Action for Girls and Young Women in Mozambique 

ObjectivesFund scope

Adolescence critical period where important decisions are made that shape girls’ lives. However, traditional youth programmes overlook the barriers that prevent girls and young women from thriving, much less meeting their basic needs. If fully engaged, educated, healthy, and [JP1] productive, young people can break multi-generational patterns of poverty and increase their resilience in the face of personal and social threats. But if subjected to violence, harmful practices and discrimination, or deprived of resources and services, the consequences for young girls and women almost always negatively affect their sexual and reproductive health rights.

In Mozambique, the well-being and rights of girls and young women are still at risk, which is why the Action for Girls and Young Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Mozambique Joint Programme engages national stakeholders in promoting and protecting the SRHR of girls and young women—incorporating measures from the United Nations equality agenda.

Theory of change

The programme is designed to embody a participatory approach that includes the voices and participation of girls and young women across various platforms (e.g. radio, television, social media, local community fora). Doing so encourages them to step up as mentors and community activists, and helps mobilize local and religious leaders in finding solutions to providing effective and holistic SRHR services.

Boys and men are involved in programme activities because male inclusion is paramount to updating socially-constructed gender roles that shape attitudes and behaviours. As such, they are mobilized to champion the sexual and reproductive health rights of girls and young women in their communities.

Along with more obvious outcomes, the joint programme takes into consideration the effect of economic empowerment on the agency, health, uptake of health services, and the health of young women’s children. Because a woman’s capacity to foster economic change is one of the most important factors for achieving equality between women and men, stakeholders use economic activities to address inequalities that marginalize girls and young women.

GovernanceGovernance arrangements

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee provides oversight and leadership to the programme, and also reviews the status of implementation, and ensures ministerial coordination and cooperation.

Programme Implementation Team

Responsible for coordinating reporting, knowledge management, and communication functions between implementing partners and donors. The Programme Implementation Team ensures practices and standards are aligned with those of provincial and district committees.

Administrative Agent

Funds are routed by way of a pass-through mechanism. Participating Organizations receive funds through the Administrative Agent, the Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) Office. The Administrative Agent is responsible for the receipt, administration and management of contributions from donors, disbursement of funds to Participating Organizations, and consolidation and dissemination of progress reports to donors.

Participating Organizations

Implementation of interventions is the responsibility of Participating Organizations. Each organization is programmatically and financially responsible for resources received.

Projects

Action for Girls and Young Women in Mozambique

Action for Girls and Young Women in Mozambique is currently supporting count_projects ongoing projectscount_globalInterregional and count_countries country-specific. This table shows the most recently approved ongoing projects.

All project financial information can be found in the Financials section, including delivery analysis by organization, theme and project; project financial status by country and by theme.

Action for Girls and Young Women in Mozambique

Results

The Action for Girls and Young Women programme elevates the voices of young people in promoting and protecting the sexual and reproductive health rights of girls and young women. Approaches include community and leadership development, male involvement in revising socially-constructed gender roles, economic empowerment, and the adoption of inclusive local policies.

In this section you will find the latest editions of reports that detail Fund performance and results. In most cases, results are presented according to SDG contributions, signature indicators, and Fund outcomes.

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