Lack of access to accurate sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in offline and hard-to-reach communities including IDP/Refugee camps, border towns, and rural communities.
The Xari Africa Academy is a digital learning platform and SRHR repository designed to train, equip, and mobilize young people as community-based SRHR champions across Africa. It functions as the backbone of a ripple-effect model that transforms online learning into offline impact.
Theory of Change
If young people—especially those embedded in underserved communities—are given:
accurate, culturally relevant SRHR education,
practical advocacy and facilitation tools,
and community activation support,
then they can deliver trusted, relatable SRHR information and life-saving resources to women and girls who are otherwise excluded from formal health systems. Over time, this leads to increased knowledge, safer health behaviours, improved access to services, and stronger community-level ownership of reproductive health outcomes.
How It Works (Step-by-Step)
Digital Access & Learning (Online)
Youth enroll in the Xari Africa Academy through a mobile-friendly online platform.
They access simplified, self-paced SRHR training, downloadable teaching guides, animations, and advocacy toolkits.
Materials are designed to be low-bandwidth, multilingual, and usable offline, ensuring accessibility across contexts.
Youth Agency & Capacity Building
Participants are trained not just on SRHR content, but on how to teach, advocate, and mobilize within their own communities.
Emphasis is placed on peer-to-peer education, cultural sensitivity, and adapting content to local realities.
Offline Community Activation
Trained youth champions take knowledge offline—into IDP camps, refugee settlements, border towns, rural communities, schools, religious spaces, and community centers.
Using printed materials, animations on mobile devices, radio conversations, and small group sessions, they meet people where they already are.
Champions distribute essential SRHR resources such as menstrual pads, condoms, and self-testing kits, bridging both information and access gaps.
Ripple Effect & Scale
Using the “each one, reach one” model, every trains youth reaches at least 100 people in their community.
In the first EU- and Yield Hub–supported pilot, 30 youth champions across Nigeria, Ghana, and Sierra Leone reached over 3,000 people directly, with secondary ripple effects through families and peer networks.
The Academy allows this model to be replicated across countries, languages, and contexts without rebuilding infrastructure each time.
Why This Model Works
Trust-based delivery: Youth are insiders, not outsiders.
Digital + grassroots hybrid: Knowledge travels from screen to street.
Cost-effective scale: One trained youth impacts hundreds.
Sustainability: Skills stay in communities long after projects end.
The Xari Africa Academy is beyond a website but also serves as a new distribution system for SRHR knowledge and resources, designed for the most neglected populations across Africa.
