Development Gateway International

Development Gateway International (De-GAIN) harnesses the potentials of the youth/communities to be effective advocates for development in the areas of good governance, decentralization,
education
, health and management of conflict.

The mission of De-GAIN stems from its motto, actualizing potentials of the youth through skills development. The youth are engaged in psycho-social skill training, participatory capacity building and awareness creation in good governance, decentralization, sanitation, education and health.

As an organization, De-GAIN
has
a training, research and monitoring and evaluation unit that undertakes research, monitoring and evaluation of youth/community development programmes.

De-GAINs strategy to address its established objectives revolves around the use of: Community mobilization Experiential
learning
techniques to develop youth leadership potentials. Participatory training techniques that focus on gender and total community involvement. Promoting community ownership and management of facilities. Mainstreaming gender and issues of exclusion and vulnerability