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ahadiMental Health
What we do

A system that reaches young people, and stays.

Ahadi connects young people to care, builds frontline capacity to deliver it, and integrates both into public health systems. Mental health support for young people across Africa is often hard to reach, unevenly delivered, and rarely embedded into the systems that serve them long term. Ahadi is built to address all three.

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Pillar 1

Digital Access & Delivery Infrastructure

Meeting young people where they are.

The channels, tools, and systems that make mental health support reachable, through an app, SMS, or helpline, making it easier to reach out, get screened, and be connected to the right support quickly.

Strategic value
Designed to meet young people where they are and route them to the right support, fast.
What it includes
Ahadi app and digital tools
Helpline and SMS access
AI-supported screening
Digital learning tools
Data and insight generation
Future digital innovation
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Pillar 2

Frontline Capacity & Community Delivery

Care delivered by people, not platforms.

Building the capacity of people already present in young people’s lives, teachers, community health workers, peer supporters, and healthcare workers, to identify risk early, provide first-line support, and refer and follow up effectively.

Strategic value
Creates a clear community-based care pathway, identify risk early, provide first-line support, refer appropriately, follow up.
What it includes
Training of Trainers
Referral pathways
Quality assurance
Population-level implementation
Call centre agents and peer supporters
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Pillar 3

Public Systems Integration & Ownership

Built to last within the systems that serve young people.

Working with governments and national health institutions to ensure Ahadi is not a parallel programme that disappears when funding ends. The goal is a system government increasingly owns, finances, and supervises.

Strategic value
Governments deliver. Ahadi enables. By 2030, the goal is for governments to be the primary delivery agent, with Ahadi providing the digital infrastructure, standardised protocols, data systems, and quality assurance that make that possible. Our goal is not to become the largest provider of youth mental health services. Our goal is to help government systems deliver those services better, earlier, and at scale.
What it includes
Government integration and transfer of ownership
National alignment
Financing pathways
Evidence generation
Quality standards
Scalable implementation

Together these three pillars form a model that is reachable for young people, deliverable at scale, and designed to last. First built and proven in Tanzania, it is designed to travel.

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