This fact sheet describes WomenStrong International’s approach to knowledge and learning, both as it relates to our own model and to the work of our 19 partner organizations seeking to prevent violence and advance the education, health, and wellbeing of urban women and girls in 16 countries. It includes how… Continue Reading
COVID-19 threatens to upend decades of progress toward gender equality. The pandemic undeniably harms the health, safety, and livelihood of millions of people globally. Yet experience from past disease outbreaks has taught us that the resulting school closures, lockdowns, and restricted access to health care will exaggerate existing gender disparity. Continue Reading
How do gender norms – society’s expectations about how men and women and boys and girls should look and behave – affect educational outcomes for girls? What does this mean for program design and evaluation? And what is gender, anyway? Those are the questions discussed in WomenStrong International’s September webinar… Continue Reading
Our Handbook was developed in partnership with WomenStrong founding members in Ghana, Kenya, India, and Haiti, based on their experiences running Girls’ Clubs for over 10,000 girls and boys. It incorporates best practices promoted by renowned youth development and life skills education specialists worldwide. Our Handbook includes a step-by-step guide… Continue Reading
