The Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy, and Accountability South Sudan - PW1

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 main objective of pathway 1 is to strengthen the advocacy capacity of 6 women’s rights organizations (WROs) to amplify young women’s voices in South Sudan by 2025. As specific objectives this pathway envisages amplifying young women’s voices by promoting that WROs provide space in their internal organizations for young women and establish internal inclusive processes and practices in decision-making, management, and programming. Also, by working with WROs to include, represent, hear, mentor, support, and prepare young women to take part in advocacy initiatives, link them to strategic decision-making forums, and scale-up local advocacy strategies. KIT, Equality Now and the Country Leads facilitate capacity strengthening. KIT is responsible for the design and implementation of the WROs advocacy and organizational capacity assessment, the design of the individual WRO/FBO capacity development plans, and a collective learning agenda as well as the facilitation of reflective monitoring and adaptive learning approaches with the WROs.