The Adolescent Girls Movement (AGM) is a collaborative initiative between FAWE Kenya (FAWEK) and the Graça Machel Trust. This program aims at addressing the societal barriers that impede girls’ holistic development. The program seeks to create a platform to support the Pan-African movement, with an innovative, new approach towards nurturing adolescent girls in Kenya so that they are equipped to fully express their identity, claim and exercise their rights, and realize their full potential. The program has established 5 local nests with adolescents in three counties (Kiambu, Elgeyo Marakwet and Narok). 1 school (Theta Secondary School) has been targeted in Kiambu County and 2 schools in both Elgeyo Marakwet (Soy and Segoit Girls) and Narok County (Suswa and Senchura girls). The program also has a curriculum of 24 lessons that is developed by GMT for the girls to be taken through with the aim of better understanding one self and building confidence and connections with others.
The FAWEK and Graça Machel Trust collaboration is committed to long-term, systemic change by ensuring girls are not only beneficiaries but also active change makers in their communities. Through this movement, adolescent girls are positioned to lead, innovate, and transform their futures.
Objectives | Outcome/Impact | Supporting Narration |
To enable adolescent girls to exercise full agency over their lives, challenge and break through the social norms that often constrict them, thereby grow into a new generation of strong African Women. | Adolescent girls demonstrate increased self-efficacy, confidence, and ability to make informed decisions about their lives, education, health, and future | – 5 adolescent girl’s nests created with 100 girls in each nest. – The 500 girls have been taken through lesson 1 and 2; to encourage the eagles to develop a strong sense of self awareness and openness to the perspective and context of other and to support the eagles define what values and actions are important and how to live out those values in real life. |
To ensure that adolescent girls are equipped to effect change at the individual, community, national and Africa levels. | Adolescent girls acquire leadership, advocacy, and life skills enabling them to take up active roles in community structures, national dialogues, and continental platforms | – 10 girls (2 from each school have formed the national steering committee) to be able to create a common action plan to be implemented in the 5 nests. – 2 girls have joined the regional steering committee.
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To cultivate an environment that enables adolescents to influence decisions, policies, and actions that shape their well-being and future.
| Multi-stakeholder platforms and inclusive decision-making processes are strengthened to meaningfully include adolescent voices, particularly girls, in policy development and program design. | – 50 girls joined other girls from other countries in Africa to attend the Annual Jubilee forum for girls. – 3 girls have taken part in the Africa Children Summit. – 3 girls took part in the Amazon Leadership Initiative, Annual Leadership Forum for Young Female Leaders. |
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