Join our YW4A Consortium Lead, World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA) at the Women Deliver 2023 conference this July. World YWCA will be hosting a side event on Tuesday 18 July 2023. See details.

Event details 

Venue: Kigali Convention Center (KCC)

Room Name: MH 3.1

Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Time: 17:30 PM – 19:00 PM

Session Duration: 90 Minutes

Session concept

Young women’s leadership actively aims to disrupt traditional patriarchal structures and helps in building a powerful, supportive network of young women leaders of present and future by decolonizing leadership.

World YWCA has been unlocking young women agency through evidence, research, processes and outcomes that are owned by women and young women who live and work in communities around the world. By investing in the transformative leadership of young women, World YWCA aims to decolonize the ways young women have engaged in multiple power structures to a process involving self- realization and growth, working with others, and engaging in decision making. This is central to Goal 2035 of the YWCA movement of engaging 100 million young women to transform power structures for a world free from violence.

Through this side event, young #YWCAleaders from around the world will exchange multiple good practices that have existed in underrepresented communities for decades. These examples will emphasise on the need to challenge the interplay between language, power and privilege in a way that takes the consultation, creation and collaboration processes back to communities.

The session will have a guided intergenerational dialogue at the end with the audience to further inform the ways in which global organisations and movements can challenge the mandate of leadership, reframing who leads.

Speakers to be communicated in due course.