PTY REACh

Our Power to You(th) mission is to amplify the voices and perspectives of adolescent girls and women from underserved communities to effect change. Our initiative aims to address harmful practices, SGBV, unintended pregnancies, human rights, challenging social norms, and advocating for decision-making inclusion in the context of these issues.

Vision

To empower adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) from underserved communities to make informed choices, enjoy their sexuality, and be free from harmful practices in gender-equitable and violence-free societies.

Mission

To raise public support, advocate for improved policies and laws, and strengthen civil society to amplify young people’s voices to claim, protect and expand civic space.

  • Employing creative methods such as photo voice, participatory video, and/or documentary making. Also, applying different tools may be traditional (surveys) or innovative (polls using mobile technology, interactive games, etc.)

  • Using tried and tested self-assessment tools that will help Civil Society Organisations (CSO) to analyse their general organisational capacity as well as capacity for lobby and advocacy, Meaning Youth Participation and Engagement (MYPE) (using tools developed by CHOICE and Y-Act) and Gender Transformative Approach (GTA) (using tools developed by Rutgers and Sonke). CSOs will also develop action plans through SWOT analysis and receive capacity strengthening on Outcome Harvesting (OH) as our program's primary harvesters.

  • We are measuring and monitoring changes in social norms through national/regional opinion polls, community-level panels providing real-time responses to polling questions, and/or community-level participatory social norm assessment tools.

  • Mapping and tracking key legislation and budget arrangements using context analysis and budget tracking methods, supplemented by key informant interviews to gain insight from resisting and supportive actors.

  • Embracing digitisation and innovation to improve our PMELR processes and extract real-time data and insights to improve program outcomes, respond to contextual changes, and inform our lobbying and advocacy.

Meet the expert team.

Rose ford
Co Founder
Rose ford
Co Founder
Reena Scot
Co Founder
Reena Scot
Co Founder
Mike Hardson
Developer
Mike Hardson
Developer
Kevin martin
Designer
Kevin martin
Designer

Learn More About PTY

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