SheLeads Project 1 Activities

Activity: Arrange introduction workshop on under the topic National and International Conventions for youth and women with emphasis on GYW rights and gender equality.

Contents of conventions, Laws and policies that address women’s right, protection from violence and harmful practices have been discussed and the implementation of these Laws and policies in Ethiopian context were questioned by young girls.

Participants on introduction workshop on national and international conventions, youth and women policy in relation to GYW rights and gender equality

Activity: Training on assertiveness, negotiation skills and other life skills to school clubs, GYW social movements and selected students.

NMWEO conducted training on assertiveness and negotiation skills. Thus, participants (female) attended and gained practical skills such as self-awareness; self-esteem and self-assertiveness were presented and exercised in self-expressing practice, Group work, discussion and storytelling

Activity: Mobilize and render training to parents, religious leader, Girls and young women and role models to take part in the process of GYW positive approach.

Discussions to promote positive gender norms conducted (i.e., indivisible labor involvement, valuing domestic women’s domestic work and sharing burden) The division of labor in Gender role, problems to share burden and transform our perspectives.

Mobilize and render training to parents, religious leader, Girls and young women and role models to take part in the process of GYW positive approach.

Activity: Render capacity building training for key community leaders, youth and women associations on social norms towards GYW.

Life skills such as self-awareness, self-esteem and self-assertiveness, skills for decision making and difficulties in decision making based on education, marriage and occupation has been discussed and presented. Conflict resolution techniques and eliminating constructed negative norms and promoting positive values were also been raised and discussed among the participants.

Activity: Awareness raising to influence informal decision makers, like traditional leaders, iddir leaders so as to facilitate the action towards inclusion of GYW

Social norms/culture and attitudes have an impact towards gender roles and perspective. The roles of community leaders and role models in combating negative norms and promoting positive ones were outlined. Thus, the participants are expected to include the GYW in decision related tasks.

Activity: Arrange discussion forum among school-teachers and parents/school-parent forum on the responsibilities and mainstreaming of the issues of GYW.

School-parent-student collaboration and interaction to realize meaningful participation of GYW and Roles of schools to equip GYW with decision making skills was presented and discussed. Local institutions and how they can be influenced by teachers, parents were also sketched. This activity aimed at improving the responsibilities and mainstreaming of the issues of GYW by influencing informal decision-makers.

Activity: Engage concerned stakeholders, signatories, club focal and other actors participate in the review meeting, present the quarter report to participants, identify the gaps/problems encountered and propose practical solutions.

School-parent-student collaborated and interacted and also meaningful participation of GYW was observed on advocacy of empowering and mainstreaming on Girls and young women (GYW).

Activity: Facilitate joint discussion among CSOs and GYW on the promotion of the efforts of girls and young women movements and addressing the empowerment of GYW in the agenda of CSOS.

63(87%) female and 9(13%) males participated as the content promotion of the efforts of girls and young women movement. Asking what empowerment means and areas of improvement identifying constraints to GYW empowerment and possible solution to eradicate these constraints.

The 72 of the GYW are those who participated in the joint discussion and their attitudes have been improved in the discussion and they got experience, knowledge and they are going to be active role players for women participation and in women activism in their school, associations and preventive committee.

The participants in the discussion presented their weaknesses and strengths in the session in form of a group discussion. Some Participants of the discussion were interviewed after the event and they said it was enlightening and very relevant. Especially the girls who were from high schools in the two Sub-cities were able to acquire motivation to pursue leadership as a career when they grow up.

Activity: Organize joint learning and experience sharing and GYW and youth-led organization discussion sessions.

52 females (65%) and 28 (35%) males participated presentation and discussion followed on GYW issues like women’s rights violation, violence in different forms, empowerment and representation and participation. During the discussion, they archived joint learning and share their experience for better representation and to get space for lauding their voice.

The 52 of the GYW are those who participated in the joint discussion and their attitudes have improved in the discussion they got experience, knowledge and they are going to be active role players for women’s participation and in women’s activism in their school, associations and preventive committee.

Activity: Conduct awareness raising training on child protection, parenting skills, male engagement to the parents, teachers, girls and young women and role models.

32 female and 8 male participants come from GYW from school, parents from school community as they are active participants in parents-teachers unions in school and role models from different sub-city women associations, schools and violence preventive committee.

Some Participants were interviewed after the event and they said it was enlightening and very relevant. Especially the parents and teachers got important clues to raise and protect the children particularly in school and related problems. They listened to the GYW representatives present their problems (schooling and the burdens of domestic work), and the notion that create inferiority on house.

Awareness raising training on child protection, parenting skills, male engagement to the parents, teachers, girls and young women and role models.

Activity: Engage volunteers in schools, project area community members or line concerned offices, to support the facilitation of the she-leads implementation.

Total of 20 participants attended the meeting from School principal, GYW representatives of six high schools, sub-city gender experts and women associations. 13 female and 7 men were participated at the event. Some Participants were interviewed after the event and they said it was enlightening and very relevant. They discussed the importance of GYW clubs, engagement of volunteers in school to protect violence and reduce and fight actions that let girls difficult to schooling and create problems.