Enabling Girls to Advance Gender Equity (ENGAGE)

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

In the Southern remote rural regions of Malawi, the rates of child marriage average 44%, with girls being married off as early as 10 years old. The ENGAGE initiative (Enabling Girls to Advance Gender Equity) aims to reduce the prevalence of child marriage in Southern Malawi by increasing girls’ empowerment and the advocacy impacts of civil society leaders and organizations in the Phalombe and Thyolo Districts, beginning in 2017. ENGAGE’s overall goal is to improve outcomes for girls and young women in the areas of gender equity, education, sexual and reproductive health and family planning. ENGAGE will employ a multi-pronged approach to empower vulnerable adolescent girls to increase their autonomy and decision-making agency, advance more gender equitable social norms, and build CSO capacity to hold duty-bearers accountable for ending child marriage. This approach includes the following core strategies in the Phalombe and Thyolo Districts: Girl Empowerment Intervention, Civil Society Engagement Intervention, SMS and Radio Intervention, Independent Evaluation.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Malawi

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2017 -

Partner(s)

Girls Empowerment Network (GENET) Malawi; Youth tech Health (YTH); YONESCO

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other

  • Other

Cross-cutting areas

  • Early/child marriage

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Community leaders, Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

10

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced child marriage

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

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