Peer Pals

Peer Pals

The Peer Pals Program is a movement of adolescent girls and young women that strives for equal opportunities where:

  • Leadership is nurtured.
  • Adolescent girls and young women meaningfully participate in decision making processes.
  • Informed choices are made on education, age appropriate Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Life skills and economic  skills is development.

Under the leadership and guidance of the Program Trainers, the Peer Pals are able to engage and influence programs and policies at sub national, national, regional and global spaces.

We have over 200 Peer Pals in their diversity including, adolescent girls and young women with disabilities, affected by displacement( refugees), living in fishing communities, and slum communities.

Objectives

Nurturing Leadership; Building a movement of adolescent girls and young women

Strategic Actions

  • Increased meaningful representation of adolescent girls and young women in decision making processes.
  • Empower adolescent girls and young women to participate and take on leadership roles to build confidence
  • Support adolescent girls and young women to participate and influence local and national level budgeting to ensure resource allocation to the needs of the girl child.
  • Empower adolescent girls and young women to make forefront decisions at all levels in recognizing the critical need to reshape systems and policies.
  • Provide access to mentors to deliver an insightful understanding of equality and adolescent girls and young women taking up space in communities.
  • Track and measure change to continue the momentum in order to measure advancement.

Increased access and utilisation of Sexual and Reproductive Health information and services

  • Increased proportion of adolescent girls and young women with comprehensive knowledge on accessing and utilizing friendly, and age-appropriate Sexual Reproductive information and services.
  • Reduction in the percentage of teenage pregnancy from 25 percent to 13 percent, ending child marriage by 2022, increasing contraceptive prevalence from 35 percent to 50 percent by 2022.
  • Reduce risk and vulnerability to HIV infection. Eliminating HIV AIDS by 5 percent to 95 percent hence eradicating it by 2030.
  • Increased access to menstrual hygiene information and products by adolescent girls and young women
  • Reduction of sexual gender-based violence

 

 

 

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Keeping Girls In School

Strategic Actions

  1. Establish resource mobilization structure for example lobbying for scholarships to keep girls In School from institutions regional, national and international levels.
  2. Support and implement internship initiatives for school going adolescent girls and young women in schools
  3. Support skill development for adolescent girls and young women
  4. Carry out Community sensitization and develop the capacity of community advocates on the value of girls’ education
  5. Work with partners to design and implement interventions that ensure girls have access to education

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Engaging Cultural and Religious Institutions

    • Through a program code named WAYA – PONJI PA NYILAK. That means aunt daughter mentorship aimed to address sexual and reproductive health and rights in order to enable adolescent girls and young women to acquire necessary skills in life and make informed life decisions. We work with Nyilak and the Alur Kingdom.

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Self Defence

Knowing self-defense on the other hand can be helpful on reducing the risk of aggression and increase self-confidence.  We work with physical and physiological defense. Globally, sexual violence is prevalent particularly on adolescent girls and young women.

1)To educate adolescent girls and young women about the different types of violence against them.

2) To provide knowledge about the different tips of self-protection to keep in mind in different situations.

3) To showcase and give demonstrations on different self-defense techniques.