Empowering Adolescent Girls (GFC)
- P Project/Program
? Activity Status: Unknown
Key Information
Our four-year, $2 million initiative aims to strengthen grassroots organizations across Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua that meet the needs of adolescent girls and create opportunities for them to thrive. To promote gender equality and advance girls' rights and opportunities, our approach strengthens the local capacity of grassroots organizations to act as vehicles for social change, while simultaneously empowering girls as leaders and agents of their own destinies. After an extensive landscape analysis and mapping, as well as a rigorous vetting process, GFC is committed to supporting up to 20 grassroots organizations over four years. Our partners will carry out activities centered on advancing the rights and opportunities of girls within our four focus areas: education, youth empowerment, gender equity, and freedom from violence and exploitation. This initiative is grounded in our belief that effective and resilient grassroots organizations, linked with each other to foster shared learning and collective action, and informed by the experiences and voices of girls, are integral to drive transformative change in gender relations and to enhance the power of girls.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Latin America & Caribbean
Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
Activity URL
https://globalfundforchildren.org/initiatives/empowering-adolescent-girls-in-central-america/
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
Not applicable or unknown
Partner(s)
Asociación AMA; Asociación Generando; Coincidir; GOJoven Guatemala; Organización Sololateca por los Derechos de las Mujeres Jóvenes Indígenas; Women's Justice Initiative; Artemisa; GOJoven Honduras; Redes Juveniles de la MANORCHO; Un Mundo; Unidad de Desarrollo Integral de la Mujer y la Familia; Additional partners in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras will be announced in Spring 2019
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownCOVID-19 Response
UnknownGeographic Scope
Global / regionalAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Other
- Other
- Transition from school to work
Other skills
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
- Social and emotional learning
Quality
- School-related gender-based violence
Skills
- Other academic performance-related
Cross-cutting areas
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Gender equality
- Mentorship
- Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
Program participants
Target Audience(s)
Girls in school, Youth
Age
Not applicable or unknown
School Enrolment Status
All in school
School Level
Not applicable or unknown
Other populations reached
- Teachers - female
- Teachers - male
Participants include
Not applicable or unknown
Program Approaches Back to Top
Life skills education
- Gender, rights and power
- Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
- Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building
School-related gender-based violence
- Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students
Teaching
- Pre-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
- Pre-service teacher training – pedagogy general
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
- Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
- Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
- Reduced absenteeism
Cross-cutting goals
- Changed social norms
- Improved sexual and reproductive health
- Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
- Increased advocacy/civic engagement
- Increased agency and empowerment
- Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
- More equitable gender attitudes and norms
- Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
- Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS