Institute for Human Development
Institute for Human Development is the capacity development unit of AHIP. It comprises leadership training, Livelihood skills/vocational training, and continuing learning unit.
Leadership Training is organized and conducted for different categories of leaders: Moslem and Christian religious leaders; youth leaders, health professionals, students, traditional leaders, and married adolescents.
Training professionals and community-based health workers: Systematic training in community development and management skills is conducted for health professionals and those who supervise the operational level, health workers whose responsibility it is to mobilize communities to form committees and to support their functioning and most importantly, for the committee members.
The AHIP Livelihood Skill Training School expanded its activities to include entrepreneur skills, life skills, and critical thinking. Empowering young people with life planning and livelihood skills can help in preventing HIV among young people.
The various trades are ICT, Photography, Video coverage, tailoring, knitting, tie and dye, soap making, pomade making, typing bags and other crafts of interest, health management; home management; funds management and small business management. The center also engages in advocacy, production, and promotion of sales of the center’s products. The livelihood skill acquisition center produces bed sheets; quilts; veils, cardigans, baby shawls, shawls, and some mufflers for children, young people, and adults.
AHIP through its Institute for human development is recruiting a technical team of experts to work out a model for an NGO-government-private sector partnership and collaboration on livelihood options and job opportunities for youths in Jigawa and Kano states.
Traditional Leaders and Reproductive Health: The training of traditional leaders and their wives was one of the evolving strategies, which AHIP as a partner organization adopted.
Capacity Building
Institute for Human Development is the capacity development unit of AHIP. It comprises leadership training, Livelihood skills/vocational training, and continuing learning unit.
Leadership Training is organized and conducted for different categories of leaders: Moslem and Christian religious leaders; youth leaders, health professionals, students, traditional leaders, and married adolescents.
Training professionals and community-based health workers: Systematic training in community development and management skills is conducted for health professionals and those who supervise the operational level, health workers whose responsibility it is to mobilize communities to form committees and to support their functioning and most importantly, for the committee members.
The AHIP Livelihood Skill Training School expanded its activities to include entrepreneur skills, life skills, and critical thinking. Empowering young people with life planning and livelihood skills can help in preventing HIV among young people.
The various trades are ICT, Photography, Video coverage, tailoring, knitting, tie and dye, soap making, pomade making, typing bags and other crafts of interest, health management; home management; funds management and small business management. The center also engages in advocacy, production, and promotion of sales of the center’s products. The livelihood skill acquisition center produces bed sheets; quilts; veils, cardigans, baby shawls, shawls, and some mufflers for children, young people, and adults.
AHIP through its Institute for human development is recruiting a technical team of experts to work out a model for an NGO-government-private sector partnership and collaboration on livelihood options and job opportunities for youths in Jigawa and Kano states.
Traditional Leaders and Reproductive Health: The training of traditional leaders and their wives was one of the evolving strategies, which AHIP as a partner organization adopted.
Edutainment
AHIP uses drama or popular theaters to sensitize and educate the population on issues that are difficult to discuss, such as sexuality education, Gender equality, Gender Based Violence, early and forced marriages, and many more topics.
PROCTER and GAMBLE supported AHIP drama series (Sakaci ko Barna) transmitted on seven television stations across Northern Nigeria from 2005 to 2014 and covers about sixteen (16) states. It was also aired on DSTV for three years.
Sports for Development
The basketball team is categorized into three arms; the senior male team – called The AHIP Giants who are in the National League, the junior male – called The Rising Stars and the female team – called AHIP Queens. Some of the team members were enlisted from secondary schools when they were still young and green in sports. The members are all trained and also engaged in PHE. Further training and a series of orientations are usually organized for them on communication, leadership skills, decision-making, STDs, HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, and other health issues relating to young people. These issues learned are usually shared with fellow young people when they go to tournaments.
Over 1000 basketball players have been trained as peer health educators on Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) as part of the organization’s long-term strategy of building a critical mass of youth leaders to champion holistic healthy reproductive Health for sustainable development.
This intervention was aimed at modifying social interactions to promote health and reduce risks in specific young people’s contexts and change social norms and institutional cultures and practices that negate young people’s voice, promote leadership and influence over development policies and programs to ensure the promotion and protection of equal opportunities and rights in both the public and private spheres enhancing young people’s abilities to articulate their priorities, organize, and generate collective action to improve their livelihood options and support community development to reduce the gender-differentiated impact of poverty.
