iringa, Singida, Dodoma, Mbeya,
Ruvuma, Mara, Geita, Songwe, Zanzibar and Morogoro where the head office is based.

Priority Areas of Interventions/Thematic Areas

 Education/Child rights/Girl’s Child support
 Health Promotion and Services Provision
 Economic Empowerment/Youth Groups’ Networks in agricultural value chains
 Speedy justice/ Legal Protection
 Human Rights, Gender Equality and Good Governance

 Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism

Program / Duration Project Aim Geographical Funder/ Total

project coverage Donor budget
name
Linking Small Jan 2018- To double Seven Matching $187,965
Potato Value Dec 2019 incomes of districts in 4 grant by
Chain Actors 4,500 Small regions Kilimo Trust
through Retailers and
and YES I
Collective Vendors of
Efforts (Li- round DO
SPACE) potatoes.
Public Mar 2017 Advocacy on Kilosa Actio $75,000
Expenditure -Dec 2018 Social District n Aid
Trucking Accountabilit Intern
System y Monitoring ationa
(PETS) for (SAM) l
SAM
Ward Level Jan 2016- To mobilize at 6 districts in Matching $400,000
Entrepreneurs’ Dec 2020 least 16,000 3 regions. grant by
Groups Network youths to form SALT
(WEN Project networks and International
projects &DSG