Young Women's Academy for Conscious Change (YWA)

  • P Project/Program

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Key Information

Our Young Women's Academy (YWA) adapts our proven curriculum, providing vulnerable high school girls with the opportunity to advance their own solutions to the social issues that matter most to them. Beginning each January our regional program enables young change agents from Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan, and Kenya to promote the physical, educational, social, emotional, and financial well-being of other young women and girls in their communities - and to claim the same for themselves. Our curriculum provides participants with the opportunity to do personal growth work which deepens their sense of agency, courage, and power to act for social change, while our training provides concrete skills and the opportunity to design an individual venture to implement that change. As these new leaders go out into their communities to launch their own ideas for the first time, we offer a safe container for them to process, integrate, and learn from their experiences. We believe this represents a more transformative and comprehensive approach to community development and leadership. Graduates of our YWA tell us that they now know they have the capacity to change their world - with confidence and tools that will guide them throughout their lives.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Secondary completion

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Reducing economic barriers

  • Financial literacy training

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe and welcoming schools

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage