Go Girls Connect!

Go Girls Connect! is a digital adaptation of the Protect Our Youth (POY) program, funded by USAID under the DREAMS Innovations Challenge program in Eswatini. Go Girls Connect! leverages mobile-based technology to build digital competency and empower girls with critical life skills and protective assets to navigate challenging gender norms and advocate for their human rights. This life skills and assets program, delivered over mobile phones directly to girls with supporting in person monthly club sessions, is an interactive, skills-based program to build resilience and decrease risks that make girls vulnerable to school drop-out, early marriage, teen pregnancy, HIV, STIs and more. Cell-Ed adapted the POY curriculum for the Cell-Ed digital learning platform. Go Girls Connect! incorporates a digital Early Warning System for girls to self-screen being at-risk of dropping out of school, and also a digital self-screening tool to enable girls to identify themselves as victims of gender-based violence. These digital tools are linked to robust on-the-ground Response Protocols to provide the key supports and services required to keep girls in school and access post abuse services where needed.