About the Project  

Funded by the French Development Agency, the Collective Voice of Women and Girls is Youth First’s advocacy project. This project aims to improve the exercise of human rights for women and girls and gender equality in the Atsinanana Region, Brickaville, Vatomandry, and Mahanoro Districts.  

Youth First’s interventions focus on “ensuring, through civil society advocacy, that the rights of women and girls are guaranteed by national institutions.”  

What the project has achieved 

• Creation and facilitation of local and national alliances to carry out advocacy actions;  

• Identification, capacity building, and mobilization of 40 advocacy champions; 

• Eight advocacy meetings with local decision-makers;  

• Organization of one regional summit and one national advocacy summit; 

• Broadcasting of radio programs and spots on women’s political participation in decision-making bodies and on the fight against gender-based violence; 

• One digital campaign on social media.