MTG Signs Landmark MOU With LVCT Health to Advance Integrated Youth Services

By Deo Okoko

On 18 December 2025, Moving the Goalposts formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding with LVCT Health, marking a major milestone in MTG’s journey to deepen its impact on the lives of adolescent girls and young people.

This partnership brings together two Kenyan organizations established in 2002, united by a shared commitment to rights based, community driven, and evidence informed approaches to health, protection, and social justice. Through this collaboration, MTG and LVCT Health will work together to expand integrated youth friendly services, strengthen safe spaces and referral systems, and advance access to gender responsive SRHR, HIV, GBV, and mental health services using sport as a powerful entry point.

The MOU sets a long term collaboration framework running until 2030, with a clear focus on adolescents and young people in coastal counties and urban settings. Central to the partnership is the use of football, peer led education, male engagement, and intergenerational dialogue to transform harmful social and gender norms, while embedding strong safeguarding, youth accountability, and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse across all interventions.

Beyond service delivery, the partnership commits to joint research, evidence generation, and policy influence to strengthen mental health and protection systems at county and national levels. It also prioritizes institutional capacity strengthening to ensure both organizations can scale impact sustainably and responsibly.

For MTG, this MOU represents a strategic step forward in strengthening health system linkages, advancing safeguarding leadership, and positioning sport as a serious and effective platform for integrated mental health, SRHR, and protection work. We are proud to partner with LVCT Health in this shared vision and look forward to the collective impact this collaboration will achieve for young people across Kenya.