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From national laws and policies to local programmes: obstacles and opportunities in communications for adolescent girls’ empowerment in Uganda (Routledge, 2018, Chapter 5)

February 12, 2019

This chapter examines action for gender norm change within the broader institutional context in Uganda, which has relatively strong national legislative frameworks and policies to support gender equality and adolescent girls. Despite this, change on the ground is slow and in some places appears non-existent. To examine action for change in this context, the chapter considers selected communications initiatives that aim to shift discriminatory norms around adolescent girls in rural communities. The analysis is set against the backdrop of the country’s national legal, policy and programme environment for gender empowerment and adolescent girls, highlighting both the enabling aspects of progressive laws and policies along with some of the ambiguities around adolescent sexual and reproductive health rights and the reform of marriage legislation, as well as significant gaps between policy promises at national level and action on the ground.

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Filed Under: Advocacy, Children, Education, Gender, Publications (published in print and/or online), Rural Development, Social Norms Analysis, Uganda Tagged With: Adolescents, Early Marriage, Girls, SRH

Using the Community Conversation Approach to Tackle Gender Inequalities (Save the Children learning brief, 2017)

October 11, 2018

Adolescent girls in Kenya face a number of risks and vulnerabilities that can affect their health, education status, and general well-being. The Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K) is currently delivering multi-sectoral interventions, targeting violence prevention, education, health, and wealth creation to adolescent girls aged 11 to 15 in two marginalized areas of Kenya.

This learning brief is one of three, prepared during the implementation phase of the project, focusing on key areas of best practices and lessons learn. These briefs aim to share learning with specialists and civil society networks, and help inform future design and management of adolescent girls’ programmes in hard-to-reach, marginalized communities.

Community conversations are a socially transformative approach that galvanizes communities to address the underlying causes of underdevelopment and vulnerability. The approach provides a platform where a cross section of the community members including local administrators, religious leaders, parents, teachers, community health workers, young men and women, converge and reflect on the challenges faced by the girls. They further identify steps to take to resolve these challenges and draw action plans that will eventually lead to a change in attitude, values, beliefs and practices that impede adolescent girls from realizing their full potential or well-being.

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Filed Under: *INTER-PERSONAL ROUTES, Children, Gender, Kenya, Participation, Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Tagged With: Adolescents, Community Dialogue, Girls

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