Plan to Integrated Resilience for Girls, Women, and Youth (APIRTURKANA) is a Kenyan non-profit charitable organization. It was founded in 2004, and it was formerly known as NGITUNGA CBO. NGITUNGA is a Turkana word to mean MERE people, who in a ready challenge-domiciled environment, cannot defend themselves from any protection concern. We have defined these challenges as emergencies because they have persistently lived with the people while disrupting their socio-economic growth. Any occurrence that hinders socio economic development is an emergency. APIR defines an emergency as anything that impedes social development in the twenty-first century, including poverty, illiteracy, HIV/AIDS, conflicts, droughts, poor access to health services and rights, poor access to quality education opportunities, harmful traditional norms and practices, other diseases, poor access to social amenities, infant and young child diseases, poor access to legal services among many others.

Our programs are three-pronged in approach. (Out theory of change)

1. Equity and Equality – All our programs aim to facilitate and promote equity and equality through gender development interventions that are grounded on human rights-based approaches, core humanitarian standards, gender-mainstreamed approaches and community-led processes. We are cognizant that women’s space has to be recognized in leadership, human rights, and service delivery and promoted in community actions.
2. Participation: APIR envisions participatory community processes, and in an acceptable situation, women and youth-led. We envision supporting the all-time participation of women, girls, and youth in all community processes and interventions interventions, including democratic processes, governance, leadership, community work, and development works.
3. Resilience – While girls, women, and youth are largely victims and survivors, APIR works