Girl Up Uganda
IMPACT STORIES FROM THE SHE LEADS PROGRAM
She Leads Programme, is a five year joint programme of Plan International Netherlands, Defence for Children-ECPAT the Netherlands (DCI-ECPAT), African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), and Terre des Hommes- Netherlands (TdH-NL), in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The She Leads programme objective is to increase sustained influence of girls and young women (GYW) in decision making processes and the transformation of gender norms in formal and informal institutions. It is an advocacy project that aims at amplifying the voices of GYW in decision-making processes at all levels. The project is built on three major domains/pillars; 1). the social norm domain, 2)CSO/GYW domain, 3) Institutional/political domain. In Uganda ,She Leads is implemented under three Alliance partners; 1)Terre des Hommes (TdH-NL), 2)Plan International, 3)FEMNET and each one of them have a network of the local based Non government organisations they are partnering with to implement the project. Under TdH-NL, Girl up initiative Uganda (GUIU) is the National level implementing partner under alongside two district implementing partners ;Multi community based development initiative (MUCOBADI) in Bugiri and Karamoja Women Umbrella organisation (KAWUO) in Karamoja.