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Introduction
She Leads is a joint programme of Plan
Geographically, She Leads focuses on East Africa
This is the first annual report and covers the period
ECPAT Netherlands (DCI-ECPAT), African Women’s
Africa (Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia) and the Middle
ment of the progress of the She Leads programme
International Netherlands, Defence for Children Development and Communication Network
(FEMNET), Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH-NL) and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).
Equal Measures 2030 is a technical partner. She
Leads brings together child rights organisations,
feminist/women’s rights organisations, and groups
(Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya), the Sahel (Mali) West East (Lebanon, Jordan). In addition to program-
ming in these countries, a considerable part of the
programming is done at Middle East and Pan-Africa regional and global level, targeting institutions and stakeholders at these levels.
led by girls and young women (GYW-led groups)
She Leads prioritizes six key strategies in achieving
and young women (GYW) on decision-making
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• Fund and resource girl-led/young feminist
and informal institutions. Working via three inter-
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• Data-driven and evidence-based advocacy
goal: central is (1) the enhancement of collec-
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and aims to increase sustained influence of girls
and the transformation of gender norms in formal related domains helps She Leads to achieve this tive action of GYW in a gender-responsive civil
society (civil society domain), (2) supported by
increased acceptance of positive social gender
norms (socio-cultural domain) and by (3) enabling meaningful participation of GYW in decision-ma-
king by political institutions (institutional domain).
success in the three domains:
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organising, collective action and activism; & research;
• Catalyse the growth and strength of social
January - December 2021. It includes a first assesstowards its objectives, and analysis of the different contexts the programme operates in. The report
includes information on the output targets for the
basket indicators of the Power of Voices Women’s
Rights and Gender Equality (WRGE) framework and the Strengthening Civil Society (SCS) framework,
and the actual results on these indicators in 2021.
Furthermore, this annual progress reports reflects on the She Leads learning agenda. The report
closes with a chapter on the She Leads cross-cut-
ting issues that include safeguarding, sustainability, inclusion and power dynamics.
movements and collective action for girls
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs granted the She
• Media influencing & advocacy;
submission date of its financial report for 2021. The
rights;
• Advocate for girls access to international
institutions and human rights mechanisms;
• Capacity strengthening support and jointlearning between civil society organisations
Leads consortium a one-month extension of the
financial and audit report will be submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs no later than June 1st, 2022.
(CSOs), girl-led groups and young feminist organisations.
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