The Change Champions for Gender Equality and Girls’ Rights program, aims to advance gender equality through youth engagement. The program aims to empower girls and engage boys to identify and challenge harmful, negative masculinities that perpetuate discrimination and inequality.
Girls and boys as changemakers
We work with children, youth, and communities to shift the agenda towards gender equality. The programme has developed separate but interrelated journeys of change for both boys and girls. The journey for girls focuses on self-esteem, rights awareness, collective power and economic empowerment.
The journey for boys includes learning how to avoid contributing to inequality and transform discriminatory attitudes and behaviours that perpetuate imbalances of power. They have the opportunity to learn how unfair expectations and negative masculinities also affect them, and learn how they can support girls’ rights and gender equality.
As part of the Champions of Change programme, girls and boys come together to discuss their changing views on gender and social transformation and work together to find solutions for their communities.