Updated Jul 06, 2020

Young 1ove

Part of Duke Energy

http://www.young1ove.org/

Dorothy Okatch

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Our mission is to connect young Africans to proven life-saving information. We do this by massively scaling sexual health information campaigns shown in randomized trials to have major impact. We don't invent new ideas. We figure out how to scale ones that have already worked. We want to reach 1 million youth in Southern Africa by 2017.
How does your innovation work?
We deliver programsby...
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Our mission is to connect young Africans to proven life-saving information. We do this by massively scaling sexual health information campaigns shown in randomized trials to have major impact. We don't invent new ideas. We figure out how to scale ones that have already worked. We want to reach 1 million youth in Southern Africa by 2017.
How does your innovation work?
We deliver programsby youth for youth. It is not enough for proven messages to exist and be delivered. They have be deliveredright. To this end, Young 1ove deploys an army of youthful, energetic local facilitators. This approach ensures that when our messages are delivered, they are heard, credible, listened to, intenalized and remembered. Our target audience is youth, the future. We believe when it comes to sexual health, youth need to be reached out to by youth. Our delivery approach ensures that our proven messages have maximum traction and impact.
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We scale messages thatwork. We find programs that have rigorous academic evidence -- usually from randomized trials -- showing impact. We unpack the Theory of Change behind these proven programs, make the campaign culturally and locally relevant, personify results into curricula and training packages and then scale those programs massively to students throughout Southern Africa. We're not in the business of feeling good, we're in the business ofdoing good. Once we scale proven programs, we ensure we keep learning, by serving as a vehicle for for future research, such as randomized field trials. We don't prioritize what's sexy, we prioritize what works.
Registered in Botswanain Botswana

Focus Areas:

Education, Gender and Health

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Implemented In:

Botswana

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Country Implemented In
Verified Funding
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Milestone

Jul 2020
Funds RaisedVERIFIED
$1,347,420
TITLETeaching at the Right Level in Botswana
TYPEGrant
FOCUS AREAS
Basic Education
Implemented InBotswana
ORGANIZATIONU.S. Agency for International DevelopmentU.S. Agency for International Development 
as part of
 Development Innovation Ventures (DIV), U.S. Global Development LabDevelopment Innovation Ventures (DIV), U.S. Global Development Lab
Jan 2018
Funds RaisedVERIFIED
$262,500
TITLEYes She Can: Enabling Young Girls to Make Safer Sexual Choices Using an Innovative, Evidence-Based, Scalable Intervention
TYPEGrant
FOCUS AREAS
Maternal Newborn and Child Health
Implemented InBotswana
ORGANIZATIONGrand Challenges CanadaGrand Challenges Canada 
as part of
 Transition to ScaleTransition to Scale
Feb 2016
Funds RaisedVERIFIED
$167,820
FUNDINGGlobal Innovation Fund
ORGANIZATIONGlobal Innovation FundGlobal Innovation Fund
EXPAND
Date Unknown
Funds RaisedPENDING
Unknown Amount
Date Unknown
New Country Implemented In
Botswana
Date Unknown
Recognition ReceivedVERIFIED
Profiled Innovation - Silver
ORGANIZATIONResults for DevelopmentResults for Development 
as part of
 Center for Health Market InnovationsCenter for Health Market Innovations
Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) IS POWERED BY GLOBAL INNOVATION EXCHANGE, A TECH PLATFORM FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INNOVATIONS.

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