To achieve our mission of fostering youth’s participation, cohesion and tolerance in community development through lobbying, advocacy and capacity building, we undertake the following activities and programs.

Activities

Conducting researches and advocacies, lobbying government to provide policies that encompass all Zimbabweans youths and to provide educational assistance to youth victims of political violence and conflict victims.

Monitoring all forms of violence and human rights abuses and collecting data on conditions, practices and policies which affect the human rights, freedoms, dignity and livelihood of the youths.

Recording and documentation cases of conflict and human rights violation through dynamic and thematic ICT based human rights monitoring systems.

Training monitors and staff in all aspects of human rights and peace building works.

Referring victims of politically motivated violence to organisational places to offer relevant assistance.

Programmatic Areas

Monitoring and Evaluation

Documentation

Referrals

Research and policy

Publications

Advocacy

Capacity building

Who Are The Beneficiaries

Young men and women, between the ages of 16 and 35, in Masvingo Province

Beneficiary Needs

The following constitute the needs of the beneficiaries:

Livelihoods

Security

Capacity building

Education

Life skills

Recreation

Inclusion

Cotrad’s Response To Providing Beneficiary Needs

Strive to meet the beneficiary needs, through:

Mainstreaming gender

Livelihood support

Capacity building (training etc)

Providing safety nets

Providing Information, Education & Communication Materials

Lobbying and advocacy

Cohesion and mobilization platforms (such as peace tournaments)