Young Women for Awareness,
Agency, Advocacy & Accountability
“Through YW4A, young women have the opportunity to take part in several activities that help young women develop a better understanding of the obstacles and problems that they face in society…I hope that we, as young women, reach a point where we are able to lead change, contribute to raising awareness of women’s issues, and train other young women who need to know and demand their rights and protect themselves,”
Wallah, 23, Ramallah, Palestine.
The YW4A Initiative’s strategic objective is to defend and expand the fulfilment of young women’s rights to dignity, bodily integrity and equal participation in decision-making, through the implementation of gender-just policies and laws in Egypt, Kenya, Palestine and South Sudan.
YW4A supports the agency and capacity building of 17,540 young women and 27 women’s rights and faith-based organisations in Egypt, Kenya, Palestine and South Sudan. The objective to enhance their individual and collective transformative actions to advocate and hold decision-makers accountable for women’s rights. This is to be achieved through four interconnected and intrinsically linked pathways.
Pathway 1
capacity of women’s
rights and faith-based
organisations to
amplify young women’s
voices.
Pathway 2
that effectively engages in
collective action and
decision-making in public,
private, and civic spaces.
Pathway 3
transformation among
faith-based organisations,
men and boys.
Pathway 4
towards promoting young
women’s rights to leadership,
participation and ending
sexual and gender-based
violence.
LATEST YW4A UPDATES
YW4A’s Partnership with the Netherlands to Fight Violence Against Women
YW4A Holds Inaugural Face-to-face Meeting
Language and its contribution to normalising SGBV: Experiences from Egypt.
Young Women Living with Disabilities Breaking Barriers through YW4A
YW4A: Promoting Positive Masculinities and Advancing Gender Equality
Young Women in Kenya Speak Out against Election-related SGBV
YW4A Facilitating Gender-transformative Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
The YW4A Initiative Kick Starts in Palestine
YWCA Palestine strengthens relationship with the Stars of Hope Society through YW4A
YWCA Palestine Participates in YW4A Advocacy Training in Egypt
YW4A ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Young Women Leadership Program on GBV is aimed at mentoring & training young women in #Mombasa …to become transformative leaders.
Ms Lilian (exchange program participant) is using her knowledge as a #YW4A TOT with @Ywcakenya SS to train #SRHR participants on Riseup #YWCALeaders
Flash back Friday 🔙Riseup and Advocacy training in Migori County. WRO @SafeFdn together with …@Ywcakenya & @equalitynow participated in a tree planting activity to commemorate the event and emphasize on environmental conservation.
#YW4A
In south Sudan, 52% of all girls are married before they reach 18 and around 1 third of all girls …are pregnant before turning 15, deprived their basic Rights, lives.
Time to EndSGBV
#YW4A
#Equalitynow
#YWCAKenya
#WoldYWCA
"We must accept the fact that things are different there is a higher need to give young women …equal access to technology however, the occupation in Palestine remains the biggest issue for this & all sorts of restrictions. "
Tamar Haddad Author & Gender, Manager at ELCJH
Listen to #YW4A conversation on Conflict, SGBV and Technology: Learnings from Young Women in Gaza.
📺Watch the recording 👉https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1163251061028333
YW4A EVENTS
THE CONSORTIUM
The programme, led by the World YWCA, is implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, by a consortium of eight core partners and 22 local women’s rights and faith-based organisations.
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equality, leadership and eliminating SGBV