The Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy, and Accountability (YW4A) Programme - Global

The programme aims to strengthen and diversify young women’s participation and amplify their voices to effectively influence decision-making towards gender-just laws, policies, norms, and practices related to their bodily integrity and equal participation. The programme will achieve this through 4 main outcomes: 1. Strengthening the advocacy capacity of 27 women’s rights organizations (WROs) to amplify young women’s voices in Palestine, Egypt, Kenya, and South Sudan by 2025. 2. Enhancing the leadership of 17,540 young women to effectively engage in collective action and decision-making in public, private, and civic spaces in Palestine, Egypt, Kenya, and South Sudan by 2025. 3. Transforming social norms and practices of 22 faith-based organizations (FBOs) that constrain young women’s rights in Palestine, Egypt, Kenya, and South Sudan by 2025. 4. Influence the adoption, amendment, withdrawal or effective utilisation and implementation of 18 laws and policies towards promoting young women’s rights to leadership, participation and ending SGBV in Palestine, Egypt, Kenya and South Sudan by 2025. Under the YW4A programme KIT is responsible for designing the gender-transformative outcome Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) of the YW4A programme, as well as the design and implementation of the WROs advocacy and organizational capacity assessment, design of the individual WRO/FBO capacity development plans, and a collective learning agenda. Moreover, KIT will support the design of YW4A baseline studies and support outcome monitoring and learning at mid-term and end-line of the programme. The outcome MEL system and learning mechanisms are co-created with a young women reference group in each country.