Empowering adolescent and young people to make informed choices
Ni Nyampinga is a locally led Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) based in Rwanda. Established in 2011, as part of Girl Effect, and registered as an independent local NGO in October 2022 and obtained legal personality in 2025, Ni Nyampinga is dedicated to promoting gender equality and empowering young people especially adolescent girls and young women.
Through gender transformative programming and social behavior change communication, Ni Nyampinga aims to provide young people, especially girls with the skills, agency, and knowledge to make informed decisions in order to reach their full potential.
Gender Transformative Programming
Ni Nyampinga has operated in Rwanda since 2011 embedded in Girl Effect, until October 2022, when it registered as an independent local organization to continue the mission of empowering young people, especially girls, giving them skills and agency to make healthy decisions about their bodies as they transition into adulthood.
Ni Nyampinga does so through gender transformative programming and social behaviour change communication by engaging girls with inspiring content that challenges harmful perceptions and gender norms rooted in social cultural beliefs, thus contributing to equal access to rights and opportunity.
Impacting Adolescent Girls and Young People
For the last 11 years, using different media in communication and face-face engagement, Ni Nyampinga has built trust and credibility and impacted adolescent girls and young people in: (a) health, education, social, economic and safety assets. Today, Ni Nyampinga envisages sustaining the gains and exploring beyond.
Vision
A community where girls and young people are empowered to make informed choices about their wellbeing, have access to economic opportunities and live a healthier life.
Mission
Empower girls and young people to be self-reliant and become agents of change.
Ni Nyampinga uses gender transformative social behaviour change communication, through a wide media ecosystem, including radio talk shows, printed magazines, in-person peer to peer engagement sessions etc, and by reaching the people around the girls too, including parents and boys
Goal
By 2028, 300,000 girls and young people in Rwanda are supported to live a healthier life, have economic safety-nets and live free from exploitation.
Empowering Young People
Core Values
Empowering
Our target audience
The programme is targeting adolescent girls and boys in school and out of school aged 10-24 (The U5, the adolescent girls, young women including teen mothers, boys
Thematic Focus areas
Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (ASRHR)
We offer information on ASRHR through SBCC to ensure adolescents (typically aged 10–24) can make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in a safe, supportive, and non-discriminatory environment.
Nutrition (with a focus on teen/young mothers and their under-five children)
Nutrition is a critical aspect of health, especially for teenage/young mothers and their children under five. These groups are among the most nutritionally vulnerable due to physiological, social, and economic factors.
Economic empowerment.
We encourage autonomy, dignity, and sustainable livelihoods. For adolescents, young mothers, and their families, economic empowerment is vital to breaking cycles of poverty, improving health outcomes (including nutrition and SRHR), and building stronger communities.
