Reduce school drop-outs for young girls and vulnerable groups by 2024
Commitment description:A huge concern for the mozambican citizens is the school drop-out rate for young people, especially young girls, due to many reasons including lack of access to proper sanitation facilities, early marriages, long distances from home to school, and parents with low literacy levels who force girls to start working earlier in agriculture. We want our government to create a law that forbids girls with school age to drop-out from school, by 2024, and policies that will allow school in the whole country to have proper sanitation facilities. We also want to change mindsets in the community and highlight the importance to have girls attending school.
Therefore, we commit to organize one awareness raising campaign in every province on a yearly basis for the following 5 years. Through these campaigns, we aim at sensitizing the community about the importance of education for all by bringing up issues around gender roles in society. These campaigns will also include a clear call to leave no one behind and will serve to inform the community about human rights and equality regardless of gender, disability, race, sexual identity. We will use theatre and music to influence community members, and we will offer a space for open discussion with community and religious leaders, parents, teachers, and all other relevant actors.
Youth will also partner up with organizations and companies that can contribute towards improving menstrual health management practices among vulnerable girls by providing improved products and alternatives at low cost. We believe that if we have more girls going to school we are walking towards a nation with very talented young people and high quality professionals, entrepreneurs and leaders that will help the country grow. This commitment contributes to reach the SDG goal nr 10, 5 and 4.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionas AFRIYAN We will use theatre and music to influence community members, and we will offer a space for open discussion with community and religious leaders, parents, teachers, and all other relevant actors
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.
