About this area

We advance the rights, leadership and economic empowerment of women and girls while addressing harmful social norms and barriers to inclusion. Our interventions promote gender equality, prevent gender-based violence, strengthen women's leadership and livelihoods, and ensure marginalised populations have equal opportunities to participate in and benefit from development.

Our gender-transformative programmes shift harmful social norms, keep girls in school and out of early marriage, and build women's agency for peacebuilding — delivered with partners including UNICEF and USAID/OTI.

Child marriageReached 7,631 people across 30 communities
Women's leadership125 women leaders driving peacebuilding
Skills103 teen mothers & survivors trained
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Our gender work

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Evidence from this area

Gender Equality & Social Inclusion

Empowering women through networking

This report captures results from a gender-transformative activity that empowered 125 women leaders to drive peacebuilding in their communities. Delivered under USAID/OTI’s…

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Stories of change

The people behind the work

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From participant to peace ambassador

Through a women’s leadership network, one participant grew from an attendee into a recognised peace ambassador in her district. Today she convenes…

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