Enabling Girls to Advance Gender Equity (ENGAGE)
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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
Activity URL
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2017 -
Partner(s)
Girls Empowerment Network (GENET) Malawi; Youth tech Health (YTH); YONESCO
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
COVID-19 Response
UnknownGeographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Other
- Other
Cross-cutting areas
- Early/child marriage
Program participants
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