Girls Rise Up!

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

The Girls Rise Up! Project, led by the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) of Solomon Islands in partnership with CARE International. It is supported by Australia through the Pacific Girl program, managed by Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women).  The project aims to develop the confidence, skills and knowledge of at-risk adolescent girls aged 13-18 and to establish supportive peer networks, providing girls with the opportunity to safely advocate on issues that affect them, while engaging service providers to support the needs and priorities of the girls. The project actively includes girls with disabilities. 

Rise Up!’s objectives are:

- Young women are leading positive change in their communities.

- Young women are more confident and identify as leaders in their own communities.

- Community members recognise the leadership potential of young women.

- Young women are knowledgeable and skilled, and are sharing information with their peers in the areas of Human Rights, Women’s Rights, Gender, Public Speaking, and Leadership.

These objectives are achieved through training participants in five topics: women’s rights, leadership, public speaking, human rights and gender. Rise Up! has become a widespread grassroots program largely run in rural areas and implemented by young women Peer Educators. 


Location(s)

East Asia & Pacific

Solomon Islands

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2010 -

Partner(s)

Pacific Girl Program, Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development (Pacific Women)

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 skills

  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Vocational training

Skills

  • Civics education

Cross-cutting areas

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Mentorship
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

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

Age

13 - 18

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors
  • Peer mentors

Social/gender norms change

  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms