Edutainment and Informative Performance Arts (EIPA)
GHI uses the Edutainment, Informative and Performance Arts (EIPA) approach, which sets out to educate youths and adolescents on issues of SRHR by creating an interactive and fun environment for learning through skits, plays, poems, dance narratives and flash mobs that are in cooperated with targeted SRHR messages. EIPA puts youth and adolescents at the center of planning, organizing and implementation SRH information projects so that they develop creative and performance pieces with relevant to their local context.
Peer Education
GHI trains peer educators to use EIPA approach in empowering adolescents and youths in issues of SRH. Young people relate better with each other hence they are able to share experiences, hold discussions and debates on thematic topics. The trained peer educators then form Peer Health Teams (PHTs) that reach out to other adolescents and youths within schools and communities.
ICT for Health
GHI has embraced the use of ICT in increasing access to SRH information and services. This is done through use of various social media platforms where young people like, follow, share and comment on various thematic topics. GHI has over 10,000 followers on Facebook and Twitter.
Business and Entrepreneurship Training, Mentorship and Coaching
GHI trains young people and women in small business management skills, financial literacy, booking keeping and linking them to financial institutions. Economic empowerment enables young people to be job creators than job seekers hence increasing income levels at household levels. This is done through Village Saving and Loan Associations (VSLAs), income-generating groups and business dialogues.
Capacity Building
Building the capacity of the different civil society actors, peer educators, VHTS, partners will improve their ability to address the new trends of issues related to SRHR, HIV/AIDS affecting young people. This is purposed to create sustainability and continuity of interventions even when the projects/programs come to an end.
Advocacy
GHI uses advocacy where the community is stimulated through community-led dialogues to identify, analyze, prioritize, create solutions, plan and implement them.
