Kiona Youth Coordinates (KYCo) is a youth-led platform that facilitates meaningful engagement of youth linkages, especially those facing various forms of vulnerabilities; Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), the poverty triggered - Key and Vulnerable Population (KVPs) and PWID and PWUD (Drug Addicts) especially those affected or living with diseases such as HIV and AIDS, TB, Malaria and Hepatitis B and C, raising their voice to be heard and be accorded equal rights in the society.

The organisation’s core mode of intervention is shaping the youth’s focus towards descent living and interpersonal skills development through capacity building programmes in order to make informed decisions that bring about social transformation in the community. The Organisation also uses active youth participation in sports and games to improve health, ensure the provision of quality education, human rights and dispensation of justice through legal aid facilities.

Kijana Makini Kamata Uongozi is a Swahili title for the project being implemented by Kiona Youth Coordinates (KYCo). Loosely transalted, the project name is a call to the youth who are focused to get in leadership spaces - (Focused youth take leadership). Emerging from diverse social-cultural and socio-economical backgrounds with different interests and talents, the youth need intergenerational capacity development through mentoring and coaching.

KYCo and TADENE realised this need especially in preparation of Tanzania's upcoming constitutional civic elections( in 2020) of local government’s governance at street and village level. The project identifies one hundred youth, empowers them through conducting a tailor-made programme for capacity development in order to attain reasonable leadership skills aka (KIMU) by facilitating the formation of respective youth councils at Ward level at Tanga town. This is used as a fundamental platform to impart knowledge and familiarise with the contents of youth-related laws and policies to determine their position and obligations that enable them to make an informed decision towards the challenges faced in civic space participation.

KYCo and TADENE use The National Youth Act No.12 of 2015 to facilitate the formation of Youth Councils at Ward level in five (5) Wards at the Tanga town and its environs. The councils enhances youth competency by promoting and popularising The National Youth Policy and other policies that affect youth while recognising the activities and initiatives undertaken by youth groups, youth-focused community-based organisations, non- governmental organisations, civil society movements among other statutory obligations.