Young women transforming Naratives around SRHR, GBV, and ending child marriages by promoting the realisation of right to health for young women and girls.

This commitment will be based on findings of YWCA movement between 2018 and 2020, that is aimed to support young women through individual and collective action to transform key narratives at community and country level, to positively impact policy decisions that enhance young women's sexual and reproductive health rights, mental health, combating Gender Based Violence, ending forced and child marriages. By 2030 YWCA will have supported 400 young women to identify and transform core, dominant cultural narratives found in policy debates and media platforms on young women's SRHR and mental health, and design advocacy approaches that use evidence, and communicate through aspirational story telling that emphasizes young women's right to be heard and right to bodily autonomy. We will seek to fight discrimination of women and girls in all their diversity, in both the private and public spheres and ensure that in this, no one is left behind. We will further aim to strengthen societies as a whole and promote the achievement of a number of the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10 and 16), therefore building a link between the SDGs and the ICPD program for action.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action
  To promote evidence based interventions and actions that are locally nurtured to reduce on incidences of GBV in schools and communities in areas of operation, review and introduce systems and processes that enable promotion of rights of women.