Kedan offers a variety of Programmes.

1.Economic Empowerment Programme
2.Job Placement and Livelihood Project.
3.Health and fitness.
4.Lobbying and Advocacy Programme.
5.Capacity Development Programme.
6.Sports and recreational activities

Economic Empowerment Programme

Persons with Disabilities continue to live below the poverty line wherever they are in the society, this is so given the unequal power relations witnessed in the society and emphasized by discrimination and negative myths associated with Persons with Disabilities. With little or no access to education, discrimination on the grounds of disability in the job market, lack of access to credit facilities, infrastructural challenges, disability and the fact that majority of the disabled persons are born from poor families; a seed for extreme poverty is often sawed.
KEDAN recognizes this challenge facing persons with disabilities thus the need to develop a programme that will respond to the numerous challenges with an aim of empowering persons with disabilities majorly targeting young people with disabilities.

Programme Goal:

To economically empower youth with disabilities in realizing self-potential and reliant.

Programme Objectives.

• To create a support mechanism for young disabled progressive entrepreneurs.

• To establish a micro-credit/ small grant facility that will support YWD ventures.

• To be the leading development programme for emerging YWD`s entrepreneurs.

• To eradicate/lessen poverty levels witnessed amongst PWD`s in Kenya.

• To be the leading development programme for emerging YWD`s entrepreneurs.

Job Placement and Livelihood Project.

In partnership with Able Child Africa,KEDAN is implementing a two-year job placement and livelihood project targeting 50 disabled youth to be trained in “skills for work” where atleast 20 will be able to take part in a work placement and hopefully,5 of them will be permanently employed after their placement.
The selected young disabled people will be trained in computer skills, entrepreneurship, job searching skills, lifeskills etc.
Upon completion, this project is meant to showcase the benefit of employing disabled people given the time and input dedicated to their work thus challenging the myths surrounding the employability of people with disabilities as well as facilitating access to decent work and income to persons with disabilities.

Business Development Support Project.

With support from Able Child Africa, KEDAN is developing a business development support project that would provide a support framework for aspiring disabled entrepreneurs who have business ideas and lack capital to implement them.
Through a competitive process to be established, KEDAN will select business ideas from young disabled persons, provide trainings and links to mentors before supporting viable business ideas that have high chances to succeed.
KEDAN is still looking for partners who are interested in partnering together to ensure that the project succeeds and reaches a wider audience.
Please contact us to explore options that we can work together with you. 

Health and fitness.

Health has become a major issue among young disabled people, especially due to the growing HIV/AIDS pandemic, and drug abuse. Research has shown that a large percentage of new HIV infection occurs among the 18-35 age groups. Young disabled people are considered sexually pure and inactive thus the rise in rape cases targeting them that sometimes lead to sexually transmitted diseases. Young disabled women face a double-challenge in terms of accessing both ante-natal and post-natal care due to infrastructural challenges and unprepared ness of the attendants to serve people with disabilities
Current HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns lack specific attention to the needs of disabled youth making it inaccessible.
It is from these needs that KEDAN proposes to implement health and fitness programme that gives specific attention to the issues affecting young disabled people i.e.  HIV/AIDS awareness initiative that is accessible to both types of disabilities, reproductive health concerns, mobility and general personal health awareness.

Programme  Goal.
To create awareness on disability, health care services, fitness, rehabilitation and make the services accessible to disabled young people.

Programme Objective.
To improve access of disabled young people to health care services and information fitness, rehabilitation.
 

Lobbying and Advocacy Programme.

More than often, persons with disabilities are regarded lowly in the society and have to go through numerous hardships to gain recognition. From negative perceptions, derogative language and reference meted to them, their active participation in the development processes is severely hindered. Policy makers rarely give attention to issues affecting persons with disabilities while making policies thus jeopardizing their development making them appear as second-class citizen.
KEDAN plans to intervene through innovative public education projects targeting changing negative mindset held against people with disabilities using human rights approaches guided by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

`Programme Goal.

Rights of disabled young people in Kenya realized.

Programme Objective.
To ensure that the needs of young disabled people are mainstreamed in planning, implementation and monitoring of development ,locally and nationally.

Capacity Development Programme.

Majority of young disabled people have various talents that can be nurtured into a source of livelihood in the long run. The skills acquired by the disabled youth need constant improvement to be able to fit into the current job market. The ideas owned by this group would be beneficial to them and the community in economic terms if training and mentorship programs were availed to help sharpen them into practical ventures. There is need for continuous training, support and counseling for the disabled youth to remain effective in whatever they are doing to better their lives.

KEDAN has a potential of impacting positively into the lives of young disabled people through multi-sectoral approaches by availing opportunities that will facilitate their personal development to participate actively in national life.

In so doing, KEDAN will embrace partnerships with local grassroot organizations representing young disabled people with various types of disabilities.

Some of the proposed projects/activities under this programme are:

* Develop a leadership training curricula for young disabled people in Kenya.
* Implement a leadership training program in all sectors of the economy targeting disabled young people.
* Network and collaborate with other organizations in all sectors of the youth development field.
* Develop a support program for grassroot organization of young disabled people.
* Training of KEDAN staff
* Establish a scholarship program to support educational pursuits of needy young disabled people in colleges and Universities.
* Establish income projects to supplement resources available for KEDAN`s programmes.
* Establish an endowment fund to support KEDAN`s activities.

Programme Goal.

The capacity of young disabled people and that of their organizations to discharge their mandate more efficiently and effectively is enhanced.

Programme Objective.

To enhance the capacity of young disabled people, KEDAN and other grassroot organizations to discharge their mandate efficiently and effectively.

Sports and recreational activities.

Sports and other forms of recreational activities play an important role in the development of an individual in all spheres of life, while young disabled people face a challenge of accessing the facilities earmarked for sports and recreation.

KEDAN will work with different stakeholders to develop inclusive sporting and recreational programs that will draw active participation of young disabled people.

Programme Goal:

To enable young disabled people participate in sports and recreational activities as a tool for development.

Programme Objective:

To develop and implement sporting and recreational activities that will involve different types of disabilities.