- Child Rights and Disability

USADEC ensures child rights through rights provision, protection, and participation. USADEC uses Children Groups as a recreational and learning forum. Children are encouraged to open up and share with other children of the same age group their experiences in everyday life through child to child interaction. At this level, children are sensitized about their rights and issues identified at this level are taken up to the Cluster Level Association (CLAs) and other Duty Bearers.

- Integrated Early Childhood Development (ECD):

The program seeks to address the children’s needs in a holistic manner (Photo of school feeding). Through an integrated approach, USADEC empowers and supports community efforts for setting and running community based Early Child Development centres with an aim to provide all children with stimulation and care in the early years.

- Basic Education

 USADEC focuses on increasing access to basic education as well as improving the quality of education. The key components of this program include classroom construction, provision of equipment’s and instructional materials, sport and sanitation facilities, teachers training programs and training school management committees.

- Adolescent Sexual, prevention of HIV/AIDS, and Reproductive Health

The program focuses on strengthening the capacities of in and out of school youth on sexual, reproductive health, prevention of HIV Sexual Transmitted Infections, teenage pregnancies, and life skills. The trained youth are grouped in clubs which in turn sensitize the community on adolescents’ sexual reproductive health and rights.

The programs seek to empower vulnerable youth to access employment and income through rural Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Agriculture and Vocational Training (AVET), Job & Business Services (JBS), and community-based training (CBT). Based on market survey and need assessment, youth are guided to make the right choices with greater impact. They are also linked with government structures, Microfinance Institutions, People Institutions, and potential markets.

The program aims at supporting vulnerable women for increased access to nutritious food for household in the interest of a child. This is achieved through the promotion of kitchen garden, fruit trees planting and small livestock farming to fight child malnutrition.

The program aims to strengthen community capacities on the collection of domestic waste, the separation ofbiodegradable and non-degradable waste and their deposit in the appropriate places. It also aims tomobilize actors from the private sector toinvest in the recycling of domesticwaste. The program‘s activities aimis the fight against pollution and climate change as well as promotion of community hygiene.