Joseph Ojuki

African Youth Organization, Kenya

Joseph Ojuki is a youth and gender advocate who focuses on the inclusion of youth, adolescents, and young women through Meaningful Engagement in Policy, Decision Making and Budget Commitments. Joseph has cut a niche in family planning, gender mainstreaming, adolescent and youth economic empowerment and adolescents’ youth sexual reproductive health advocacy and has contributed to the development of policies that affect adolescents and young people in Kisumu County. He has over 5 years’ worth of practical experience in designing, implementing, engaging in, monitoring and documenting youth-centric advocacy initiatives locally and national levels. Joseph also has a wealth of experience in community development work particularly around mobilization, planning, budget-advocacy and planning, climate and environmental matters and media advocacy. Joseph is also a seasoned practitioner in the entire project management cycle – a feat that he has overtime enhanced through his work with Organization of African Youth as well as different county governments, particular health ministries of Kisumu County, Nairobi County, Kakamega County and Busia County among others. Joseph Ojuki holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental science, certificate in project management, certificate in geographical information system and currently serves as the Western Region Coordinator for Organization of African Youth Kenya (OAY-K) particularly in charge of; Partnerships, Strategic Planning, Resource Mobilization and County Government Relations. He is also, a senior member of the Kisumu County CSOs’ forum in Kisumu County – an outfit that pushes young peoples’ sexual health matters with the County Government of Kisumu