Vision for Youth (V4Y) is a youth-led organisation based in Arusha, Northern Tanzania. It is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious organisation founded in 2008. V4Y believes that through improving knowledge and opportunity youth are empowered to become new leaders and role models capable of creating the conditions for a better and more sustainable future by addressing the social, traditional, and economic difficulties of young people in East Africa’s future.

Over the course of operation since 2011, the organisation has successfully addressed youth challenges in areas of life skills, entrepreneurship and small business management, sexual reproductive health and rights, good governance and leadership via awareness creation and mass educative campaigns in schools (colleges and universities), youth groups and out of school. A team of six professionals work in collaboration with both local and foreign volunteers in promoting communitywide efforts to recognise and promote youth development and livelihood programme.

Vision for Youth is working in strong relationship with government through community development department, health and education department. The Organisation also works with youth through clubs in school youth and groups out of school having managed to reach more than 42,000 youth directly and indirectly.

Paza Sauti which loosely translates to raise your voice is the title for this project. The project promotes good governance and leadership through youth capacity building sessions on inclusion in the decision-making processes, leadership and management practices, leadership and governance structure in Tanzania, and the existing policy frameworks for the promotion of public policy development and implementation.

The project sensitises youth participation in policy planning and implementation in the village, wards and districts levels to demand justifications/explanations of decisions made by duty bearers which positively or negatively affect youth livelihoods. The project addresses this by strengthening in school and out of school youth participation in decision making so young people better understand how government operates, policies are formulated, and how to engage the prerequisite. The project also engages diverse groups of young people directly involved in policymaking and reviews on issues that concern them to ensure they are recognised as an asset and not only as of the main target.