Chepkirui Hildah
- Award:Chevening AwardAwarding Organization:Foreign and Commonwealth OfficeDate Awarded:June 6, 2019
- Award:Kericho Youth GovernorAwarding Organization:Youth Governors kenyaDate Awarded:July 24, 2018
- Award:Young African Leadership InitiativeAwarding Organization:YALI RLCDate Awarded:July 14, 2016

I established the Centre for Community Empowerment and Development (CECED) Initiative in 2013 to empower youth and women with reproductive health information. I led program dubbed Mobilizing Girls and Women for Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights through sports that benefited over 5000 girls with reproductive health information leading to many freely seeking, demanding and utilizing reproductive health services, including family planning at various hospitals. In 2017, I organized youth in developing the County Integrated Development Plan 2018-2022 to factor youth reproductive health agenda. This budgetary advocacy process resulted in factoring of youth-friendly services that will see the provision of family planning services to the Kericho youths.
In my childhood, I was sexually harassed and sex was and still a taboo subject. This coupled with rampant teenage pregnancies amongst my peers inspired me to pursue nursing in a quest to reverse the trend. In 2016, upon appointment to serve as a nursing officer, I identified the worrying trend of suicide attempts secondary to teenage pregnancies in a medical ward, many dropping out of school and others giving birth to premature babies who ended up malnourished and others dying during delivery.
I have developed a parenting skills curriculum that equips parents and caregivers to talk to their children on matters about sex including family planning. The curriculum has been used to train 1096 caregivers who take care of over 70,000 OVCs in Kenya. Evenly, I was part of the team who led in reviewing Kenya youth policy, especially on youth health with an emphasis on reproductive health in 2018 which is currently on final stages.
I will use part of funds to build the capacity of leaders from all sectors on how their investment in family planning can accelerate demographic dividend. Additionally, I will bring together organizations working on reproductive health to form an FP alliance that will further pool resources and champion family planning beyond the county level. Finally, I will utilize some funds in promoting activism via social media platforms that would create more awareness on family planning.


