advocating for adolescent girls in latin america and africa

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

Thank you!

Questions?

www.agaliprogram.org eteitsworth@phi.org