When She Leads Everyone Succeeds - Senegal

The project promotes women and girls as agents of change to enhance their own well-being and the well-being of their communities with a view to abandon harmful practices such as child early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation in four regions of Senegal (Tambacounda Kolda Kédougou and Sédhiou). This is achieved through the Community Empowerment Program (CEP) which focuses on gender equality and human rights and offers classes on Peace and Security. Project activities include: (1) providing training to facilitators and supervisors on how to run classes and non-formal education programs in communities; (2) providing training to women and girls on human rights democracy and good governance health and hygiene as well as literacy and numeracy peaceful conflict mediation and women’s leadership and participation; (3) providing training to local governing bodies on their roles and responsibilities human rights and gender-sensitive budgeting; (4) conducting sharing and training seminars on gender-related issues with religious and local leaders; (5) holding inter-village meetings on topics such as human rights harmful practices and gender equality; (6) conducting social mobilization campaigns in communities in addition to youth forums on human rights and gender equality issues; (7) broadcasting radio programs on human rights and gender equality issues; (8) establishing Community Management Committees and Peace Committees and training them on their roles and responsibilities human rights child protection peaceful conflict mediation project management and leading social mobilization to promote gender equality; (9) sharing project results with communities local governing bodies and departmental committees on child protection throughout the project cycle; and (10) providing funds for income-generating activities for women. The project directly benefits 6 300 women and girls and 2 700 men and boys through CEP classes as well as 6 300 women an

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased respect and promotion of women and girls’ rights by communities and local governing bodies; (2) increased action to end gender-based violence and harmful practices such as female genital cutting and child early and forced marriage that have a disproportionate negative impact on women and girls; and (3) increased participation and leadership of women and girls in economic activities and peace processes in participating communities.