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 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
YWCA Palestine Participates in the “Gender Justice from a National and Religious Perspective” Conference
YW4A ON SOCIAL MEDIA
On behalf of the Twitter chat organizers; #YW4A 🇰🇪, @nikoseti_youths , @epicyouthorg , …@MombasaYACH #YWCAMombasa
Thank you🌟 for your participation & making your voice heard! 📢
Let us continue to have 0️⃣ tolerance for Gender-Based Violence & call for commitments to #EndSGBV
On #Day14 of #16Days of Activism, read the special message from #YW4A #Leader Eman from Egypt, …joining her voice to #16DaysOfActivism campaign.
Let’s co-create a better world for all!
On #Day14 of #16Days of Activism, read the special message from #YW4A Leader Eman from Egypt, …joining her voice to #16DaysOfActivism campaign.
Let’s co-create a better world for all!
ضمن حملة ال 16 يوم لمناهضة العنف ضد المرأه
…#مؤسسة_الفرح_للتنمية
#بيت_الفرح
#حملة_16_يوم_لمناهضة_العنف_ضد_المرأة
#لا_للعنف
#منصة_الحوار
#مساحة_للحوار
#كايسيد
#YW4A
#End_GBV
#Equalitynow
#IMC
#KAICIID
On #Day14 of #16Days of Activism, read the special message from #YW4A #Leader from Passainte …Beshay Egypt, joining her voice to #16DaysOfActivism campaign.
"Positive masculinity is about overcoming the societal pressures and stereotypes that say certain values and emotions are ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’."
Let’s co-create a better world for all!
#Youngwomenlead
On #Day7 of #16Days of Activism! Read the special message from #YW4A #Leader Shima from Egypt …🇪🇬 .
Let’s co-create a better world for all!
#YoungWomenLead #16DaysOfActivism
YW4A EVENTS
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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.
Read intergenerational opinions and stories of young
women and women driving social change for gender
equality, leadership and eliminating SGBV