advocating for adolescent girls in latin america and africa
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Advocating for Adolescent Girls in Latin America and Africa. AGALI. Goal Improve adolescent girls’ health, human rights, education, and socio-economic wellbeing Strategies Capacity building workshop Dissemination and outreach Seed grants and technical assistance Participants - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Advocating for Adolescent Girls
in Latin America and Africa
AGALIGoal
– Improve adolescent girls’ health, human rights, education, and socio-economic wellbeing
Strategies– Capacity building workshop– Dissemination and outreach– Seed grants and technical assistance
Participants– Civil society leaders– Policymakers– Advocates
AGALI
International Health Programs (IHP) of the Public Health Institute (PHI)
UN Foundation (UNF): $750,000/3 years
Focus countries for 2009/10• Africa: Liberia, Malawi, Ethiopia• Latin America: Guatemala (plus Honduras,
El Salvador, Nicaragua, & Mexico)
The AGALI Model
Improve adolescent girls’ health, education, and socio-economic
wellbeing
Enhance leadership and strengthen
institutional capacity
Support implementationof effective
advocacy strategies
Training DisseminationTechnical Assistance
Seed Grants
1. Leadership Training• Build leadership
capacity to advocate on behalf of adolescent girls
• Share knowledge &
best practices • Develop
advocacy strategies to advance girls’ education, health, human rights, socio-economic wellbeing
2. DisseminationParticipants build local capacity and commitment by conducting trainings for local organizations and with girls’ groups.
3. Seed Grant FundingIHP/PHI awards $10,000 grants to support
the strongest advocacy projects.
4. Technical AssistanceIHP/PHI provides TA to AGALI participants:
•Proposal development
•Project implementation
•Networking and outreach
•Institutional strengthening
2010 Plans
• June 8-14, 2010: AGALI capacity building workshop in Alexandria, Egypt
• August, 2010: Competitive RFP for advocacy project proposals
• Fall, 2010: Follow-up institutional strengthening workshop and project monitoring